photo licensed under CC We here at Grokability frequently ask ourselves, “Are we a software company or are we are support company?” After all, our flagship product, Snipe-IT, is open-source asset management software that anyone can download and install for free, so what are folks paying us for? (Don’t get us wrong, we’re very thankful that you do!) Of course, lots of Snipe...
“If you create a great place to work, great work takes place.”Ben Peterson, CEO, BambooHR To this day, a shocking number of big and small companies alike not only pay poor wages but maintain appalling work conditions and low ethical standards, disregarding their workers’ human rights (You know who you are!) Meanwhile, tons of studies affirm the benefits of a flexible work schedule on...
Grokability CTO Brady Wetherington gave his first conference talk (ever!) at LonghornPHP 2021 in Austin, TX in October about how the systems-sausage is made here at Grokability, and how to bootstrap a million-dollar open source SaaS business for just one dollar a customer per month. This talk gets into some of the the weeds of how our hosted platform works, some mistakes we made, some challenges...
After many years of using Gitter for real-time chat with our users, we’re pleased to announce our move over to Discord. Gitter has treated us well, but Discord gives us a little more tooling and flexibility. We’ve been running it in beta for the past few weeks, and the response has been terrific so far. We’ve even got a channel for GoodForms in case you have any implementation...
This October, we’ll be adding resources to our global fleet of systems hosting the Snipe-IT service for you, our awesome customers. With growth comes change, and hence the reason for this email.We’ll be adding new IP addresses to each of our hosting regions. In most cases that means that the IP address on which your installation lives will change. For most of our customers, this will make no...