Ap4ap is a ground up take on person to person connection.
- Personal friendship connection
- Personal romantic connection
- Co-founder connection
- Marketplace for products and services
It’s meant to grow organically. See: https://lobste.rs/about for the core inspiration of how we want Ap4ap to grow. We are putting our own twist on it with in person connection required and having meetups and offline activities be at the core.
- For sol-calc, the core micro service is GPLv3. You would have complete control over the branding / pricing etc of the SAAS front end (which is how most people would use it. So few would self host and they wouldn’t have paid anyway). This allows for the community to provide feedback on the algorithm. Could someone take it and launch a competing service ? Sure. Will they? Doubtful. Branding is a thing.
- sol-calc.com (solar calculator I’ve been building as I am doing a custom design / ground mount of 5kw of panels. Very early microservice development underway.
A private, invite only maker space / RF / PCB fabrication workshop. Very well equipped. Soup to nuts small (consumer)(electronics) product prototyping/fabrication and network certification study lab.
YourDreamNameHere (a business in a box to automate domain/social and back office provisioning) (would cross / up sell TeamRental.net as one of the vendor choices). Otherwise monthly affiliate revenue from SAAS vendors (quickbooks, office or gmail, etc) and a setup fee (I recommend two months of SAAS affiliate revenue as the setup fee). It’s nothing more than a domain and an idea. Should be very straightforward to build out using the KNEL micro services and a low code / no code platform (we have a few available and can spin them up if desired),
- {{PARTY1}} expects {{PARTY2}} to put in meaningful effort to generate revenue and profit.
- A 180 calendar day period is hereby alloted for development and delivery efforts by {{PARTY2}} to occur from the date of execution of this contract. If at the end of 180 days any or all of the businesses aren’t delivered or well on the way to delivery, the deal is hereby terminated.
- {{PARTY2}} is not required to provide any particular form / frequency of status updates during the period.
- {{PARTY2}} may elect to provide status updates as they see fit.
- {{PARTY2}} is welcome to utilize Known Element Enterprises Redmine instance if they wish todo so, or any other project/tasks/issue management system they may wish to utilize.
{{PARTY2}} is also welcome to use none at all. It's entirely up to {{PARTY2}} management discretion.
- {{PARTY1}} will not provide any financial resources (beyond paying for domain registration and operating the current infrastructure). Any and all expenses will paid for by {{PARTY2}} as they will be receiving majority revenue or profit share.
- Known Element Enterprises LLC (aka KNEL) (in its capacity as the Turnkey Network Systems LLC (TSYS group) management company) (see <https://community.turnsys.com/t/tsys-group-taxonomy/64> for an overview of TSYS group) will provide core IT/business infrastructure services on the same footing as it provides them to other TSYS group businesses.
This includes:
- marketing campaign service (Mautic)
- Frontend (marketing/sales) website hosting (Wordpress or Grav or both)
- Reasonable (to be determined / negotiated) business specific application runtime capacity on the KNEL coolify bizapp instance.
- business intelligence (Superset)
- ERP instance (Dolibarr)
- web analytics (Matomo)
- backups
- up/down and lightweight application monitoring (Uptime Kuma)
- Survey
- Finance planning (Firefly)
- Billing (Killbill)
- Payment Gateway (Hyperswitch)
- Project Management (Redmine)
- Customer Support (Freescout)
- API Gateway (TBD)
- Serverless runtime (TBD)
- Email (with a total of 1gb quota aggregate across all mailboxes) (for non customer , corporate use only).
- Nextcloud (with a total of 5gb quota across all users) (for non customer, corporate use only).
- Various other business specific back office or middleware functions as negotiated between KNEL and {{PARTY2}}.
This support does NOT include :
- compute
- storage
- bandwidth
- connectivity
for customer workloads or data. That will need to be provided at {{PARTY2}} full expense , ownership and responsibility.
KNEL will work with {{PARTY2}} in a prompt , professional manner to facilitate secure , necessary connections and data flow between KNEL back end systems (such as API and payment gateways and other functions listed above or otherwise negotiated) and {{PARTY2}} customer workload systems.
An exception to the provision of
- compute
- storage
- bandwidth
- connectivity
is granted for :
- RackRental.net (the franchise at Richelle)
- STL (the franchise at Richelle).
- sol-calc.com micro service (and the TSYS front end franchise at sol-calc.com).
Any other franchises of:
- RackRental
- STL
- sol-calc front ends
must provide their own:
- compute
- storage
- network
- (for RackRental and STL franchisees) rentable assets
- (for sol-calc micro service franchisees) frontend website
which would be an inherent requirement in in the franchise agreement, that the franchisees have capacity/assets to rent and would have built all that out at their own expense.
KNEL will provide franchisees use of the KNEL systems as a control/support plane (for rentals) and all franchisees must use KNEL systems exclusively.
- RackRental.net Operating Company LLC will complete the development of RackRental middleware / backend (micro services). The code will remain proprietary to RackRental.net Operating Company LLC. It will be exposed as micro services for use by franchisees).
- {{PARTY2}} and Known Element Enteprises LLC will jointly complete the deployment , necessary custom development and configuration of signup, payment etc micro services for each ancillary business as needed.
- The only thing I ask, is that TSYS Group/Redwood Group and the Non Profits get use of the stack forever at 0 charge (we would pay any actual costs like domain registration of course). (I have an on-premise computer room that will handle all of the heavy compute/storage for all of those companies, so we wouldn’t eat into your margins).
- RackRental is pretty core to suborbital, so I would retain development control over it. It’s closed source and would remain so. It has some hefty middleware and backend bits (three racks of gear). Also I have GPU cluster and that needs to remain ITAR controlled. I just don’t want to deal with marketing/sales/go-to-market.
- StartingLineProductions is pretty integral to Suborbital in terms of us using it to manage our R&D overhead. Open to discuss specifics of how that would work. Maybe some kind of multi tenant setup and we have full control of our tenant?
## Shared Responsibilities and context for {{PARTY1}} and {{PARTY2}}
- {{PARTY1}} and {{PARTY2}} will: tbd
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- {{PARTY1}} and {{PARTY2}} will: tbd
- {{PARTY1}} and {{PARTY2}} will: jointly develop the detailed business plan using the [StartupStarterPackage framework](https://git.knownelement.com/RWSCP/StartupStarterPackage).
