Forem Creators and Builders 🌱

The start of building a better system

Joe Doss on August 06, 2020

I have been heads down and knee deep in my work for the past three months since joining DEV (now Forem) and what you see here is the just the start...
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Vaidehi Joshi

I'm excited to see this come together!! It has been really fun to be a (small) part of building this architecture from the ground up :)

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Lee

Brilliant. Lot’s to learn just from this one post 😎

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Lee

Hey Joe. Is this available to deploy to AWS now?

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Joe Doss

Not yet Lee. Once we have all the kinks worked out we'll release the automation for launching Forems on AWS.

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Lee

Thanks Joe, it sounds amazing actually. Do you have a timeline?

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Joe Doss

I don't have an official timeline as of now. There is still a lot of work to be done before it is ready to be opensourced.

Soon...

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Lee

💪🏽

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volanar

The idea of forem is to combine many small communities into one global community, or does each instance of forem work independently?

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Joe Doss

From my perspective in Systems each Forem works independently right now. We have other initiatives app side that will help be a directory of communities through forem.com

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volanar

The business model of monetization will be similar to the forum discourse? Do you have plans to launch a cloud solution for customers?

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Joe Doss

I can't comment on the business model myself. Maybe @ben or @peter can expand on that more for you. I am currently working on a cloud solution or customers as my primary role at Forem.