We have an awesome OutSystems solution (many applications) that we've invested several years in developing.

We have currently limited deployment to Production installations where we retain the Service Center administration credentials (and do not share with the customer).

These servers are in other countries.

The key reason behind this is to protect our IP and not allow our the source/logic to be taken and replicated.

Ideally, I would like a level of IPP that signed the OSP/OAP in a way that would allow it to be published on the target environment but would not allow that target environment to view the logic in Service/Integration Studio.

I like it because that would be nicer to create a commercial product without opening the source code.

Now you can open it and do a lot a side to side duplication to copy it...

I know that in the past there were components (Event System if i'm correct), that has some code viewing restriction.

They already have this. It's the ISV licensing. Talk to OutSystems to learn more.

J.Ja

I see the need for paid components in the forge. I think that if they had some way of remunerating the people who create components and publish them in the forge would have a considerable increase in quality components. For they would be more excited to do something that might bring some kind of return.

Hi João,

Isn't that not already possible? For example Cool Data Mover from Coolprofs is a paid component that is available in the Forge.

Regards,

Daniel

Yes, but I mean when there was a component in need of license or payment, instead of the download button would be a pay button or a button with the component value only then would release the download button

That's aleardy there in form of usage license. There are couple of apps which are paid component. As mentioned by Daniel CoolProf has it's paid component in forge.

Using inspiration from other technology platforms' marketplaces, we could enable developers to monetize on their components, exploring options like freemium or subscription based models.

There should be Separate Market Place for Outsystems Component.

Hi Afaque,

Can you expand a bit more on what you mean by a separate marketplace? There's OutSystems Forge where you can upload components, what do you feel it's missing from there?

Forge is a very useful tool for developers. We can find so much good stuff there, and it feels good to help other developers by sharing our work and experience.

However, is difficult to really give a good suport, we can not dedicate our full-time work to create and maintain components on the forge.

If OutSystems would provide a way to create premium components that allow developers our companies to sell them work, then many more people would work in projects that they want to sell, creating even much more resources available on the forge and premium ones.

This would create an OutSystems market that will be good for developers companies and also for OutSystems.

My suggestion is to create a Marketplace where developers from the community can distribute and commercialize their applications built on the platform.

How It Would Work:

• Developers build their apps on the platform and publish them on the marketplace to sell
• The marketplace would operate exclusively to sell applications created by developers.