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Churchetto – Free, open-source church management software

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13 pointszach41718 comments

1. The website doesn't really explain what the software does. No screenshots.

2. Open-source? I didn't see any links about the source.

3. You ask me to create an account, but you do not indicate what I am agreeing to in so doing. Where's the TOS?

1. I haven't bothered with that yet. Started the project 10 days ago, so I just assumed I'd find time to get to it later. 2. https://github.com/Zach417/churchetto-web 3. See #1 lol. Thanks for the advice, though! I'll add that to my list of things to do.

There are secrets in the config.json file you've committed to that repo. If this is the same code you're running on the site you should add the filename to .gitignore, git rm the file, commit those changes, and then change the secrets on the production version.

Whoops! Rookie mistake. I've removed it and changed the secrets. Thank you very much!

Did I miss something on the front page? It's a statement, three sub-statements and nothing else from what I could tell. Didn't see any photos or screenshots or a feature list. (Chrome, OSX.) If you have one crack at HN traction, you need to make sure your first hit is more informative. Sometimes it's worth waiting to submit to HN until you have a bit more prepared.

Here's an example of another guy with a web-app for managing personnel: http://www.hrpartner.io/

Really nice site. Screenshots, features, explanatory video, testimonials, etc. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.

Hey there! I am the creator of www.hrpartner.io - Thanks so much for the shout out @prawn! (I saw my Clicky stats spike from news.ycombinator.com and wondered why. :)

OP - Happy to help out and answer any questions re: marketing or web site setup etc. As other have said - screen shots seem to be a great eye draw for people (we run Heat maps on our home page too). We added the video recently, and it seems to help too, although I know we have to reduce it from 3min down to around 1min.

I've had conflicting feedback that our home page contains too much info, to our home page does not explain the breadth of features enough! To that end, we are currently testing out several variations of landing pages, and am happy to discuss if you wish.

Another source that I highly recommend is the free eBook from Salesforce called "The Saas Startup Founders Guide" - great discussion on building a marketing message. https://startups.salesforce.com/article/The-SaaS-Startup-Fou...

I've gotten plenty of great feedback from the crowd here in the past, and looks like you are seeing some of that too. As I said, happy to help out if you want to ping me directly at devan (at) hrpartner.io

Good luck with Churchetto.

From the github page:

"Our vision is ... improve the relationship between churches and young people by craftily utilizing church data ..."

From the Oxford Dictionary:

crafty: Clever at achieving one’s aims by indirect or deceitful methods

Hopefully just a poor choice of words?

Just a poor choice of words! Changed it to "expertly". Thanks for the feedback.

Not really - there's also OneBody [0].

[0]: https://church.io/

Didn't know about that. Thanks for the info! Churchetto is different, though, as it doesn't require you to install on digital ocean or an ec2.

Neither does OneBody.

> "...or install on Amazon EC2 or manually on your own server."

We took "the first" out of the title. (Standard practice in fact.)

Fair enough!

The website crashes both Safari Technology Preview and Chrome Canary. Weird!

Very weird. Thanks for letting me know!

Sorry, I wasn't clear - it happens after I log on. There are four boxes with "Loading...", which load up the CPU and this crashes Chrome and in Safari the tab stops responding and all you can do is close it.

Happens to me, too. Latest Safari 9.1

I found the issue and have resolved it. Thank you for your feedback.

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