Storefront / Shop
Summary
You can plan and build an application in GitLab from just an idea, all the way through to production. Adding a Marketplace within GitLab for users to manage licensing, billing and donations/sponsorships of their applications would add further completion to the DevOps lifecycle.
Users should be able to easily visit their group and/or project settings and quickly spin up a minimal, beautiful storefront with a simple administration interface where they can license their applications, bill their own users for their applications and allow fans/advocates of their applications to sponsor them and donate to their open-source work.
Bonus: We could allow integrations to swag stores (like Printfection) or Teespring and allow folks to sell their own swag for their applications.
Audience
- FOSS Developer: https://github.com/rainglow/jetbrains
- Startups
- SMB/MM customers
- Potentially Large customers as well
This should be a lightweight version of GitLab's own billing and licensing portal, similar to Atlassian's approach to JIRA Service Desk.
Next steps
- Market fit research / discussion