I'm thinking about creating an #opensource competitor of #Freescout , but using #NodeJS and #TypeScript as core technologies.
For the past 4 months I've been working as a contractor on a private fork of FreeScout and I can say this: it is a horrible piece of software. It fails at every possible level: maintainability, performance, availability, data consistency, data integrity, many other security aspects... and it bewilders me that so many people are using it, and _recommending_ it.
That said, this kind of software is not "interesting" nor "attractive" _per se_ (although it can be made interesting if enough love is put into it), and I know I'd need external incentives to keep working on something like that. That's why it should be commercially viable, or at least "socially viable".
What does that mean? That I'd be happy if anyone felt any interest on the idea and wanted to work on something like that, this is no project to do alone.
I'm not really expecting anyone to be interested on something like this, but feel free to ping me in case I'm wrong :) .