NEO Auth UI is looking smoooth π«
NEO is in the final stages of refinement, tweaking the UI, polishing the edges. It's going to cause a small scale revolution in the UNAverse, of the very best kind.
In the near future we will have very limited bandwidth for creating your customised UNA solution built on React (think fully featured Native Apps for less than $40K) if you've got a project and a budget, send me a DM, we can make magic happen.
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Hi Mark,
The UI truly looks great, congratulations to the team for the excellent work.
However, this post brings a lot of confusion and Iβd really appreciate some clarification.
Weβve been waiting for the release of the NEO application for almost two years. It was officially stated even by Andrei Iasco himself in this video that NEO would become available in 2024.
At the time, Andrei replied to my comment clearly:
"It will be open sourced soon β we have just rebuilt it to use the new App Router in NextJS part and adding some missing features for publishing (a new editor). We will always be open source."
But nearly two years have passed, and thereβs still no public repository, no visible CID line, and no trace of NEO on GitHub.
It was also previously announced that NEO would be released together with UNA version 14 and Spacenook, which are both already available. To be fair, Iβm not entirely certain about that but I remember one of your earlier comments mentioning a release with UNA 14.1. However, the only version currently in development on GitHub is 15.0.0-A1 and over, and thereβs no sign of a 14.1 release.
Someone else in the community also mentioned a possible connection with UNA Spacenook 14, though I canβt confirm that either.
Yet NEO is still missing from the Marketplace even for Premium users. Worse, thereβs no sign of it on GitHub, and no clear communication about its current status, raising concerns that it may no longer open-source.
In this post, you mention building custom React-based UNA apps for up to 40k. That leads to the question many of us are now asking:
Will NEO which was promised to the community still be released as a downloadable module for Premium users, or has it been turned into a closed, only product?
A clear and honest update would be highly appreciated. Many of us supported UNA with the expectation that NEO would be a part of the Premium experience. Thank you!
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Sounds great! But please would you mind giving us at least an ETA? We are all waiting for NEO. Thanks.
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Has it been discussed as far as development as to cost for ongoing maintenance and enhancements? Apps need to keep up with OS improvements and such. As someone who has been deploying apps since 2012, while the initial release is exciting, users often discover bugs that developers did not root out in beta. Is such maintenance included in the flat rate?
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Of course, I donβt dispute the price charged for personalized support it comes with a cost, and custom configurations can be extremely expensive. Every company has the right to set its own prices for custom development. However, open source applications are typically made available for developers to download, test, and contribute to. Thatβs the core principle on which open source communities operate.
In this case, there is no download link or public repository provided for the script that is claimed to be open source. Any open source project can be shared with a development tag (dev), which does not guarantee full functionality or official support and thatβs perfectly acceptable. Still, experienced developers could provide valuable feedback that might significantly accelerate the path to a stable production version.
I am confident that many in the community have the technical expertise to contribute meaningfully, just as they do with countless other open source projects.
Moreover, although it has been promised for over two years that this project would become open source, that has yet to happen. You claim the script is functional and that production-grade websites can already be built with it and that may very well be true. But from the outside, it seems that the open source community and especially the premium community that actively supports UNA is being completely ignored when it comes to participating in testing, development, and early access to the dev code.
As a result, what it looks like to us the users is that UNA has effectively evolved into a closed-source system, no longer offering full access to the source code, while the applications built on top of it are being developed and sold without meaningful involvement from the community that once actively supported it.
As an example, here is a truly open source script provided under a dev tag: https://github.com/kabballa/dragonflydb-cluster. Anyone with the necessary skills can freely download and use it. For those who need help, I offer personalized implementation support starting from $10K and up but the code itself remains open source and accessible.
Thatβs how open source works: you share the code, and you monetize your expertise, not access. I donβt provide free support, but I donβt hide the code either.
But in the case of UNA, users are charged sometimes significantly yet the source code is not provided. Thatβs a paradox for something still claimed to be open source. You canβt call a product open source if thereβs no access to the source code. Open source means transparency and collaboration, even if monetization is built around services and support.
I would like to ask if itβs possible to gain access to the NEO source code. I donβt require any technical support, nor do I expect it to be stable I understand it's still under development. My only intention is to explore it, test it, and potentially contribute.
My website is still in development and I donβt plan to launch it anytime soon, but it would be helpful to get familiar with NEO in case I decide to use it in the future.
Best regards,
