How Flathub.org is made

Hey, I'm Kolja (he/him)

Part of the XBMC/Kodi Team
Wrote my own language server
Got involved in flathub

Father
Musican
Developer

What is flathub.org?

Why flathub.org is important

Onboarding
Discoverability
Convenience
Generate News

Onboarding

Getting flatpak & flathub installed

Solved for many distros
Some need instructions

Documentation

Flatpak and flathub docs go hand in hand

Discoverability

SEO optimization

Not exciting for most app devs
Some apps don't have websites
Get's us mindshare
Flathub already has a good standing

Social images

Used for embedding on social platforms
Language specific

Good quality data

SEO needs good data
We have a basic feedback loop in place

Convenience

Browsing on mobile

Discover an app while on the go
Sending apps you want to try to your desktop

Search

Finding apps via search is fast
Filters

Generate News

Help people and outlets to discover new apps

Help tell success stories

Announcements

How did we do it?

Fastly
Nginx
Frontend
- next.js / react
Backend
- python
Backend Queue Service
Email Service
- Node.js
Postgres
Redis
Meilisearch

The stack

App uploaded/changed

Backend consumes latest version of Appstream Catalogue
Feed all changes into redis and meilisearch
Regenerate the Frontend pages

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    <name>AuthPass</name>
    <summary>Password Manager: Keep your passwords safe across all platforms and devices</summary>
    <developer_name>Herbert Poul</developer_name>
    <description><p>Easily and securely keep track of all your Passwords!</p><p>AuthPass is a stand alone password manager with support for the popular and proven KeePass (kdbx 3.x AND kdbx 4.x) format. Store your passwords, share across all your devices and easily find them whenever you need to login.</p><ul><li>All your passwords in one place.</li><li>Generate secure random passwords for each of your accounts.</li><li>Keep track of your accounts across the web.</li><li>App available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android Phones and Tablets, Linux and Windows.</li><li>Open multiple password files at the same time (e.g. one for work, one for personal - or even share your password files with coworkers)</li><li>Open Source available on https://github.com/authpass/authpass/</li><li>Dark Theme</li></ul><p>&lt;em&gt;=== UNDER YOUR CONTROL ===&lt;/em&gt;</p><p>AuthPass stores all your passwords in the open Keepass format, exactly where you want it. It does not send your passwords to our servers. But AuthPass supports saving to:</p><ul><li>Any local content provider from Android</li><li>Native Google Drive Integration</li><li>Native Dropbox Integation</li><li>Native WebDAV support to store in your own NextCloud or OwnCloud (or similar)</li><li>Native Microsoft OneDrive integration</li></ul><p>&lt;em&gt;=== FULL FEATURED, NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION ===&lt;/em&gt;</p><p>As an open source project there are no artificial feature restrictions, no ads and no requirement for payments.</p><p>&lt;em&gt;Contributions welcome and encouraged&lt;/em&gt; ;-) (Always looking for developers, translators, documentation writers, UI designer, etc. :) ), just join our discord channel: https://authpass.app/go/discord</p><p>&lt;em&gt;=== UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT ===&lt;/em&gt;</p><p>This is an open source project which is still under heavy development, adding features. We would love your feedback via email or on the issue tracker at https://github.com/authpass/authpass/issues/</p><p>Also join the community on our discord channel at https://authpass.app/go/discord</p></description>
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      <category>Security</category>
      <category>Utility</category>
    </categories>
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