[TriLUG] release format for commercial project

[Aaron Thomas via TriLUG]

Sounds like a fantastic product.

Biggest question is how will my accountant get the files and will it be 
easy for her to transition

On 9/18/26 11:09 AM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
> Thanks Bill and Stephen for the great feedback.
>
> I built an AppImage and it actually works great with our embedded database
> right out of the box, so I was misinformed.
>
> It actually worked better with our build system than Flatpak, so we may
> favor AppImage instead.  I'd still like to support Flatpak for those who
> want it, as that will let us distribute on Flathub and hopefully help us
> find an audience, but it's not our top priority.
>
> We're using Postgres because we're going to offer users the option to host
> on their local network in addition to just locally on their PC, and we'd
> like to use the same DB if possible.
>
> We're hoping we will find an audience of folks who hate the new "you will
> own nothing" paradigm, and want to purchase software once and use it as
> long as it suits their needs.
>
> Now that QuickBooks is no longer offering a desktop version at all, that
> gives us an opportunity to grab some of those customers.
>
> We're calling our product "FQB", for "First Quality Books" obviously.
>
> Here's our IndieGoGo campaign if anyone is interested in following us:
> https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/fqb-accounting/first-quality-books
>
> ...and we have dark mode :)
>
> Thanks again for the feedback,
>
> -Wes
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM Stephen Wiley <swiley at swiley.net> wrote:
>
>> I've always preferred AppImage to Flatpak even when I was running Alpine
>> (I think I typically ran them in a chroot.)
>>
>> Is there a reason you went with Postgress instead of Sqlite? That's kind
>> of an intense RDBMS to be embedding.
>>
>> --Stephen
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> We're about ready to release testing versions of our Business Bookkeeping
>>> product to compete with QuickBooks.
>>>
>>> Currently I'm building a .deb, .rpm, and .pacman. (x64/amd64 only, no
>> arm64
>>> yet for win or linux, but the macOS build supports arm64 and Intel)
>>>
>>> Flatpak works, but building it is a clunky process.  Everything seems to
>>> install and work if you install it for the system, but the icon doesn't
>>> show up, and installing it with `flatpak --user` is confusing.
>>>
>>> How important is flatpak to people?  We probably won't release to Flathub
>>> even if we build a flatpak.
>>>
>>> I don't really want to do Snap, and appimage doesn't seem right for our
>> use
>>> case, since we are using an embedded Postgresql database, but I'm willing
>>> to be convinced otherwise.
>>>
>>> Building for Alpine seems like a huge pain, and it's a small user base,
>>> even by Linux standards.
>>>
>>> How much effort should I put into flatpak, and should I be considering
>>> other options besides the 3 I mentioned?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -Wes
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