§ 02.01
Open source
Every repository is public, MIT-licensed, and yours to fork, audit, or walk away with. Your legal team can read the license on one page.
Index 0815 — the standard spec
Standard software,
built to a higher standard.
The CRUD apps, dashboards, storefronts and internal tools your team already knows how to describe — shipped in weeks, licensed under MIT, with every line of source code in your hands on day one.
Three commitments. No footnotes,
no asterisks, no upsells.
§ 02.02
Always free
€0 in license fees — to run, to keep, to scale. No seat licenses, no usage caps. You pay only for work you commission, never for access to the software.
§ 02.03
Full transparency
Public roadmap, public issue tracker, public commit history. You will never wonder what we did, why we did it, or when we'll do the next thing.
The business case fits
on a single slide.
PROPRIETARY VENDOR 0815SOFTWARE
€12,000 / year / seat €0 forever
Months of procurement Ship in weeks
Black-box binaries Public source
Account manager calls Pull requests
Renegotiate every year It's just yours
Churn risk if they pivot Code outlives us
Risk
You own the code. If we disappear tomorrow, your software keeps running and any developer on earth can maintain it.
Speed
Standard scopes ship in 2–6 weeks. We don't reinvent CRUD — we've already built it a hundred times.
Cost
The software is free. You pay — optionally — for implementation, customisation, or an SLA. Walk away any time.
"What's the catch?"
Fair question. We'd ask it too. Here's the honest answer — the same one we give in every first call, before anyone signs anything.
Q.01
So how do you make money?
Implementation, customisation, training, and optional SLAs. The software is the free sample. Deep work on top of it is what we sell.
Q.02
Is the software any good if it's free?
The same engineers write both the free core and the paid customisation. It's in our interest for the core to be production-grade.
Q.03
What happens if you go out of business?
Nothing, for you. The code is MIT-licensed and mirrored across thousands of forks. Any developer can pick up maintenance.
Q.04
Why 'always free' and not 'freemium'?
Because 'freemium' means 'we haven't shown you the price tag yet'. We'd rather be straight with you from the start.
One platform. Standard problems, solved fast.
0815software is a platform: eleven shared backend services — identity, workflow, notifications, AI, integrations, file storage, audit, payments, search, numbering and customer master data — that let us assemble standard business software at high speed, with stable, high-quality results. The modules are what we ship on top; the platform is what makes them quick to build and boring to run.
PS-01 Identity Shared authentication and authorization — one login, one set of users and roles, strict multi-tenancy. PS-02 Workflow Engine Automation for all modules — workflows, triggers, events, scheduling, and reliable outbound webhooks. PS-03 Notification Hub Centralized notification delivery across email, SMS, push and chat, with templates and a retryable queue. PS-04 AI Platform Shared AI capabilities — chat, embeddings, RAG and prompt management behind one provider-agnostic API. PS-05 Integration Hub Centralized third-party integrations — encrypted connections, a REST/GraphQL proxy, and verified webhooks. PS-06 File Storage Shared blob store — buckets, content-addressed objects, and short-lived signed download links. PS-07 Audit Log Tamper-evident, append-only activity trail — who did what to which resource, verifiable end to end. PS-08 Payments Take and reconcile money — payment intents, refunds, an append-only ledger and verified PSP webhooks. PS-09 Search Cross-entity keyword and faceted search over every module’s records, on SQLite FTS5. PS-10 Number One authority for gapless sequence numbers — invoice numbers, order refs, offer numbers, PO refs. PS-11 Customers The party master record — one answer to “who is this customer?” across every module in a stack.
MOD-01 Customer Portal MOD-02 Admin Dashboard MOD-03 Inventory Management MOD-04 Invoice & Billing MOD-05 Employee Directory MOD-06 Procurement Tracker MOD-07 Storefront MOD-08 Reporting Suite MOD-09 Document Management MOD-10 CRM Lite MOD-11 Time Tracking MOD-12 Support Ticket System MOD-13 Offers MOD-14 Subsidies & Funds
How a 0815 project runs.
Scope
One call. You describe the thing. We tell you if it's standard.
Build
We implement against an existing 0815 module. Daily public commits.
Hand-off
Repo transferred to your org. Docs, deploy scripts, training.
Optional
Keep us on retainer for changes and SLAs — or don't. Your call.
"0815" is German for run‑of‑the‑mill. We think that's a compliment.
Most business software is not special. It's forms, tables, reports, checkout flows, permissions. Industries have been solving these problems for thirty years and the answers are well known. We don't pretend otherwise. We build the standard thing, we build it fast, and we give you the keys.
Start a
project.
Describe what you need in a paragraph. We'll reply within one business day with a candid yes, no, or here's-what-it-takes — and a fixed-price quote if the scope is standard.
No NDAs to sign. No sales funnel. No calendar invite for a 45-minute discovery call before anyone answers a single question. Write to a human, get a human back.