Parthenon: The start of your next Symfony application

I created this after getting fed up of working at different companies and dealing with the exact same issues over and over again. Seeing the same problems needing to be solved. I've had to refactor far too many systems so that emails could be send using Sendgrid instead of Mailchimp and the other way around. Spent days and weeks making back-office admin systems scale due to usage beyond the original scope of the open-source project. Seen too many systems built upon open-source libraries that aren't designed to be replaced and end up doing things they were never meant to do. I'm fed up of having to use open source projects with no support. That even if you fix the bug yourself and send a pull request it may never get merged. That have no promises on the quality of the documentation and bugs get fixed when the maintainer has time. Which honestly, is fair. It's free and they're no right to expect anything. I'm also fed up of having to build the basics and glueing things together when I start a new project, I wanted it so that I could do a composer install and just configure the basics and have everything work together. Instead of install one package configure it, install another package and configure it. That's why with Parthenon it's not just a library but the skeleton that comes with everything need to get up and running. From Symfony configuration, docker configs, ansible scripts for deploying, to even having default application tests for the basics there. But when working in a professional setting, there should be a right to have expectations on your tools including the software you're building upon. This is why I created Parthenon. A Symfony bundle that provides everything needed to get up and running with a web application. And comes with an SLA not just on bug fixes but on documentation. One where you can have expectations about support. Parthenon will be installable via composer using packagist.com so you'll also get the extra features and performance that packagist.com provides. I've been working on this for almost a year, to ensure I built a flexible foundation I've built 3 applications on it. * https://www.easio.io - A sales pipeline tool. That use MongoDB * https://www.ootliers.com - An anomaly detection system. That uses MySQL and TimescaleDB * http://agency.parthenon.site - A demo that will allow people to play around with features including Athena, the backoffice system. That uses MySQL. I've created the pre-order package because I didn't want to automatically price all the indie developers and self-starters out of the market. And to reward the early birds with a really good price. And to make sure they're not priced out of the market after the first year, I'll grandfather all extensions of their license to the price they bought at for 3 years and even if they choose not to extend they'll still be able to use the Parthenon code they have forever. To truly reward the early birds I've come up with this pricing: * First 5 get it at £50 * Next 15 at £100 * Then the next 100 at £250 * Then if it reaches it which I doubt it will it'll be £1,000 each * After pre-order it'll be £2,500 since this really is aimed at businesses who want to scale. And you can buy via Gumroad at https://gumroad.com/l/parthenon With delivery being on September 1st. Currently, I'm polishing everything up and writing the documentation that I didn't write before because the APIs were constantly changing. Note, I'm terrible at copywriting but I kickass at code.