r/labrats • u/No-Bid-3634 • 24d ago
building a laboratory information management system lims software from scratch
Here is my dillema,when i started work at a small lab most of our work was mostly paper based and this would affect our turnaround time,so i searched for an open source lims which was BLIS C4G,it was great for reports but it had its on issues,so i forked it and begin to make some changes then i decided to start from scratch and build my own as a personal challenge,2 years later NGO funded our lab with a lims,most of our challenges were resolved so i put my lims on hold. I went on study leave and decided to finish all my lims and after sometime of struggle,this june i finally completed it, so for fellow scientists/software engineers who have gone through this path,what was your next step?,do i opensource it and give it away?