There are a number of church presentation systems that integrate with planning center to get data, like ProPresenter, EasyWorship, etc. You'd need to get them to update their software to support your system as well. The easy way for you to do that is to clone the planning center API worts and all, which means you're probably just building a planning center clone.
churchapps.org is competing in this space with open source software and the price of free for their hosted versions. I don't know what their adoption rate is.
The switching costs are large in terms of time and effort for small churches. It's often one or two persons leading the charge to switch. They may not fully understand how every person interacts with the system, but they would need to set up the new system and do a trial run, likely in parallel with the existing system. Then train staff and volunteers how to use their part of the system.
> pretty opinionated, geared toward quick setup and intelligent defaults
This doesn't sound like it would fit the reality of the needs of small churches
> Do you think there's a need for something like this, or is the market already too crowded?
It sounds uninspiring, do you have a passion to market your services to churches after you've built it?
This kind of sounds like a nightmare to build out for what I'd expect would be very small license fees. It can't fail so it has to be reliable and fast even though many of your services will only be used 2-3 times a week all at the same time, you'll be working weekends & late Wednesday nights forever, and you'll learn that many churches are using a Microsoft Works template from 1998 to print things on a LaserJet from 2002 - tough customers to claim as your own.
There are a number of church presentation systems that integrate with planning center to get data, like ProPresenter, EasyWorship, etc. You'd need to get them to update their software to support your system as well. The easy way for you to do that is to clone the planning center API worts and all, which means you're probably just building a planning center clone.
churchapps.org is competing in this space with open source software and the price of free for their hosted versions. I don't know what their adoption rate is.
The switching costs are large in terms of time and effort for small churches. It's often one or two persons leading the charge to switch. They may not fully understand how every person interacts with the system, but they would need to set up the new system and do a trial run, likely in parallel with the existing system. Then train staff and volunteers how to use their part of the system.
> pretty opinionated, geared toward quick setup and intelligent defaults
This doesn't sound like it would fit the reality of the needs of small churches
> Do you think there's a need for something like this, or is the market already too crowded?
It sounds uninspiring, do you have a passion to market your services to churches after you've built it?
This kind of sounds like a nightmare to build out for what I'd expect would be very small license fees. It can't fail so it has to be reliable and fast even though many of your services will only be used 2-3 times a week all at the same time, you'll be working weekends & late Wednesday nights forever, and you'll learn that many churches are using a Microsoft Works template from 1998 to print things on a LaserJet from 2002 - tough customers to claim as your own.