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Sveiki! @cuu508 how do you think opensourcing selfhosted version of your product impacted your sales? Positively, negatively?
by artemonster 4y ago
Sveiki! @cuu508 how do you think opensourcing selfhosted version of your product impacted your sales? Positively, negatively?
- cuu508 4y agoI can't say definitely, but my gut feeling is positively. A. What if another operator takes the source code, and starts a competing commercial service? I've seen very few (I think 1 or 2) instances of somebody attempting a commercial product based on Healthchecks open-source code. I think that's because it's just a lot of work to run the service professionally, and then even more work to find users and get people to pay for it. B. What if a potential customer decides to self-host instead? I do see a good amount of enthusiasts and companies self-hosting their private Healthchecks instance. I'm fine with that. For one thing, the self-hosting users are all potential future clients of the hosted service. They are already familiar and happy with the product, I just need to sell the "as a service" part.