I definitely agree with all the points here and the approach is correct, I've had the same thought before seeing project authors struggling to build cloud versi

I definitely agree with all the points here and the approach is correct, I've had the same thought before seeing project authors struggling to build cloud versions of their products. But, this raises some important questions. You're essentially outsourcing your entire company. Think about it, especially for an open source project, the main way you make money is build a cloud version of you product. If someone else is doing that for you, what are you left doing? It's a dangerous place to be in. What's to stop the owner of this service to realize he can cut you out from the middle, and just build a service out of your product himself? E.g. that's a lot of AWS's M.O. recently; they have really robust internal infrastructure to spin up managed services for any project, and they make a lot of money doing that.