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In my opinion, analysis is wrong. I used think this way, but after spending a year in self hosted PaaS product, it was very clear that people didnt want a produ
by debarshri 4y ago
In my opinion, analysis is wrong. I used think this way, but after spending a year in self hosted PaaS product, it was very clear that people didnt want a product like this. When you pitch to a customer they love the idea but when real implementation start shaping up, you start building leaky abstraction on top of the cloud providers. The customers have to build infrastructure your way or it is high way. Terraform is already an abstraction, terraform modules starts breaking the onus is on your. Cloud providers api breaks onus is on you. Building abstraction on abstraction starts becoming leaky. So, self hosted paas like this has a smaller TAM than what you think it is.
Where is model really works is what companies like Railway and render has done. You also own the compute and storage and retail that to end users. Your potential end users would rather prefer easily to use cloud provider than going to AWS and setting up PaaS on top of that. Your potential customer has got the time and effort for that.