I think there’s a lot of value if it’s possible to make saas as low cost as software. Software that I write and you run on your machine costs me nothing extra

I think there’s a lot of value if it’s possible to make saas as low cost as software. Software that I write and you run on your machine costs me nothing extra per user to run (assuming I provide zero user support). So I, and others, don’t mind sharing so much. That’s not the same for saas as there’s a cost for each user. It seems to me that there are more saas utilities that are needed and that’s resulting in less free software. Figuring out some kind of super low cost grid/distributed compute that doesn’t get abused to death seems important to having more software shared and thus a wonderful future state for humanity. So even basic stuff like a password manager service is costing $5/month/user and I don’t think they scales. I run hundreds of little utilities thatI accumulate over my life. I can’t afford to pay $5/month for all of them and so would like to find some way to solve this so when there are real non-zero costs per user it can be covered and scaled. (Obviously some companies and people don’t want to give their stuff away for free and wish to sell their service, more power to them, but there’s not really a way for me to offer something that needs saas functions without me standing up and running a server and that’s a very different task than just writing software, giving it away and buggering off).