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Are there any good examples on "source available" startups, where the software can be run on-prem, can be easily modified/forked by the customer, but has a comm

Are there any good examples on "source available" startups, where the software can be run on-prem, can be easily modified/forked by the customer, but has a commerical license? (Thinking docker desktop style: free for companies with less than X customers, monthly flat license for > X employees)

extragood 3y ago
I think n8n qualifies. Also TrueNAS
pydry 3y ago
Elastic
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XCSme 3y ago
I am building one such "source available" product: https://uxwizz.com https://uxwizz.com Copied from the FAQ on the pricing page: "I have strongly considered open-sourcing UXWizz but keeping it license-based allows me to work full-time on it and improve it at a much faster pace than most of the open-source software. By being focused on the self-hosted aspect (instead of providing a "hosted" solution) my interests are aligned with yours: make UXWizz easy to install, easy to update and highly-performant on any server." People are willing to pay to self-host, especially if the product is better than the paid SaaS alternatives. In my case, positioning the product as "self-hosted first", attracts a slightly different target audience, either technical people or business people that want to use the product to start their own SaaS. There are still many basic website owners using the analytics platform on their own, for their own website, but it seems a bit harder to get those interested than the web agencies.
- tomhallett 3y ago
  Just checked out your pricing. I notice you have a one time price, which gives you a year of support/upgrades. Curious the percentage of customers who opt not to get upgrades and therefore don’t need to pay yearly.
  - XCSme 3y ago
    tl;dr: Around one quarter. Currently I am not focused on that, I first want to reach more people. Until recently, the support period would auto-renew. Many people would forget about it and ask for a refund, so I decided to make it more user-friendly and make the support renewal "on demand". I am adding the update/renewal prompt in the app soon, we'll see how it goes. As for the current number, it depends on whether the people are still using the product, most of them are. I would say around a quarter or less renew currently. Also, now, the support/updates is not exactly strictly enforced (I sometimes respond to support queries for people without a valid support period), but I am working on integrating a ticketing system that would require a valid support period, which should give more reasons to customers to renew.
jononor 3y ago
Grafana is basically that now?
- remram 3y ago
  Grafana is AGPL so no. They have a cloud service and some enterprise thing that is separate, but I don't know what they are.
  - jononor 3y ago
    Grafana Enterprise is what I was thinking of. It is basically the same stuff as the AGPL licensed Grafana but under a commercial license for those that want to modify it. Usage of Grafana Enterprise as-is is free, no license needed.
EGreg 3y ago
I actually just recorded a show about that exact topic today: https://youtu.be/5Doiuvct7t0 https://youtu.be/5Doiuvct7t0
gdprrrr 3y ago
Sonarsource (Sonarqube)

extragood 3y ago

I think n8n qualifies. Also TrueNAS

pydry 3y ago

Elastic

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XCSme 3y ago

I am building one such "source available" product: https://uxwizz.com https://uxwizz.com Copied from the FAQ on the pricing page: "I have strongly considered open-sourcing UXWizz but keeping it license-based allows me to work full-time on it and improve it at a much faster pace than most of the open-source software. By being focused on the self-hosted aspect (instead of providing a "hosted" solution) my interests are aligned with yours: make UXWizz easy to install, easy to update and highly-performant on any server." People are willing to pay to self-host, especially if the product is better than the paid SaaS alternatives. In my case, positioning the product as "self-hosted first", attracts a slightly different target audience, either technical people or business people that want to use the product to start their own SaaS. There are still many basic website owners using the analytics platform on their own, for their own website, but it seems a bit harder to get those interested than the web agencies.

tomhallett 3y ago
Just checked out your pricing. I notice you have a one time price, which gives you a year of support/upgrades. Curious the percentage of customers who opt not to get upgrades and therefore don’t need to pay yearly.
- XCSme 3y ago
  tl;dr: Around one quarter. Currently I am not focused on that, I first want to reach more people. Until recently, the support period would auto-renew. Many people would forget about it and ask for a refund, so I decided to make it more user-friendly and make the support renewal "on demand". I am adding the update/renewal prompt in the app soon, we'll see how it goes. As for the current number, it depends on whether the people are still using the product, most of them are. I would say around a quarter or less renew currently. Also, now, the support/updates is not exactly strictly enforced (I sometimes respond to support queries for people without a valid support period), but I am working on integrating a ticketing system that would require a valid support period, which should give more reasons to customers to renew.

jononor 3y ago

Grafana is basically that now?

remram 3y ago
Grafana is AGPL so no. They have a cloud service and some enterprise thing that is separate, but I don't know what they are.
- jononor 3y ago
  Grafana Enterprise is what I was thinking of. It is basically the same stuff as the AGPL licensed Grafana but under a commercial license for those that want to modify it. Usage of Grafana Enterprise as-is is free, no license needed.

EGreg 3y ago

I actually just recorded a show about that exact topic today: https://youtu.be/5Doiuvct7t0 https://youtu.be/5Doiuvct7t0

gdprrrr 3y ago

Sonarsource (Sonarqube)