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Counterpoint: I've been a paying customer of Plausible for ~2 years, and this is totally fine. $1M ARR with an 8 person team is by no means "doing great". Assu

Counterpoint: I've been a paying customer of Plausible for ~2 years, and this is totally fine. $1M ARR with an 8 person team is by no means "doing great". Assuming 20% of income goes to overheads (such as hosting, marketing, legal, accounting), that leaves a salary of $100k for each staff member. Even if they had 0 overhead, this is still only $125k each -- that's hardly big money. Also, in reading the post - I find little to object to. They're not changing their license. They're not doing anything to prevent self-hosting. They're making it clear they're not offering support to people who don't pay (completely reasonable), and gatekeeping a few features that add value - while still giving away a huge amount for free. That's a fair deal to ensure the company remains viable, which is in everyone's best interest. In practice, this decision is unlikely to materially impact anyone. Open source is a gift, not a right, and certainly not an obligation - and from what I can see, they're not doing anything here that undermines the Open Source-ness of their offering. FWIW, I'm not sure you'd find an alternative analytics offering that's both commercially viable, and "more open" than what Plausible are offering today.

diggan 2y ago
> this is still only $125k each -- that's hardly big money. That works out to be about $10.5K (9.7K EUR) per month, pre-tax. I'm not sure where you're from/at geographically in the world, but in most places where I have lived that would be considered a large salary for just software development. Outside of the major cities in the US, wouldn't that also count as a fairly large salary?
- tssge 2y ago
  Just so you know businesses have other expenses than just salary. These can range from insurance to office space to accounting to server hosting and so on. $1M ARR is not very much when you have almost 10 employees. This would be considered rather modest. Generally the rule of thumb for me has been that each €100k ARR is an absolute minimum to hire an additional employee, thus €1M ARR would be an absolute maximum of 10 employees.
  - diggan 2y ago
    > $1M ARR is not very much when you have almost 10 employees. You're talking from the perspective of the company, I was specifically replying to the "this is still only $125k each -- that's hardly big money" part, which I thought was very clear since that's the part I quoted. Besides, parent already went through those, their back of the napkin guessestimate is after other expanses. Click the "parent" link next to the timestamp if you're having troubles finding it.

diggan 2y ago

> this is still only $125k each -- that's hardly big money. That works out to be about $10.5K (9.7K EUR) per month, pre-tax. I'm not sure where you're from/at geographically in the world, but in most places where I have lived that would be considered a large salary for just software development. Outside of the major cities in the US, wouldn't that also count as a fairly large salary?

tssge 2y ago
Just so you know businesses have other expenses than just salary. These can range from insurance to office space to accounting to server hosting and so on. $1M ARR is not very much when you have almost 10 employees. This would be considered rather modest. Generally the rule of thumb for me has been that each €100k ARR is an absolute minimum to hire an additional employee, thus €1M ARR would be an absolute maximum of 10 employees.
- diggan 2y ago
  > $1M ARR is not very much when you have almost 10 employees. You're talking from the perspective of the company, I was specifically replying to the "this is still only $125k each -- that's hardly big money" part, which I thought was very clear since that's the part I quoted. Besides, parent already went through those, their back of the napkin guessestimate is after other expanses. Click the "parent" link next to the timestamp if you're having troubles finding it.