For which users is it worth forking, adding features, and maintaining it is preferable? That sounds like a high amount of effort for something that is probably

For which users is it worth forking, adding features, and maintaining it is preferable? That sounds like a high amount of effort for something that is probably non-core for that business’s users (i.e. the company is not an infra/platform company). Paying money can easily be worth the time and distraction of maintenance. Similar to AWS. Many companies _could_ rent rackspace or linode or even ec2 instances and run on top. Services built on top like ECS and RDS are so much simpler to manage. That time, money, and focus goes elsewhere: building for users.