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by thequailman 2383 days ago
Is there really a market for a self hosted B2C SaaS options? Would it be enough of a differentiator to drive business away from competitors?
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I think so. I literally will not look at most services unless there is an on-prem option. To the extent where I will regularly design my own solution instead of deploying something Cloud based.
How turn key do you expect the self hosted option to be? If it contains a lot of other software like SQL and Redis, would you be comfortable installing it or would you expect the option to bundle it in some kind of installer? Would you be OK with using a container, or would you want binaries?
In my dream world, all open source software would consist of a single binary and the only third party need would be a DB (preferentially Postgres or MySQL).

Must be why I like Go so much

I share your dream world. Sadly I never even come close to carrying out it out when I build a small thing for myself.
Yes. Especially in fields where privacy and/or security are required. (Think healthcare, corrections, and more)