[pmontra]

Did anybody try selling a service like this:

Your our own instance of Mattermost, Discord, or any well know service like those. We manage it for you on our servers, keep it running and up to date. You have admin access to the web app, not to the server. Pay per seat? You can get a db dump at any time and start it over somewhere else.

Basically it's what we get from Slack but we would really own the data. We must trust the service provider but those machines are already in somebody's else cloud, so not a big change.

[luplex]

This is the mission of element: https://ems.element.io/get-started?pk_vid=437a8cb738dee05a16...

They host a matrix.org server (Synapse) and a web client frontend (Element) on any domain. If you want to, you can also just host it yourself later.

Element is very good these days!

[pmontra]

Thanks. Looking at that registration form it seems that the domain to pick is actually a 3rd level domain, always ending in element.io.

Another requirement of my list would be "Use your own domain". That would increase portability. I didn't think about it.

[agnivade]

Mattermost has their cloud offering now!

It's basically Mattermost in Cloud with everything else remaining same. You don't get raw access to the database, but you can get an effective dump of your data any time.