[xtiansimon]

IMHO a solo dev is like a privately owned business, like a baker. You’re going to make choices which effect the product. Cost cutting will reflect your values. So I expect idiosyncratic policies to be in effect. Some you never encounter, because they don’t effect the product. Some you learn of later and decide as a consumer if it’s a deal breaker. Either way social pressure is on the business owner to serve customers and play fair. Failing these, you will lose customers and rightfully so.

Now here’s my thing about software. That baker, when you provide your PII and financial data to them they’re using third party service. They’re not _in_ the data, unless they want to be.

Again, this is my opinion. I feel that when you’re _in_ the data—making decisions about data flow, management, PII— there is a moral and ethical danger a solo-developer can make bad decisions about a customer’s data.

That might be shocking idea, but just think about a savings and loan run by one person. You could get George Bailey, or Knuckles the Loan Shark.