[erulabs]

That’s effectively the tactic with the hardware - however - home hosting does need a SaaS imo! Between remote access (proxying ala cloudflare tunnels), backups, VPN, there are nontrivial ongoing services that need to be in place for happy home hosting.

That said - you’re not wrong at all and that’s why our service is totally optional and our free tier is quite generous.

The saas for sure made more sense when our target customers were companies.

[fragmede]

The UX for a non-technical user to setup a port forwards is a total non starter, but self-hosted remote access and VPN are well covered by Tailscale + Tailscale Funnel these days. Backups for data is an actual service that people pay (and could get paid) for.