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by alexopensource 971 days ago
Great insights. The hosted version functions in a more or less same way as DocuSign with an added advantage of knowing what the code is doing under the hood. We dont intend to provide root/admin privileges as its going to be a multi-tenant system at the end of the day.
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Ah, I see. A multi-tenant system makes sense, I was thinking it might be closer to managed hosting. With managed often people have root or close to it. Just make sure people understand that it’s a multi-tenant system where the customers don’t have access to do anything which would make it less secure, unless they’re using the self-hosted version. And when you grow, maybe there will be an enterprise self-hosted and/or managed hosting version where the customer needs to be trusted to provide security. That would be appropriate with some potential customers.

So that leaves the challenge of becoming a well known trusted third party, which is a challenge but doable.