[dewey]

> why the developer doesn’t simply make the hosted version a paid-for service

Because it's not always simple and being a good developer in many cases doesn't overlap with being good at marketing or business as it's not what they are passionate about. There's a good blog post about Plausible Analytics before and after the marketing co-founder joined, wasn't able to find it right now though.

[mrtksn]

Is it this one:https://plausible.io/blog/blog-post-changed-my-startup

[dewey]

Maybe it was a Tweet, it was the MRR chart annotated with “when the marketing co founder joined” or something.