[jstummbillig]

If you care less about spending any amount of time on your product than whatever it is you emotionally get out of hosting Nextcloud instead of using Google Workspace, beware.

This is not about Nextcloud vs GW. The spooky bit is that you consider taking on additional burden with something that will not improve your product in any way, when your product is the only reason why your startup maybe exists in the future.

That's a particularly dangerous habit to pick up, because you will have 1000 chances to make meaningless decisions and distract yourself every day.

Unless you have an extremely convincing reason to do something — and if you are wondering, you don't — don't.

[bitwarders]

Also, while this decision is easy, other choices are nuanced. Kubernetes or EC2 or managed containers or Firebase? I say there is no clear winner for all use cases. But if you are spending innovation tokens (or fractions of) all the time these choices get even more muddy.