[trollbridge]

I 100% believe you.

The challenge is after it grows/becomes more successful, something happens that you lose control of the company, or perhaps you take some investment money (which is completely reasonable to do) and then they want you to start changing how you do things. You might not even "sell" the data - you might be forced to give it away.

[mhrnik]

Got your point. I will also request you to try web app and share some feedback that you would like to see.

[amelius]

What's the best way to protect against this?

[trollbridge]

We’re implementing our code as open source (AGPL3) and offering entirely self hosted, cloud hosted by us, or third party hosted options.

Our biggest customer wants to pay us to cloud host it for them and manage the whole thing.