[vitalikpie]

That's a great point!

For me it's a combination of two.

Personal validation - "can I build something people love?"

And financial - "can I build a successful company around it?"

So this way there is no event after which the project becomes less relevant for me. It's a process, and I expect it to be along process.

That's the reason I can't commit to open-sourcing my product at some point in time.

However at the same time there are pretty successful companies that have a trust of being "secure and privacy first": - Apple - Telegram

While at the same time there are pretty good counter examples: - PostHog - Signal