Wish you had a smaller or free plan for development that supports <100 or maybe even <50 people. 2 weeks are not enough for me to implement and evaluate the product properly. I am not willing to cash out $75/month for something I am not sure will be useful yet.
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#32Happy Knock customer. Tell me why I should consider Laudspeaker over Knock.
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#33Having a look at the docker-compose.yml, I don't really understand why you'd need Mongo, Postgres, Redis and Clickhouse in the same stack... Could you elaborate?
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#34Open sourcing something like this feels like marketing more than anything else. They suffer from the same "cold start" problem that social apps do. For the project to thrive, there needs to be an existing fanbase to improve and support it. Is what makes Wordpress great the fact that it's open source? No. It's the community of builders that surround it. Would anyone realistically be willing to spin this stack up in th…
Sentry is in a similar boat, it's (almost) open source, and you need a very beefy machine to even start all the necessary services, it's not a simple set up by any means if you want a comparable experience to the real thing... And still, people do get that done, and it is great that you have the self hosting option if you don't like their pricing (or if they ever go suddenly bankrupt, compromising your business).
I'm self-hosting Sentry together with Plausible Analytics. It's actually not that expensive, the VPS I'm using has 16 GB memory and 4 CPUs, and sets me back ~15€/month.
Not sure if there's enough free performance to run Loudspeaker, but I'm definitely considering it.
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#35Great work! Very will designed UI. Just wondering though, the last release is from September last year. Any specific focus of the activities outside of the core product?
Hey thanks, no main activities outside of the core product - just forgot to cut a new release on github, we did one today thanks for the reminder!
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey yes you can self-host for free. our small team just can't provide support for free users. We offer enterprise level support for self-hosting users in the paid plan, and they can use future features in our ee (enterprise) folder (which is empty right now)
I really like the 'free to use, pay for support' model. Well done and good luck!
except that means theres an perverse incentive to make things as difficult as possible so customers are incentivized to pay for support because they actually need it. And then someone comes along and offers easier setup as a product, along with competing support, for cheaper.