Thank you for open sourcing it! That's a really neat thing to do. Further, thanks for open sourcing it as is and not doing the whole "it's not ready to open source" feet dragging thing.
And thanks for not closing it back up if you find another payment provider!
I would actually bet that open sourcing it is the best thing you could do for it if you end up wanting to grow the business, especially with how niche it is. There are people like me who wouldn't even consider using the service with it being closed, but it being open gets my attention. It would be absolutely bad ass if the official hosting solution could:
- Let me put in a backblaze token and bucket name
- Store all my uploads in the aforementioned bucket, in a format that I could switch back and forth between open source and hosted versions
I self host a ton of stuff but I'd gladly pay $10 to $15 a year for that service
so I can easily switch to self-host in the future but don't have to manage yet-another-service. Given that the bulk of the expense would be backblaze and that would be paid for directly by me, that's almost entirely profit margin for you.
I can see really neat future ideas along this line too, like possibly even point a (to be created in the future) desktop app like Strawberry straight at the bucket and have it play/download my music!