[atbrakhi]

> just open source it?

I won't do that. I have learned my lesson hard way. I have had people cloning my repo and claiming publicly it's their projects.

Recently also happened with this open source project `https://www.restorephotos.io/`, someone cloned it and deployed it on another domain with ads. It went quite public as well with marketing etc.

My initial motivation behind putting paywall at some point is to just cover the cost of the tool :)

About the api keys, I was more thinking of people outside of tech world. But I will explore your point on BYO API KEYS.