[dillonnys]

Great points.

My immediate plan for reducing lock-in is to provide the option to deploy into a cloud account you manage. This has the upside of making your deployed infrastructure independent of Celest and letting you use your cloud credits.

Self-hosting is another option I'm considering, but I don't have a good sense yet of what that could look like. Any thoughts? Is spitting out a binary/Dockerfile sufficient to alleviate risk?

If I get shut down, I'll be open-sourcing all my code. And regardless, I plan to open source more and more of the platform over time.

[marcglasberg]

Committing to open-source the code (and provide detailed instructions on how to run the code) in case the company shuts down is the most important. It could be part of the service contract. I've read all parts of the Celest code which are public, and I can attest it's very well-written and easy to understand.

[dillonnys]

> It could be part of the service contract.

Agreed. I'll look into how we can add that.