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b0bben | 11 months ago

thx for the kind words!

to your (awesome) questions: right now it's centrally managed. it's just easier to build this way and use existing services. i use own apis, firebase and livekit.

at some point i'd LOVE to work on this full-time and live off of it, that's my end-goal.

everything is doable, but it would/will take work, but i wouldn't mind creating a self-hosted version for the 4 of you that really really want that ;)

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mxuribe|11 months ago

> ...right now it's centrally managed. it's just easier to build this way and use existing services. i use own apis, firebase and livekit.

Yeah, totally makes sense, centralized is easier. no hamr, no foul. :-)

> ...i'd LOVE to work on this full-time and live off of it, that's my end-goal.

Well, if/when you launch this, I'd be interested in paying you to manage the hosting of it. so, you jhave at least 1 willing potential customer!

> ... i wouldn't mind creating a self-hosted version...

Remember, how i want a self-hosted option? That still is true...but i likely would prefer to pay YOU to manage the hosting. In other words, I gladly pay devs/teams/orgs to manage hosted apps for me...but I always LIKE that they offer me a choicee to self-host something if/whenever I choose. Basically, if a company gives me the opportunity to leave them at any time...that in a way earns my trust, and that helps me want to pay them for their service...assuming their service is reliable, well-managed of course. So, yeah, self-hosted is the gold standard to live up to...but, don;t get it twisted: if you build in self-hosting AS WELL AS offer paid plans, i will def. pay you! Remember that, because there are TONS of people like me, who on principle want open source, self-hosted options, but who will gladly PAY for someone to manage said open source apps/services.

Again, cheers and kudos!

b0bben|11 months ago

that's a really interesting take on self-hosting, you've given me a lot of food-for-tought here, thank you. I now have a subreddit setup for this project at https://www.reddit.com/r/mollyconsole/ if you wanna keep tabs on changes (or just install and come say hi in MOLLYCORP crew)