[lightandlight]

> do you think there's any appetite in people paying for this type of tool which lets you spin up infra on demand and gives you all the capabilities built so far?

(I'm not the author) The easiest way to charge for this kind of software is to make it SaaS, and I think that's pretty gross, especially for a CLI tool.

> I'm skeptical and I may just release it all as OSS

It doesn't have to be one or the other: you could sell the software under libre[1] terms, for example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

[erdaniels]

Agreed that SaaS feels ugly. Agreed on selling it as libre. The only thing I could imagine charging for in a subscribed model would be for services that are hosted (e.g. instance/gpu provisioning/monitoring/maintenance in the cloud) while also offering the ability to self-host the same machinery.