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It's solving the problem of absurdly high pricing in SaaS.

I don’t think so, other than it’s an opportunity for younger companies to enter the market and they charge less. We should be seeing good price competition right now just from the age of all these new companies.

I don’t have a good model for what lower B2B prices would look like when company age/growth aggression/pricing unsophistication are factored, though. I don’t take the presence of some downside for granted because projects like this can be taken by incumbents and bundled into high margin services (copyleft helps a bit here.) Would welcome data.

This model to depress prices does definitely work in B2C, but it’s not necessary to develop an open source app to get cloned to drive down prices there; it happens to everyone.

I actually started building the open-source Shopify version because it was being enshittified. They were making store owners jump thru hoops to use their custom apps. It’s my store, my custom app, why would I need to register with Shopify.

Ask the vape companies that were on Shopify for nearly a decade and Shopify kicked them off a couple months back. I bet they wish they went with open-source instead of blindly trusting a company to whom you are expendable.

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