Matrix. Bitwarden. Nextcloud. There are many examples of open-source, self-hosted applications that have for-profit companies that offer to host them for you as a service. Now if you use one of those Nextcloud providers to store your notes, can that providers read all your data? Of course. But for people who don’t want to self-host, it’s often a more trusted option than Google.
These comments are why privacy products will always be behind. Why open-source is full of dead projects. These people are just trying to make a living off making privacy-focused products. And all the comments are like “They’re a for-profit company? They had marketing material prepped to reply to people’s comments?!”.
The code is open-source, self-hostable, built using commodity hardware (raspi), and they’re just trying to make it sustainable by providing an optional paid service. This is not the enemy.
I think they’re just a privacy-focused startup that just wants to make a living off their work
very cool, I’ll have to look more into it
what remote desktop protocol do they use?
Very cool. I personally use a double wireguard network: a wireguard vpn at home for all my services, and then since my home network is behind a double NAT and impossible to access publicly, I use a second wireguard tunnel to a VPS, to forward traffic to my internal wireguard network. The only thing the VPS can see is encrypted wireguard packets.
Edit: it seems like this service is more for public or shared services (like a public blog), rather than private personal services, so wireguard is less of an option
You don’t have to pre-order, just wait until it’s released and buy it then. And in this case you can get a raspi and test the product for yourself, so why spread FUD?