Comment by rhyssullivan1
3 years ago
Where did you see self hosting is a pro feature? My bad if the website gives that impression. It will be free, the whole codebase is MIT licensed.
For all the extra bells and whistles, it’s mainly for people who are doing community support at scale who need it which would be paid customers - I do sort of need a way to support myself so I can buy groceries. The core of the product that matter is free and working well for indexing content so now the focus is “what else can we do to improve community support as a whole?”
As for self hosting, if you submit a PR for supporting it I’d be happy to get that merged but it’s not really a priority at the moment. The codebase is setup to be pretty easy to make a self hosted version though.
Haha, that's fair. I'll consider trying to set it up myself and see how it goes.
I got the idea that it was a pro feature out of the roadmap list on the website, where it's listed as "coming soon", and "pro" is only mentioned when you click on the waitlist join link. If it means custom domains, it might be better off being listed as "custom domains" or something similar. That's how it's called on google apps and such. It also doesn't help that the roadmap on the website doesn't match the one on the github page, I thought the roadmap features on the github page might be pro features as well.
Ah I see how that’s confusing, sorry about that! I’ll update it in both places to make that clearer