Original Summary

At the end of 2024 I started Kaneo as a small, unserious side project: a project manager that's fast and simple, because every tool I tried was either bloated or locked into someone else's cloud. It's MIT licensed and you can self-host it for free. Somehow it grew: 9k+ stars on GitHub, 100+ contributors, 150+ releases, and people running it on everything from homelabs to company servers. A couple of months ago I decided to try making it a business. A few decisions I made, and I'd love your take on them: The paid product is hosting, not features. Kaneo Cloud is $4/month for one person and $5/user for teams. The self-hosted version gets every feature, including SSO. I watched other open-source tools move features like SSO into paid tiers and their communities hated it, so I'm betting on convenience instead: backups, updates and EU hosting handled for you. Early users stay free. Every workspace that existed before pricing launched stays free forever. They took a chance on a random side project, so it felt wrong to start charging them. Cheap on purpose. Most of my competitors charge $10 to $25 per user. I'd rather be the obvious choice for small teams than squeeze them. Where I'm at: the first month of pricing got me to $42 MRR, then $69 (nice). Not life-changing, but people are paying for something they could run for free, which still blows my mind. Is $4 to $5 per user too cheap to build a real business on? For people who've monetized open source: did hosting alone work, or did you end up with open-core? How do you get self-hosters to try the cloud version without annoying them? Here's my TrustMRR link: https://trustmrr.com/startup/kaneo   submitted by   /u/andrejsshell [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/6 04:55:36