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I’m having so much fun building OpenTodo. Honestly, I wanted something like it for a long time: a task app that’s completely free, open source, and runs on my own server, where nobody can paywall my tasks or shut the app down. Self-hosting stays at the heart of it. That won’t change. But I keep coming back to a slightly weird idea. Not everyone has a server, or wants one. Plenty of open-source projects offer a hosted version, but almost always as the paid part. I’d like to offer one too, but for free: every feature, with no “Pro” tier, no subscription, the same code you can run yourself, so you can export your tasks and move to your own server at any time, end-to-end encryption available, as it already is when you self-host. The obvious question is who pays for the servers. I can personally pay for the first 100-200 users probably, but then my first thought is donations, with the running costs published openly so everyone can see what it takes. But I’m honestly not sure that’s enough, and I don’t want to make a promise I can’t keep. What I’m unsure about: What if donations don’t cover it? Would a waiting list or storage limits be fair, as long as every feature stays? Trust. Would you put your tasks on a free service run by one person? What would you need: a promise of plenty of notice and a full export if it ever closes, encryption, something else? Attachments, webhooks and email to task are what spammers love on free services. Would stricter limits on those be acceptable? So, what do you think? Do you know projects that did this well, or that got it badly wrong? Nothing is decided. If your answer is “keep it self-hosted and don’t spread yourself thin”, I’d like to hear that too. If you haven’t seen OpenTodo yet: website - demo (no sign-up) · GitHub   submitted by   /u/Alternative_One_4804 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/16 15:32:41