Yep - trying to figure out the differentiation angle mainly. Maybe what I can do is create a similar free tier, but include attribution in the email like “this email was generated by simpleotp.com” + hope that some people convert to paid customers. However, I’m just a bit nervous of offering a free tier, incurring server costs when people abuse it, and having no one convert I suppose.

However, the OSS angle is becoming more and more interesting the more I think about it:
- No free tier users to abuse the system or cause increased burn on my end as they’ll be running the server themselves
- Increased trust as they can read the code, which no competitor is offering today
- Customers can pay to receive better support and cloud hosting if they don’t want to run simpleotp themselves
- I can also turn on GitHub sponsorships or similar if people want to support the OSS version.

Think I’ll go in this direction if I don’t get any conversions by EOW. Thanks for spurring these thoughts on my end! Happy to hear any other feedback if you have a different idea