I also find the current monetization schemes of some providers quite repugnant. Stuck with Entra Id currently at work but running both KeyCloak and FusionAuth on my personal K8s cluster. Been enjoying the experience with FusionAuth quite a bit. KeyCloak is also a great piece of software but I think the option of starting with FusionAuth self hosted Community plan and moving to hosted plans a offers a better route to align needs and capacity costs in the long term. Definitely my first choice for future potential business ventures. Couple of other thoughts / questions: .NET auth story is currently a bit in a weird state after IdentityServer4 -> Duende, I think you might find potential customers there and probably already have. Do you have a plan to target the Vercel + Clerk / Auth0 crowd where everything is fun and pretty much free until the capacity costs hit you in the face. What's the risk of FusionAuth being acquired by evil corp A / B / C, since like with Auth0 that's when stuff goes downhill? Cheers!
"starting with FusionAuth self hosted Community plan and moving to hosted plans a offers a better route to align needs and capacity costs in the long term. Definitely my first choice for future potential business ventures." -- Awesome to hear, we agree. Good insight with the .NET auth. story. Keeping an eye on it. Not sure what you mean a "plan to target...." In general, we try to make the developer community aware of our product offering and pricing (finding the right level of licensing and support for your situation, as you mentioned above). Once they understand that, they can make the right decision for themselves and we are here for them. "What's the risk of FusionAuth being acquired by evil corp A / B /C..." While I can't say the risk is zero throughout the rest of time, we like our business model and service. It has made us successful and who we are today as a company. As a business we want to continue being successful and grow while providing great service and an outstanding product at a price point that makes sense. In the small chance that something like an acquisition by an evil company happens, we fully expect our customers and community to hold us accountable and that's why I don't think something like that is going to happen. And if you are really worried, one of the nice things about FusionAuth is that you can grab all your data any time you need.
I also find the current monetization schemes of some providers quite repugnant. Stuck with Entra Id currently at work but running both KeyCloak and FusionAuth on my personal K8s cluster. Been enjoying the experience with FusionAuth quite a bit. KeyCloak is also a great piece of software but I think the option of starting with FusionAuth self hosted Community plan and moving to hosted plans a offers a better route to align needs and capacity costs in the long term. Definitely my first choice for future potential business ventures.
Couple of other thoughts / questions:
.NET auth story is currently a bit in a weird state after IdentityServer4 -> Duende, I think you might find potential customers there and probably already have.
Do you have a plan to target the Vercel + Clerk / Auth0 crowd where everything is fun and pretty much free until the capacity costs hit you in the face.
What's the risk of FusionAuth being acquired by evil corp A / B / C, since like with Auth0 that's when stuff goes downhill?
Cheers!
"starting with FusionAuth self hosted Community plan and moving to hosted plans a offers a better route to align needs and capacity costs in the long term. Definitely my first choice for future potential business ventures." -- Awesome to hear, we agree.
Good insight with the .NET auth. story. Keeping an eye on it.
Not sure what you mean a "plan to target...." In general, we try to make the developer community aware of our product offering and pricing (finding the right level of licensing and support for your situation, as you mentioned above). Once they understand that, they can make the right decision for themselves and we are here for them.
"What's the risk of FusionAuth being acquired by evil corp A / B /C..." While I can't say the risk is zero throughout the rest of time, we like our business model and service. It has made us successful and who we are today as a company. As a business we want to continue being successful and grow while providing great service and an outstanding product at a price point that makes sense. In the small chance that something like an acquisition by an evil company happens, we fully expect our customers and community to hold us accountable and that's why I don't think something like that is going to happen. And if you are really worried, one of the nice things about FusionAuth is that you can grab all your data any time you need.