i spent 4 months building the paid version of my own open source project. here's what it cost and wh

i maintain holyclaude (2.4k stars, 132k docker pulls, mit) and holycode (another 9k pulls). both free, both self-hostable, both still shipping. this year i built the hosted version and started charging for it, and the honest report is more interesting than the launch post. to be exact about the timeline, since the title compresses it: the open source work started in march. the hosted version is about five weeks old. first commit early july, on sale 28 july. what it is: a linux box in the cloud t