Yeah, it's a bummer. I'm trying to run an open source product, too [1] and that's one of my major concerns with this model.
One trick I want to try is, make everything open source but still paywall some features behind a license check. Easy to circumvent (and legal, too), but maybe businesses wouldn't be bothered with it, and for personal use – well, why not allow it – maybe some of them would convince their employers to use it as well :-) (And of course, providing it as a service is a much more straightforward business model, at least in my case.)
One trick I want to try is, make everything open source but still paywall some features behind a license check. Easy to circumvent (and legal, too), but maybe businesses wouldn't be bothered with it, and for personal use – well, why not allow it – maybe some of them would convince their employers to use it as well :-) (And of course, providing it as a service is a much more straightforward business model, at least in my case.)
[1]: https://lunni.dev/
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