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If the 'frontend' stays the same (and i literally mean all frontend, from GUI to APIs), then noone cares.
If something changes, you atleast can delay the change, until you fix other components (or maybe even not update, if it's some internal stuff), because with SaaS, you have no say about it.
Even if the project becomes unsupported, you can still run the old version, until you find 'something new' (or again, keep runing the old for internal stuff).
If you build anything around a SaaS provider, they alway have yu by the balls,... be it with ever changing pricing or killing the project, "just because" [0]
[0] https://killedbygoogle.com/
There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research.
The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me.
[0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
I wasn't aware of Athens, thanks! There's also Logseq: https://github.com/logseq/logseq and a few others, but I forgot their names.
One great way to get this into the mainstream would likely be to clone and adapt `feathers.js` support for `Airtable`:
https://github.com/jonascript/feathers-airtable
It's not so hard to see it's licensed under Apache license if you look at their obvious GitHub repo.
https://github.com/seatable/seatable
This is kind of close to that: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
A nice API might be all that you need. That and maybe something like https://lowdefy.com to easily put a UI in front of it.
Self hosted and open source alternative is https://directus.io/