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Ask HN: How do you handle licensing and revenue leaks for self-hosted software?

2•lexokoh•4h ago
I’ve been exploring the hidden costs of self-hosted software, specifically, the silent revenue leaks that come from unauthorized deployments, lingering trials, and unmonitored usage.

Most devs I spoke to shared stories of enterprise clients spinning up “temporary” instances that ran for months, or trials that never actually ended. If you’re selling self-hosted, how are you tackling this?

I wrote up my findings and what can be done about it here:

https://kagehq.com/blog/hidden-revenue-leak-self-hosted-software

Would love to hear how the HN community is handling this.

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By making the software FOSS and charging for support instead of usage. Definitely not with DRM that could leave you legally liable for disrupting a company's entire operations when an inevitable false positive happens.

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