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		djbusby on July 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, fu... They put "open source" in the pitch cause some folk (eg: me) give preference to vendors who allow self-host and have some hippy-license.

serverlessmom on July 19, 2023 [–]

Open source is always going to be a major selling point for Observability. Once you get to any scale the lock-in with a closed source SaaS product is going to make your budget HURT.

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