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nebulon, I feel you buried the lead here. I came in here and was like "Cloudron already offered self-hosting on AWS, what's this announcement/blog for?"

You guys went open source! THAT'S AWESOME. But you didn't mention that until the bottom of the blog. :( You should highlight that news better!

Congrats and welcome to the open source world! :D

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Thanks for the hint about messaging. I guess we haven't seen it as a huge PR thing for us, as it is more like the natural thing, coming from an all open source environment anyways. We just had no time/focus to do it till now and until recently the code itself it was pretty useless as such for others. With the AWS self-hosting only the first step is done to help people use it in their own way.

I think it's a big deal because most decentralization folks and self-hosters wouldn't take a closer look at a platform that wasn't open source. So you get a chance to get that second look when you push that news.

And things going open source usually does well on HN as a headline.

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