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> If you're interested in kicking the tires and are comfortable with dev environments, then install the app via these terminal commands.

So is this actually an open-source project, or is the open source just intended as a preview, and it's expected that production workloads would always be in the SaaS version?

It looks great but I'm a bit confused by the intention.

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Same here. The fact that you can request for a closed beta access suggest that it's not something you could host yourself, but at the end of the page it shows how to test it yourself. Pretty confusing.

Edit: It says on the medium post: "This is a great way to get familiar with the app, and prep your site(s) for deploying on the Vapid hosted service." So yeah looks like it's going to be a SaSS.

The code is licensed MIT without restrictions and the readme says:

"Vapid can be deployed to any hosting service that supports Node.js."

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