> worried about putting their data in and being locked it in
Your product got a problem and your consumer offered a solution. AFAIK, consumers' solution solves nothing. You should focus on fixing your problem instead of making it open source.
Your product got a problem and your consumer offered a solution. AFAIK, consumers' solution solves nothing. You should focus on fixing your problem instead of making it open source.
Make it good enough and few people will have that concern, and even fewer will decline to use it because of that. Look at GitHub, Trello, Todoist, and many others; they all started as tiny web apps without much trust.
I should consider whether the early startup even without funding can afford to choose that path.