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> That is why I guess their main audience is rails developers who need some content management functionality in their apps. And those do not need hosting.

That's a great point, and another illustration that a business model that works for one product might not work for another, even if they appear similar on the surface.

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That is correct, a vast majority of our users are Rails developers and we don't have a paid product for them right now. So we'll have to reach larger audiences for the hosting and find a good product for our early adopters. It's not so easy to combine both and that makes our website copy not as clear as it should be.

We're trying to talk to Rails developers because they are the most likely to see the technical possibilities of the product and to other developers because they are more likely to use our hosting solution. And we also insist on the free and open source side of the business while trying to monetize the project.

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