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It's interesting to see cloud service after cloud service launch that promises "never to sell your data".

I'm working on a similar thing, except making sure we can actually live up to that promise: that means making the software entirely feasible to run on-prem (i.e. on your own computer), on your own cloud infrastructure, or provided by a third-party provider of your choice. (We chose AGPL3 to avoid the obvious problems with third party hosting trying to add features or change things and then locking you into their platform.)

Of course, this takes a bit more effort, and some things like Plaid are nearly impossible to use when self-hosted, but we've found some pretty good workarounds for that.

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mhrnik a day ago | parent [-]

That’s really good for you. I am a solo guy working on this on nights and weekends. And definitely I ll never sell anyone’s data.

Also will work on self hosting and offline support once product get mature.

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stavros a day ago | parent | next [-]

> And definitely I ll never sell anyone’s data.

But "I'll never sell the data" is different from "this service will never sell the data". If you sell the service, will you put it in the contract that any subsequent owner can never monetise the data? Will you decline a sale if they decline? How will you justify that to the board? What if they fire you to push the sale through?

Etc etc. "We'll never sell your data" is just empty words to me, except in one case: if you designed a system that never has my data in the first place.

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trollbridge a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I 100% believe you.

The challenge is after it grows/becomes more successful, something happens that you lose control of the company, or perhaps you take some investment money (which is completely reasonable to do) and then they want you to start changing how you do things. You might not even "sell" the data - you might be forced to give it away.

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mhrnik a day ago | parent | next [-]

Got your point. I will also request you to try web app and share some feedback that you would like to see.

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amelius a day ago | parent | prev [-]

What's the best way to protect against this?

	▲	trollbridge a day ago \| parent [-]
		We’re implementing our code as open source (AGPL3) and offering entirely self hosted, cloud hosted by us, or third party hosted options. Our biggest customer wants to pay us to cloud host it for them and manage the whole thing.