I would encourage you to consider not even trying to cripple the freely available self-hosted version. Personally I'm not a fan of open core or the GitLab business model, and Sentry has shown you can build a business without removing needed features from the self-hosted version. While folks may not agree Sentry is "open source" these days, our license effectively achieves the same from a customer pov as yours (which is ideal for customers). More people should take the risk IMO.
Ultimately people do not want to run all their own services if they can pay someone else to run it for them.
Makes a lot of sense. We're going to try to take a bit of a different approach, but no doubt that a successful business (like sentry) can be built w/o the gitlab model!
Ultimately people do not want to run all their own services if they can pay someone else to run it for them.