Is there any demand for owning your own data?
The classic SaaS business model is this: the user hands their data over to a provider, and in exchange they get an easy onboarding.
The risks are obvious. The user doesn't know how the provider handles their data, and can't do anything about the risk of leaks. The provider can also lock the account without warning, or just stop existing, so there's a risk of losing your data forever.
The opposite model is open source, where the user sets up their own servers, installs the software they need, spends time maintaining it, and takes care of backups, updates, and security themselves.
The first way wins on scale. People seem to not care about the risk of losing their data.
I don't get it. Is security and owning your own stuff really of no interest to people, and nobody even thinks about it? Or is it a conscious decision, and the point is that running and maintaining your own open source cloud is too complicated and expensive, more than the data is worth?
And how much sense does it make to offer people a service for setting up and maintaining their own stacks for AI agents and their environment?