I've wanted to try highlight for our company although I find it off putting that new companies market themselves as "Open Source!" "Self Hosted!" but really aren't that accessible or documented for independent use.
I get it. it's a business, and it really is open source (thanks for the permissive license), but it often feels more like an after-thought/marketing play, which is completely fine if you're upfront. or maybe I'm just spoiled.
We are not specifically focused on web app monitoring, but you should be able to monitor web app easily, esp. if you want to also monitor backend services and have frontend in JS
I understand the sentiment. Maybe we can put something in our self hosting docs [1] that is more clear about how we think about our open source stance. In short, self hosting highlight is free on a single instance, but we charge for an “enterprise” deployment where we support managed infra, etc.
Are there any other things you’d suggest we can change on our site to make it bode better?
Not the exact same feature set as highlight, but the platform I'm building[0] is self-hosted only for this exact reason: companies that have SaaS as their main business-model have negative incentives to make their self-hosted offering too good or easy to install/use.
I get it. it's a business, and it really is open source (thanks for the permissive license), but it often feels more like an after-thought/marketing play, which is completely fine if you're upfront. or maybe I'm just spoiled.