Hey, that's me!
When I posted this myself on Reddit, I said the following:
I've long held off on actually posting this article to a platform like this one (don't bash your competition and all that), but "isn't Sentry self-hosted?" _is_ one of the most asked questions I get, and multiple people have told me this blog-post actually explains the rationale for Bugsink better than the rest of the site, so there you have it.
Well done! I came to the same conclusion (with the exact same bewilderment steps) as I do love Sentry myself. I will definitely try Bugsink, it’s something i’ve been looking for ages.
Feedback on competition bashing: sometimes they deserve it, they should really just come out and say it: “open sourcing our stuff isn’t working for us, we want to keep making money on the hosting”, and that would be ok
fwiw I was always pretty transparent about our priorities:
https://blog.sentry.io/building-an-open-source-service/
We enable self-hosting because not everyone can use a cloud service (e.g. government regulation), otherwise we probably wouldn't even spend energy on it. We dont commercialize it at all, and likely never will. I strongly believe people should not run many systems themselves, and something that monitors your reliability is one such system. The lesson you learn building a venture backed company, and one that most folks miss: focus on growth, not cost-cutting. Self-hosting for many is a form of cost-cutting.
We do invest in making it easier, and its 100% a valid complaint that the entire thing is awful today to self-host, and most people dont need a lot of the functionality we ship. Its not intentional by any means, its just really hard to enable a tiny-scale use-case while also enabling someone like Disney Plus.
Your project is awesome, you should do a show HN later.
Thanks for the kind words!
In fact I did one last week, but it got only a fraction of today's article's traction... I'll try again in whatever the prescribed interval is :-)
You can submit 2-3 times over a couple days.