> No business model short-term. My goal is broad adoption, 100% open-source.
IMHO that's kind of a red flag. There's a happy path here where it's successful but stays low-maintenance enough that you just work on it in your spare time, or it takes of and gets community support, or you get sponsorships or such. But there's also an option where in a year or two it becomes your job and you decide to monetize by rug-pulling and announce that actually paying the bills is more important than staying 100% open source. Not a dig at you, just something that's happened enough times that I get nervous when people don't have a plan and therefore don't have a plan to avoid the outcome that creates problems for users.
Sure one day if it really kicks off I could think of offering additionally a SaaS solution with paid enterprise features like SOC 2 compliance, RBAC, multiple clouds supported, etc. Why not. But I strongly believe that for it to be successful, it needs a strong open-source base. Then, billing huge companies for compliance features or huge usage makes sense. That would support development of the open-source part too.
I like the Docker model, for instance: free for companies under 250 employees or $10m/y revenue.
In any case, it will always be open-source.
Those paid enterprise features wouldn't come from closed-source: they would come from compliance of a particular SaaS-offered infra setup, that anybody else could reproduce. Just like HuggingFace.