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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup: Storage Room - A CMS for Mobil... by petervandijck on Friday October 29, 2010 @09:48AM (#1847277)
Cool. Still, I wouldn't blur them. I think this is a difficult market to be in. Think back to all the hosted CMS's in the past. If there is really demand, there will be a free solution that you run yourself.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup: Storage Room - A CMS for Mobil... by sashthebash on Friday October 29, 2010 @09:53AM (#1847304)
A free self-hosted solution is definitely competition. But many people will probably still think it is convenient to use a hosted service and pay for it.

It's the same with Gmail, salesforce, 37signals products and many other services. There are almost always free open-source alternatives, but not everybody wants to deal with installation, hosting and maintenance of those solutions.

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