Help me understand, I must be dumb. If people seem to value privacy and security more so that they don't trust their data hosted at a third party, why are many of these are self-hosted Web apps as opposed to a simple desktop application?
I'm not just talking about this particular one, just in general on the idea of replacing SaaS (like Mint) with self-hosted. What is self-hosting buying here? If it's installed on the local, it's a waste of resources and development time, if it's hosted on a third party hoster we're back to somebody holding user's data.
Is this simply because people are so used to building Web apps that they use them everywhere?
(Yes you can file it under "old man yelling a the sky" category, I'm still on Quicken 2016 personally :) )
I'm not just talking about this particular one, just in general on the idea of replacing SaaS (like Mint) with self-hosted. What is self-hosting buying here? If it's installed on the local, it's a waste of resources and development time, if it's hosted on a third party hoster we're back to somebody holding user's data.
Is this simply because people are so used to building Web apps that they use them everywhere?
(Yes you can file it under "old man yelling a the sky" category, I'm still on Quicken 2016 personally :) )