This will limit the success of the product. That shouldn't matter if you're looking at this as a lifestyle business, rather than a giant SaaS company.
Another thing is: does your ideal customer for this exist and who are they? People who want analytics and ownership via on-prem, right? Go find those people and ask them, without describing your product to avoid biasing them, how they currently solve the problems your product solves.
If they don't actually care about analytics or on-prem, then you'll know if there's a mismatch in the definition of the product as you see it, and need to change to match those customers or another segment. Also are those customers even big enough operations to have someone who can set up on-prem, like you allude to. If not, time to switch it up.
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This will limit the success of the product. That shouldn't matter if you're looking at this as a lifestyle business, rather than a giant SaaS company.
Another thing is: does your ideal customer for this exist and who are they? People who want analytics and ownership via on-prem, right? Go find those people and ask them, without describing your product to avoid biasing them, how they currently solve the problems your product solves.
If they don't actually care about analytics or on-prem, then you'll know if there's a mismatch in the definition of the product as you see it, and need to change to match those customers or another segment. Also are those customers even big enough operations to have someone who can set up on-prem, like you allude to. If not, time to switch it up.
NickC25's advice is good.