Seriously. The amount of lift a SaaS product needs to give me is insane for me to even bother evaluating it, and there's a near zero percent chance I'll use it in my core.

What do you think an alternative is for someone who:

1. Has a technical system they think could be worth a fortune to large enterprises, containing at least a few novel insights to the industry.

2. Knows that competitors and open source alternatives could copy/implement these in a year or so if the product starts off open source.

3. Has to put food on the table and doesn’t want to give massive corporations extremely valuable software for free.

Open source has its place, but it is IMO one of the ways to give monopolies massive value for free. There are plenty of open source alternatives around for vector DBs. Do we (developers) need to give everything away to the rich

Not that locked in - you can just move your vectors to another platform, no?

Vectroid co-founder here. We're huge fans of open source. My co-founder, Talip, made Hazelcast, which is open source.

It might make sense to open source all or part of Vectroid at some point in the future, but at the moment, we feel that would slow us down.

I hate vendor lock-in just as much as the next person. I believe data portability is the ACTUAL counter to vendor lock-in. If we have clean APIs to get your data in, get your data out, and the ability to bulk export your data (which we need to implement soon!), then there's less of a concern, in my opinion.

I also totally understand and respect that some people only want open source software. I'm certainly like that w/ my homelab setup! Except for Plex... Love Plex... Usually.

Nothing for you to see here. Surely you just aren't their target customer.