Thanks for asking. I think one barrier with self-hosting is still that setting up a database isn't as easy as on DigitalOcean / Supabase. I'm an experienced self-hoster but running my own database still sometimes makes me a bit anxious as I have to set up scripts to do backups, set up scripts to see if my backups are being done correctly, set up metrics to see backups sizes, database sizes etc.

I just wrote this up here, in case someone else can point me to an existing project I'm not aware of: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/what-i-wish-existed-for-se...