Early adopters

[Todd Miller]

I think if we are honest almost everyone would say they were disappointed in how this startup has gone including Eshtek.  I don't think all of our disappointment is justified because it has nothing to actually do with HexOS.  However, you have hit on two points that are hard to argue with.  Why are we paying up to $200 to test this application?  And TrueNAS what?  As for the paying to test question, I guess I am starting to do the same (well kind of) as you because I have set it aside to wait for go live.  Plex and Immich are the only current curated apps I would ever use and until the serious discussions on how to secure the NAS start my machine is just a giant backup drive.  And as for the current absolute requirement to use TrueNAS to do ALMOST anything including troubleshooting curated app failures.  Well, if I am going to have to hire TrueNAS support to properly setup all non curated and some curated apps, I'm probably better off buying beer for my current Unraid support buddy.

Like many others, I saw the LTT video and thought "Holly crap, someone finally built a system I can manage myself.  I got in at the Black Friday price so HexOS on a mostly recycles server is still cheaper that a Synology or Ugreen prebuilt server.  Storage seems to be the biggest cost but I have to pay that either way.

I'm sure I will keep checking in and looking at the officially curated apps to see if anything looks interesting but unless there is a solid security option, it's all pretty irrelevant to me.  My problem is that if I had to pay $299 what would I need to pull the trigger?  That may be a tough uphill struggle for Eshtek if they want to attract people who are not at least serviceable in TrueNAS.  So instead of looking at an the app we have today and deciding what it must be going to look like in 1, 2 and 5 years, we can wait and see what 1.0 looks like.  I doubt though it will ever just be point and click.