Why We Chose Self-Hosting Over Cloud APIs (opens in new tab)

submitted by While building PolyTalk, one of the biggest decisions we faced was whether to rely on cloud APIs or keep everything self-hosted. At first, cloud services seemed like the obvious choice. They make it easy to get started and remove a lot of operational overhead. But the deeper we got into the project, the more we realized that self-hosting wasn’t just a deployment preference, it was a requirement for many of the use cases we were exploring. A few things we learned along the way: Ru...