Given the market that you're after, why sell it as a SaaS? The people that want new subscription services, and the people that want to self-host feels like an empty set. Why not do the more traditional model of selling version 1 of the software for $x, and then when version 2 comes out, sell that for $y, and people with version 1 can pay $z to upgrade, where z < y.

The math could work out to be the same, but the psychology of marketing is everything. If I, as a hard-core-self-hoster, pay $60 for a version 1 of software that I can use forever, and version 2 comes out a year later, and I pay $60 for that; I'm much happier to do that, compared to having to pay $5/month for yet another subscription service, even though that's exactly the same amount of money. I already have so many subscription services! I don't want to pay for another one!

If you could provide similar functionality / workloads as the old MS Small Business Server isn't there a MSP / reseller market opportunity? Self hosting for businesses that are < 25 users. They still tend to be serviced by small MSP. They've gone cloud because that's where their vendors went. Many hate it.

You'd need

* Directory/Authenticaion

* Email

* Shared Folders

* Wiki / Web something

If there were options for adding IM, PBX, CRM it could be a compelling offering for resellers.

> 5-bay and desktop HDD compatible models are under development and will be coming soon.

The box does look pretty. Any plans for dual/multiple ethernet versions? At a quick glance the Pi compute module doesn't have any so you must have added the lone one yourselves?

And of course the geek in me would like to know the network chips and how they're connected to the compute module (although I guess usb is the only choice).

The order page says "pre-order your pibox", but later says in-stock, and next-day shipping.

Very tempting looking product!