Challenge 3: What "Free, Full-Featured, No Subscription" Actually
Requires -- Solution Walkthrough

To get Cap's full feature set (AI captions, analytics, team
workspaces) without a monthly subscription, the team would need to
self-host the full platform themselves, since that's the only route
to those features at zero license cost. Per this chapter, self-hosting
is genuinely full-featured with no artificial limitations compared to
the paid hosted version -- but it requires real infrastructure work:
setting up Docker, connecting S3-compatible storage, registering and
configuring a domain, setting up SSL certificates, configuring email,
connecting an AI provider, and then maintaining all of that on an
ongoing basis as the team keeps using it.

"It's open source" doesn't make this effort-free because open source
here describes the licensing and cost of the software itself (AGPLv3,
no license fee), not the cost of running it. Cap Software's own hosted
Cap Pro tier ($8.20/mo annual or $12/mo monthly) exists specifically
so a team can pay a subscription instead of taking on that
infrastructure work themselves -- the subscription fee is, in
practice, the cost of someone else handling the hosting, storage,
and maintenance. Choosing the free self-hosted route trades that
subscription fee for the team's own time and ongoing operational
responsibility, not for nothing.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise checks that the reader understands "open source" as a
statement about licensing, not about operational effort -- correctly
naming the concrete infrastructure work self-hosting requires, and
recognizing that a subscription fee and a self-hosting effort are two
different kinds of cost, not simply "paid" versus "free."