Frely is not a SaaS that holds your business hostage. Everything lives on hardware you control and that is a deliberate architectural choice, not a limitation.
What “self-hosted” means here
- No accounts, no tracking, no telemetry. Nothing phones home. There is no analytics beacon, because there is no “home”.
- Your keys, your costs, your logs. Everyday drafting runs locally at $0. If you plug in a key, you see exactly what every request costs. No markup, no middleman.
- A Postgres backup is a full export of your business. One command, one file, portable forever.
- Works offline on a local network. Client work stays inside your walls NDA-friendly by default.
What you give up
- Zero setup. You run one install command. That is the whole ceremony.
- Automatic updates. Pull the repo, restart the stack. Two commands, your data untouched.
- Built-in backups. Schedule a Postgres dump anywhere you like cron it once and forget it.
- Vendor drama immunity. Price hikes, shutdowns, acquisitions, policy changes none of them can touch you.
The trade, honestly stated
A cloud tool is easier to start and impossible to leave. Self-hosted takes ten extra minutes to start and belongs to you from day one. Freelancers who have ever lost an account, a history or a workflow to a platform decision know which side of that trade matters.
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