[OSS GAP] Privacy / Consent Records #privacy #compliance #self-hosted #records
Pain: Teams collecting consent need a durable record and simple admin views, not an enterprise CMP designed around giant ad stacks. “GitHub is introducing non-essential cookies on web pages that market our products to businesses. These cookies will provide analytics to improve the site experience and personalize” — github-issues (https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582)
Why now: Small teams in 2026 are cutting tool spend and refusing extra platform debt. OneTrust, Cookiebot, Osano are strong products, but they are packaged for bigger companies than small business and other small teams. That makes a smaller, self-hosted wedge in privacy / consent records unusually easy to explain.
Tiny wedge: Consent log for small business and other small teams without OneTrust-style pricing and platform weight.
Why this wins: Replaces recurring OneTrust spend with a boring self-hosted alternative for small business and other small teams.
Scope cut: Skip ad tech ecosystem integrations and global privacy legal suite in v1.
Stack: Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL.