It's a big leap to try to be the very first to succeed with a dual AGPL/commercial licensed product. Hell, if you did that you'd also be the first AGPL project of any sort to succeed!
It's quite a gamble you're taking with the license, and one fairly orthogonal to your actual project.
You're right if you mean by "orthogonal" that licensing was not a major concern. We needed an open-source license, I looked around and chose the AGPL over the GPL, and that was that. I didn't think it was going to be an issue.
It's quite a gamble you're taking with the license, and one fairly orthogonal to your actual project.