Co-founder of Budibase here.

You've hit the nail on the head.

As developers, we were burnt out building the same internal tools time and time again. So, we went looking for a low code platform and what we found, were closed source, expensive, low code platforms that were clunky and not very extensible.

We thought we could build a better low code platform that was enjoyable to use. And our first and easiest decision was making it open source.

It's written in nodejs and Svelte, and uses CouchDB. Happy to provide more technical info.

This looks incredible, thank you for helping create Budibase, gonna try it out when I can. Glad to see Svelte being used, really like how performant it is.