Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

Re:Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform by swyx on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:10PM (#29244144)

just chiming in to congratulate you on a successful Product Hunt launch today as well! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/budibase)

i gotta ask about the tradeoffs of being open source. It's great for trust and marketing, but if people can self-host Budibase they're always weighing DIY vs paying you. I also work in an open source company and I know product development is often slowed because you have to consider the open ended needs of the open source users vs the constrained assumptions of your cloud.

Any insights or rules of thumb you've developed to think about running an open source business?

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Re:Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform by mjashanks on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:32PM (#29244535)

Thanks! Open-source has been fantastic for us. We've only recently launched our cloud platform, yet we've had a good sized community using Budibase and feeding back issues, feature requests etc. for ages. Building an open-source product has been so rewarding that way.

Of course, you're exactly right - we now have another ball to juggle; keeping our cloud up and running!

It took us nearly 3 years to open our cloud up, but I'm so glad that we left it this long. Only now do we have the engineering resource to handle open-source/self-host and cloud whilst still keeping the pace of development up.

So, for tips - work on product, product, product. Build your community and give them a great open-source offering. Your community will give back in return - even pure product feedback is gold. Then launch cloud when your direction is solid and you're confident in your product.

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