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Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by rodrigonader on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:22PM (#39933343)
Rodrigo from Langflow here! I've been itching to share this news with everyone on HN, and it’s very timely given it's happening on YC Demo Day. Best of luck to all the founders demoing today!

My co-founder Gabriel and I have been building Langflow 24/7 for over a year now. We're a small, fully bootstrapped team based down in Brazil, and honestly, it was so wild to fly up to SF for the first time to meet the DataStax team in person and get this deal done. You dream about this kind of stuff when you're up at 3am fixing a `pip install` bug, and it's hard to believe it's happening.

Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic. Our mission is to make it easier for more and more developers to build AI applications, and DataStax fully supports this because more developers == more AI apps in production.

We would be nowhere without our amazing community. Thank you so much for helping us make Langflow what it is and in the coming months our plan is to make Langflow simpler and more fun to use. Happy to answer any questions!

Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by SOLAR_FIELDS on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:07PM (#39933930)
> Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic.

Hard to make a bold claim like this when you’re no longer calling the shots. Or did you get that in contract as part of your deal?

Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by rodrigonader on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:23PM (#39934094)
Thanks for the comment - this is important to disclaim:

Actually, it's in DataStax's best interests for Langflow to remain free, open source, and vendor agnostic, so they're making that claim too!

That is what attracted developers to Langflow in the first place and the reason why we have such a big community. DataStax wants more developers to build on AI and we want to help developers do this, and we don't see that changing.

Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by ycombinatrix on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:59PM (#39934460)
not to rain on your parade, but it was also in HashiCorp's best interest to keep Terraform free & open...until it wasn't.

also see Amazon + Elasticsearch.

i don't think you're in a position to be making claims about a product that you no longer control.

Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by karamanolev on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:27PM (#39934743)
And more recently, Redis.
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by Two4 on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:57AM (#39940593)
He's simply affirming the claims made by the company that now owns LangFlow, and he is in the position to make those claims in good faith - what you do with those claims is up to you.
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by ycombinatrix on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:09AM (#39943354)
Nope. DataStax has made no such claims & their own press release on the LangFlow acquisition says nothing of the sort.

Man is making these claims with zero faith. Wouldn't be the first time wool was pulled over the founder's eyes.

Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by Solvency on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:32PM (#39934193)
So it's not in contract...
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by davefisher-oo on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:41PM (#39934266)
DataStax has supported open source throughout its history. Examples include, but are not limited to, Apache Cassandra and Apache Pulsar which are core to DataStax business.
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by ycombinatrix on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:02PM (#39934487)
Microsoft has also supported open source for a long time. It still counts even if it was part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" right?
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by cedricklunven on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:50PM (#39933718)
Congratulations ! It will help any integration with external tools thanks to all the connectors included.

It also makes pipelines so easy to change

Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by CorporateGrunt on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:19PM (#39934057)
Truly excited for how this amazing partnership will exponentially enhance us Devs as a community as well as the world utilizing these better built ideas!
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by prabhatjha on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:40PM (#39933581)
Congrats to you and team. Looking forward to awesome stuff you all build as part of this partnership.
Re:DataStax just bought our startup Langflow by ogabrielluiz on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:43PM (#39933613)
Gabriel from the Langflow team here.

We are too! This is going to be really good for the community.