Thank you! For us, the decision to go open source wasn't about having a competitive advantage, it was more about the open source community that we love being a part of.
But of course there are pros and cons to being open source. Being open source can be an advantage in this highly competitive SaaS game because it allows you to spread your (free) product much more easily around the world as developers and companies tinker with it.
It also allows us to have a much shorter feedback loop with our users and community, which is crucial for an early startup.
In addition, as an open source product, you are the first choice for privacy-conscious customers such as government agencies that want to host themselves.
The main downside, of course, is that building a commercial product is also harder in the sense that you're competing with your own free product, and it's often hard to find the line between free and paid without losing on both ends.
Yes. It’s like Zapier that connects various APIs together but instead of no-code blocks that marketing/sales/product teams use, we are an API itself that developers can use to build integrations that are natively coupled into your product. This way your users don’t really know that you’re using Revert
Hi! Appreciate the comment and understand the skepticism here.
Well business/startups are tough are in general & more die than survive so you're probably right on those stats.
Would love to know more about your experience specifically though? Which products did you try? What was the use-case you had that made you add your own integration?
I'd love to chat more on this if you'd be up for it. :)
Hi, our frontend logic is minimal. Most of the product is the API which can be called from anywhere.
I don't see why this may not work for your use-case too. I'm happy to chat more if you want to just talk tech here and maybe avoid engineering work for your use-case.
