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by rocmcd 2349 days ago
Does the recent Kong acquisition not concern you at all?

I'm looking to switch, but the ties to Kong make me nervous investing in the platform. Presumably because they might eventually make it always for-pay and/or focus on more enterprise-y features that I'm not interested in.

I would love to hear what others think.

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The one thing I'll shine light on here is that open source has been a huge benefit to Insomnia thus far. It has allowed the community to drive decisions, submit feedback, and make the application much more robust. Kong was born from the same model for its core product so we no plans to change that. A thriving open source community is a huge advantage.

If you're curious, you can read more about the acquisition from my perspective on my blog: https://schier.co/blog/indie-to-acquisition

Thanks, Greg. I appreciate the candor, and I'll definitely take a look. It's great to hear that there are no plans to change how open the product is.