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by edf13 1411 days ago
What’s the lock-in? As in - when we’ve built a UI/app is it locked into a subscription?

What happens if you go out of business or we stop subscribing?

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(Superblocks creator here)

Great question, having been an engineer all my life, this is one of the question I would ask myself as well. Developers are at the forefront of our target audience and we want to give all developers the peace of mind that any code or configuration you create in Superblocks is completed owned by you and can keep working without Superblocks. Here's how:

1. Our agent is open-source, this means you can inspect, modify, build and host it however you like

2. We're soon launching a feature where you can export the entire definition of Superblocks apps/workflow/jobs/permissions as project files and manage it in your own git repo

3. We're brainstorming the idea of exporting your app as native React and NodeJS applications so your app continues to work outside of Superblocks

Obviously our goal is to keep providing the best features, performance and stability so you can save time and let us accelerate your development process :)

Would this give you the confidence to use a platform like this? If not, what can we do better?