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by murb 865 days ago
AgentHub was open source when I first started it. I was really excited about the idea of people building their own integrations and fostering some sort of community around cool automations.

We noticed a few things though. 1. People who were most excited about no code did not want to contribute code to the project. 2. We were 95% open source because we were dealing with credentials and sensitive info on our hosted servers. This 5% of obfuscation was enough to make contributing annoying since you didn't totally understand how some pieces fit together. 3. We were adding new features and redesigning aspects of the system so often that it felt simpler to close it and accelerate. Features like node versioning and secure credential storage made it all quite difficult to maintain in an open way.

I do still love the idea though. Having people contribute their own integrations would be an absolute dream.