[rubenfiszel]

Founder of windmill.dev, the open-source alternative mentioned at the end. This market is tough, our customers are both very demanding and hard on price. We are doing very well because we kept the team very small but I cannot imagine the pressure to deliver when having raised 20x what we did.

I love what I'm doing and I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to build a startup in a domain that I cherish, devtools, and have grown to love demanding customers as people that care about our product. But if I wasn't passionate in it and its technical challenges, I think there are easier opportunities out there to make a successful startup and can easily imagine how disappointing this segment is with the track records they had as founders.

[jeremyjh]

I migrated to windmill.dev a couple of weeks ago and couldn't be happier. Honestly the product is simply better than Airplane. I looked at Windmill.dev a 18 months ago when I adopted Airplane, and it was less mature - but it was open source and I wish I'd given that more weight.

For my shop this was not really a big deal - we did not leverage Airplane's apps or workflows, we just used it to productionize some scripts that support edge cases in our platform and the migration for that is not too bad. Of course, I didn't feel that way when I got the email on Jan 3rd.

[gzapp]

Heya, ex-Rundeck engineer and founder of https://stepwisehq.com .

Will likely end up releasing MVP OSS this month and have to go back to work while continuing to bootstrap. Would love to chat sometime; may be some ideas in here you'd find interesting.

[joeblubaugh]

your product is really cool and i think you made a good decision by going OSS - it reduces the risks your customers take by migrating to the product.

[cx42net]

You have a massive acquire opportunity here ...