Hi readers π, welcoming you back to the "Appwrite OSS Fund" series, where we celebrate open-source maintainers. π
π€ What Is OSS Fund?
On the 4th of May, the Appwrite team launched the OSS Fund, an initiative to support open-source project maintainers. Being an open-source company, we wanted to give back to the community and help as many people as we can.
The OSS Fund is an initiative that is very close to our heart.
Hear what our Founder and CEO has to say - The Appwrite Story:
Announcing the Appwrite OSS Fund - Appwrite
Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.
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π’ Announcing The Fourteenth Project
After careful considerations from the committee we are thrilled to announce the fourteenth project:
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π’ Announcing the 14th #OSS Fund Sponsored Project π’
We are excited to sponsor Coolify! π₯³
Looking for open-source hosting services? You have coolify.io to the rescue!
π OSS Fund applications are still open - appwrite.io/oss-fund13:01 PM - 09 Mar 2023
π€ What Is Coolify?
Coolify is an open-source PaaS, a self-hostable Heroku/Netlify/Vercel alternative, that you can use to manage your servers and deploy your applications, databases and other services to your own servers, with Git integration, auto-deployments, auto SSL certificates, etc.
π€ Meet The Maintainer
Andras Bacsai from Hungary is the maintainer of Coolify. He is a developer, who turned into a solopreneur a year ago, thanks to his open-source project. He fell in love with coding when he was 15.
π‘ How Did The Idea Of Coolify Come Up?
The initial inspiration of Coolify came from curiosity. Andrais was just curious if he could build such a complex system. 3 days later he had the MVP. Started to build it in public on Twitter and since then, it is getting more popular each day.
π The Journey So Far
The first version was released around 2 years ago. In that time, Andras was working for a huge multinational company (11 years), but when he released the first version, things got changed a lot ( blog post about it ), and he left his job when all this pandemic happened, and started to work for a startup (CodeSandbox). For 1,5 years, Andras was doing Codesandbox by day and Coolify by night. Coolify got popular by a hacker news post that made 100k+ visitors a day to its landing page. It was a huge boost, not just for him as motivation, but for the projects as well. Lots of VCs started to contact him, saying that they are interested in investing in Coolify. It felt super motivating, but he knew that he do not want a VC-backed funding. The priority from focusing on the community could be shifted to making money. This is not what he wants. So he rejected all of them and continued building Coolify as an open-source and free tool.
ποΈ Ending Notes
As the team continues to build Flame Engine for the open source community, we want to thank maintainers like them for contributing back to the community.
If this story resonates with you or your friend, tell them about OSS Fund, as applications are still open:
Appwrite OSS Fund
Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.
appwrite.io
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