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1. debars+NQ1[view] [source] 2023-05-13 10:52:06
>>InitEn+(OP)
I have been following this space for really long time. I think closest competitor is Airplane.dev [1]. One of the most difficult thing to sell as a sales person is to sell an open ended workflow and UI engine and ask me to segment and prospect customers. It is not that you cant sell it, it is just too broad even for your customers to figure out a usecase, because theres always a specific tool to solve the usecase. For instance, stripe refund is one most common usecase posted by all of these platform, but there are actual tools that just does stripe refund and they solve it in depth. You can argue these tools are value for money but then if it involves build time, in long run it becomes expensive. Retool is actually captured the market really well. It is basically become the verb in the internal tool market, it is hard to compete with that even as an opensource project.

[1] https://airplane.dev

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2. wander+YS1[view] [source] 2023-05-13 11:20:00
>>debars+NQ1
Its hard to predict how a good open source tool that solves hard and painful problems will evolve in a marketplace. I don't think Linux developers would have remotely dreamt of a cloud revolution when they were creating an open source kernel. Maybe windmill will enable a marketplace of automation tools that can be leveraged across multiple business for multiple usecases. Never underestimate a open source solution solving painful problems.
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3. debars+g82[view] [source] 2023-05-13 13:41:43
>>wander+YS1
You are argument is fair but being a VC backed company puts a deadline on the org. They have to not only prove that it solves a pain point but also make a ton of money and growth.
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