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Hi, I'm Fibery Founder (and late to the party), so if you have specific questions, shoot.

Is this better than JIRA? (Yes everything is better than JIRA, especially a rock, as that is fast and does not get uglier with redesigns.)

Is this open source? (I guess not, but still any thoughts/plans? AGPL? Mongo/Redis-like anti-AWS license?)

GitLab has issues. I mean the feature not the bugs. Is Fibery oriented at code based projects?

Can I model a CRM flow with it? (I don't know what's the "correct" answer to this, it's just something that comes to mind sometimes.)

1. Fibery is not better that JIRA (or is better). JIRA is focused on software development, while Fibery can cover more areas and more processes. It really depends on your needs. For example, Fibery has no integration with source control yet. However, documents integrated with real work processes better than in JIRA.

2. Fibery is closed source.

3. We try to keep Fibery a broad product and so far we think our competitors are Notion, Coda and Airtable. Not Gitlab.

4. Yes, you can. Note that Fibery has no automations so far (only Zapier and API), it means some cases will be hard to have. Like email communication via Fibery with automatic linkage of all messages to some Account. You can check more info here https://help.fibery.io/en/collections/1831852-map-your-proce...

Would you consider open sourcing the application with a license like AGPLv3+?

We indeed considered that, but no decision so far. We'll see.

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