The Open Source Fivetran alternative. Yay, it was about time! A simple license : MIT. Clear differentiation between free & paid plans. I am liking what I am seeing so far. One of our client is in advertising industry and is syncing data from 20 different API vendors to postgres. So I am one of your potential customer.

However, there is a big problem I'm noticing with "Open source alternatives" lately on HN. I had to mention this.

Even a simple installation of airbyte on my local machine fails :( I tried docker-compose up!

I simply wanna know why a basic example is not working on an important day of your company ? :) Is this a genuine mistake ? Sorry, this feedback will sound harsh but companies are taking words 'open source' for a complete ride. It's a great marketing trick. Gets you plenty of eyeballs, good will & trust to begin with. Then later we figure it's not even self hostable.

Here is a bad example that you may not want to follow : Supabase "The Open Source Firebase Alternative". The product is not self hostable despite calling themselves open source firebase all over internet. The Founders of Supabase have been disingenuous not to address self hosting[1][2] and its a been long time since their launch. The self hosting section on their website[3] doesn't provide any details on how to self host and they are careless enough to even mention "how to migrate away" from Supabase in that section.

[1] : https://github.com/supabase/supabase/discussions/219#discuss... [2] : https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/85#issuecomment-... [3] : https://supabase.io/docs/guides/platform#self-hosting