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Superblocks Announces $37m Funding

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> Superblocks is a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical custom internal apps, workflows and scheduled jobs, at a fraction of the time and cost.

Superblocks is based on AppSmith (Apache 2.0)

https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

open-source developers beware

Could you elaborate?

see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347476

"Based on" is a strong term when most of our code is not from Appsmith. Since forking some frontend components from Appsmith (which is an Apache 2.0 project) over a year ago. Our entire code execution, deployment, version control, observability and security model is built from scratch to give our customers the best product experience. At Superblocks we're focused on building great solutions for our customers, this means we're going to assemble relevant frameworks and libraries for the job if the license permits.

Brad here, one of the cofounders of Superblocks! Last week we launched on Hacker News and we’re incredibly thankful for all of the constructive feedback and excitement we received: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344671

We heard you loud and clear, and are addressing the pain of not enough templates, vendor lock in risk, open source preferences, custom UI components, etc. We wrote about how we plan to address it here: https://www.superblocks.com/blog/learnings-from-hitting-1-on...

As a reminder, Superblocks is an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource (databases, APIs, data warehouses), drag and drop your common UI components (tables, charts, forms), spin up backend APIs and schedule cron jobs, all in one place.

Today with the fundraise we’re looking for even more critical feedback to determine where we should take the product next

Your pricing is a little misleading and hard to understand in my opinion. It took a few minutes, then i realised the viewer day passes seem to be what will drive the price.

If i were you, i'd add the view day passes to the main pricing tiers - it'll help people see the trust cost easier.

As part of this they also announced they have 18 people that are executives / manager types as part of the "team". The company in the picture is ~40 people roughly. So almost half of the company is management / executives?

Assuming this is a real question- the company doesn’t have 18 CEOs on the team. It does have about 18 investors listed. Does that clarify it?

Is it a series A or a seed?

Series A

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