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I'm at the stage of my career where vendor lock-in (aka "we are going to use this stable boring corporate-backed tech forever instead of migrating between your hot new JS frameworks every 6 months") is a godsend. Yes I'll happily use AWS. No I will not spend my time to learn and implement RedwoodSDK, whatever that is.

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There's a RedwoodJS frontend framework, never heard of RedwoodSDK

Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM

RedwoodSDK is the successor to RedwoodJS. We've rebranded RedwoodJS as "Redwood GraphQL" and built this new thing from scratch. We are the same people with the same ambitions, but more focused. With a narrow niche. I believe that a framework requires a platform to be competitive today.

Because of AI, the difficulty in writing code is greatly reduced. And because of platforms, the difficulty of shipping to production is greatly reduced.

That combination can be really great for your velocity when trying to build a business.

Thanks, that does make sense, I just hadn't heard about the new direction/rebranding.

Agreed on both of your assesments Best of luck!

Thank you! We're getting a lot of love! Just need to solve distribution. ;P

I can’t tell if serious or not, but I threw up in my mouth a little regardless.

Dead serious.

I’m now similarly conflicted between wanting to say congratulations or condolences.

I guess it would be heplful for me to understand what you're basing it on, then I can guide you in the most appropriate direction!

No you didn't rebrand RedwoodJS. You just silently abandoned it. The doc is not even be revised for the proclaimed new name. Paying for vendor to be locked-in into well-funded platform should not be considered as a bad choice after all.

redwoodjs.com has a very clear letter of intent on the homepage. Our community forum has a description. Our document has a header that describes this.

I'm not sure that you really appreciate that RedwoodJS is open source, and if you cared as much as you're pointing out to care, then you would have opened a bunch of PR requests to help us out. I'm still open to that, so please why don't you help us?

The clarity was not available before the flashy new website and video for SDK are disclosed. Everything was kept in secret from the community for half a year.

So this is an outsiders perspective, and I would love to give you a first hand account. I've invited you to chat on a video-call.

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