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Thanks swyx! We'd love to do that session "data engineering for ai engineers", will make you an intro to the right person in the team.

Ah ah indeed!

Thank you!

It's only available in Cloud, but we'll make it available in OSS, there is some extra work to make it happen.

It's been a long journey, but at the same time, still is the beginning.

I loved the "How cool is AJ?" part of the demo ;) !

We are too! Thanks!

4 years!! And it's just the beginning! Thanks for the support!

Thanks!

Thanks!!

Let us know how it works on your end!

Looks super interesting!

Hi team! I'm one of the Airbyte co-founders. I think it might be worth chatting regarding the license indeed :). Don't hesitate to reach out to me on our Slack "John (Airbyte)"

Happy that was helpful!

(Airbyte co-founder here, so you can get first-hand feedback on this)

Here's what we did:

- select the 3 top alternative tools

- look at databases of tech stacks (https://stackshare.io/ is one), the company websites where any logos were mentioned, anywhere we could get an info that this company was using one of the alternative tools

- then did 4. 5. 6. 7. in the steps mentioned in this article

- https://airbyte.com/blog/how-to-create-awareness-with-no-tim...

- in the messaging, saying that you are building an open-source version of that alternative tool they're using helps a ton if you're reaching out to a technical audience. also, don't forget to personalize the message you're sending with the tool they're using name, company, etc. so it doesn't seem too automated, but more authentic.

One other thing that helped in our case was that we built a previous product before and asked to be introduced to their data team, but most of the interviews were scheduled by the methodology above.

Hope that helps!

Oh what was not working with Airbyte? (Airbyte co-founder that is very interested to see how we can improve it ;) )

Hi! Here's how we think about it. Given the economical context, I would say pricing becomes a strong argument. It's also one of the reasons we built the program, it's a way for us to give back to the community.

Having more usage on our side will help us tremendously at bringing all those connectors to higher reliability standards as we're exposed to more and more use cases. We do believe most people will be willing to pay for reliability and will stay with us when those connectors will become GA. We will also give a grace period for them to switch if they want to (I guess Airbyte Open Source will be the best alternative then :) )

Yep. Airbyte is the leading open-source solution (with a Cloud hosted solution too). Fivetran is the leading closed-sourced one.

Open source makes it the solution future-proof, in the sense that it will address your future long-tail or custom needs, while a closed-source solution won't which will require you to build/maintain connectors in-house again.

We'll get to that maturity level! Which database was that out of curiosity?

Airbyte! We're hiring a ton. We raised a Seed / Series-A / Series-B last year, so have a great runway to achieve our vision to become the data movement standard. The current context is even favorable to our open-source approach. Since we started Airbyte in July 2020, Airbyte has been used by 20k+ companies to move data from APIs, databases, files to data warehouses, lakes, DBs, etc.

We now have 40 job openings as we're growing the team from 30 people in January to 200 by the end of the year (we're already at 80). Take a look! https://boards.greenhouse.io/airbyte

hey everyone! Airbyte co-founder here.

We started Airbyte in July 2020 as an open-source approach to address the ever-growing data integration problem. We felt that the current ELT solutions were not solving the problem at all. Fast forward to today and we're super thankful to our community, without which we couldn't have this vision to power all data movement including the long tail.

Happy to answer any questions you might have :)!

Michel and I are also hosting a live session on Monday 01/11 where we will show the community the pitch we gave investors to raise that round. Don't hesitate to sign up: https://app.livestorm.co/airbyte/behind-the-curtain-of-airby...

That’s the current focus of the team. Consolidating those connectors :)

Might be worth looking into Airbyte!

Interesting article!

Congrats to the Preset team! Superset and Preset are just getting better and better!

That's a great idea, really fit for an open-source use case as there are so many integrations to build. Thanks for this!

Don't hesitate to let us know in our Slack if you post again on HackerNews so we can be more responsive :).

Thanks!

Honestly great work on the format! You can easily skim through and understand all your points by looking just at the graphics.

Interesting. Where are you located? Thanks!