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I learned about Appwrite from the entry in the selfh.st newsletter. It looks like an open source (BSD-3 Clause license) alternative to Google's Firebase and other BaaS platforms:

https://appwrite.io/blog/post/open-source-firebase-alternative

I haven't tried it, but it looks neat

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[–] danb@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just might want to be aware they have tens of millions in VC funding, and I've also seen them manipulate self-promotion on Reddit like here.

[–] otters_raft@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yea I don't think I'm going to promote them again :/

Thanks!

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Appwrite and Supabase are both very promising open source "serverless" solutions.