DataStax just bought our startup Langflow

https://medium.com/logspace/langflow-datastax-better-together-1b7462cebc4d

by rodrigonader • 2 years ago

107 24 2 years ago

Rodrigo from Langflow here! I've been itching to share this news with everyone on HN, and it’s very timely given it's happening on YC Demo Day. Best of luck to all the founders demoing today!

My co-founder Gabriel and I have been building Langflow 24/7 for over a year now. We're a small, fully bootstrapped team based down in Brazil, and honestly, it was so wild to fly up to SF for the first time to meet the DataStax team in person and get this deal done. You dream about this kind of stuff when you're up at 3am fixing a `pip install` bug, and it's hard to believe it's happening.

Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic. Our mission is to make it easier for more and more developers to build AI applications, and DataStax fully supports this because more developers == more AI apps in production.

We would be nowhere without our amazing community. Thank you so much for helping us make Langflow what it is and in the coming months our plan is to make Langflow simpler and more fun to use. Happy to answer any questions!

prabhatjha• 2 years ago

Congrats to you and team. Looking forward to awesome stuff you all build as part of this partnership.

ogabrielluiz• 2 years ago

Gabriel from the Langflow team here.

We are too! This is going to be really good for the community.

cedricklunven• 2 years ago

Congratulations ! It will help any integration with external tools thanks to all the connectors included.

It also makes pipelines so easy to change

SOLAR_FIELDS• 2 years ago

Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic.

Hard to make a bold claim like this when you’re no longer calling the shots. Or did you get that in contract as part of your deal?

rodrigonader2• 2 years ago

Thanks for the comment - this is important to disclaim:

Actually, it's in DataStax's best interests for Langflow to remain free, open source, and vendor agnostic, so they're making that claim too!

That is what attracted developers to Langflow in the first place and the reason why we have such a big community. DataStax wants more developers to build on AI and we want to help developers do this, and we don't see that changing.

CorporateGrunt• 2 years ago

Truly excited for how this amazing partnership will exponentially enhance us Devs as a community as well as the world utilizing these better built ideas!

davefisher-oo2• 2 years ago

Very exciting news!

cristhianzl• 2 years ago

Feeling very happy and excited about what is currently happening and what is to come next.. :)

crabasa• 2 years ago

Hey folks I'm the Head of DevRel @ DataStax here and just wanted to share to the HN community that in conjunction with this big acquisition news, the LF team has shipped 1.0-alpha of Langflow.

It's a simple `pip install` and the team would love any and all feedback!

https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow/

ck_one• 2 years ago

Is this an acquisition or an acquihire?

zwaps• 2 years ago

the latter would not be very smart seeing that Langflow is pretty much one of like three viable alternatives for what it does in a potentially giganormous market

efnx• 2 years ago

First off - congrats!

This is the first I’ve heard of langflow. From the link it looks like an open source, visual … editor … for running and possibly training models? Or doing prompt engineering? Please forgive my ignorance.

My question is actually about the acquisition. What was langflow’s business model before the acquisition? Why would datastax acquire instead of donate? Essentially, is there a specific direction datastax wants to take the project, or was this a special deal to acquihire the talent?

gigatexal• 2 years ago

Cool, congrats. How much did y'all get?

pravinbhat• 2 years ago

Congrats & exciting indeed! Looking fwd to see what DataStax & LangFlow do together.

pkaler• 2 years ago

(Aside: My goodness, Medium has gotten terrible. The article will not scroll for me because of some random overlay that won't dismiss. Why do publishers stay on Medium? I regret it every time I click a link.)

chiragrshah• 2 years ago

Great News....

DataStax just bought our startup Langflow

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