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)"
(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
- 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.
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.
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
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.