Appsmith - Open source internal app builder, ship 10X faster | Product Hunt

Open source internal app builder, ship 10X faster

Hey Product Hunters, 👋

I, @nikhil_nandagopal1, and @mohanarpit launched Appsmith as an open-source project on Github in 2020 to help developers build custom internal apps over their data sources to empower the various teams inside an organization to perform business-critical tasks.

We also wanted Appsmith to be widely adopted and released under the Apache 2 license (the most permissive open-source license).

Since then, Appsmith has been used by over 100,000+ developers worldwide, forked 2.3k times, and gathered 25,000 ⭐ on GitHub.

This “low-code” approach allows companies to balance the need between building, maintaining, and deploying applications quickly while saving hours of engineering bandwidth.

And in all this time, our team has never launched Appsmith on PH. So here we are!

Why use Appsmith? 🖥️ Build a web app that talks to multiple databases and any SaaS API quickly

⏩ Build apps to “run” your business. Be it support, operations, marketing/sales, or any other teams. Here’s just a small example of use cases (https://www.appsmith.com/use-cases)

🤟 Extend the functionalities of your existing SaaS applications (like Salesforce etc.) and existing custom applications (like React) by embedding Appsmith inside them

🤩 Appsmith comes with 45+ performant and highly customizable UI widgets that you can drag and drop to create powerful UIs

🛣️ Appsmith supports the most popular DBs (and adding more), SaaS applications, and any REST/GraphQL APIs

⚡ You can even generate an app from your database with just 1 click https://www.appsmith.com/blog/ge...

Use the cloud version or self-host Appsmith on your own infrastructure with 12+ deployment options.

Appsmith is also developer first and comes with a lot of functionalities that are native to the development workflow ⑂ Git-based version control: Commit changes, review pull requests and deploy with your CI/CD 🔥 Write JS anywhere and import custom JS libraries ⚙️ A powerful code editor which comes with an intelligent debugger and autocomplete ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts to further save more time

All this is for free. We have a few features for more advanced users (SAML/OIDC SSO, Granular Access Controls, Custom Branding, Audit Logs, and more). We shudder to call it the Business Plan because it usually just reminds me of sign-up forms that have “contact us,” but our advanced features give you enterprise-grade features at a fraction of the cost. This brings us to pricing.

Appsmith follows a usage-based pricing model, which charges users $0.4/hour with a cap of $20/user, and you get access to ALL our features. We believe tools like Appsmith should be shared across the organization without worrying about budgets.

We’ve only grown thus far because of the support of our community of users that love us. We would love your support and any feedback to help us serve you better.

Thank you so much Kevin, for hunting us.