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Introducing Appwrite: An Open Source Backend Server for Mobile & Web Developers

Eldad A. Fux on September 07, 2019

Appwrite is a new open-source, end to end backend server for frontend and mobile developers that allows you to build apps a lot faster. Appwrite go...
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David Dal Busco

Congrats for the launch!

I like the idea to offer a simple open source cloud backend solution open to many SDKs (not just JS), that's neat.

I just got one question, where are currently the data stored (country wise)? You already have got clusters around the world?

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Christian Lopez

Amazing! Love seeing open-source projects explained and come to life with success 😻

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Eldad A. Fux

Thank you so much, christian ❤️

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Bogdan Covrig

I am curious if this is your first launch? For how long have you worked on this? I turns out that is a super cool project and I would love to hear more! Subscribed.

Congrats!!

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Eldad A. Fux

Hi Bogdan! Thanks for all the great feedback! This is my first open-source launch. I have been working on this project on and off for about 2 years and had a few products using it in production.

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Bogdan Covrig

Huge inspiration! Looking forward to updates, I will definitely step in issues anytime soon.

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Eldad A. Fux

I couldn't explain it better! Thanks Ivo!

David, if you have any other questions feel free to contact me or comment here :)

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David Dal Busco

All clear thx and again congrats!

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David Dal Busco

I missed that, thank you Ivo for the explanation!

Agree with you, the complete control over the data with the simplicity of what would for example a Firebase offers, is an asset.