Absolutely agree. That is why we are working on making the Nordcraft editor open source and we write blog posts like this to hope to get more people to see that we need better tools.

If you are just one tool are not going to have meainingful change.

Okay, there’s no “working on” open sourcing your app. You could just open source it.

What you really mean is that you’re looking into how you can open source just enough to create a free-to-paid entrapment pathway. You’ll do open source if you can provide a product where all of your users eventually hit a wall and need to upgrade to a paid plan.

A more honest answer from you would have been “we are just looking to provide a solution” rather than pretending to be working on a true open tooling ecosystem.

Don’t pretend to be open source as in Linux or git when you’re really open source as in MongoDB or Chef Software.

the editor is currently closely coupled to our hosting platform which is built on top of cloudflare. we want the open source version to be independant of that