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ToolJet
Company blog · blog.tooljet.comprogrammingstartupsweb
ToolJet is the company blog at blog.tooljet.com, writing about programming, startups and web. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “From zero to 10k stargazers on GitHub”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The comment asks how ToolJet can relicense AGPL contributions, quoting its AGPL announcement about a commercial license. It concerns the licensing terms, not the quality of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explore insights, tutorials, and updates on low-code development and application creation. Stay informed with ToolJet's latest blog posts!
Most-linked posts?
- From zero to 10k stargazers on GitHub2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-16
- ToolJet's flexible pricing for self-hosted customers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-20
What Hacker News says?
We recently migrated ToolJet ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421408)'s server from Ruby ( Rails ) to TypeScript ( Nest.js ). Our goal was to have only one language in our stack so that it will be easy for the open-source contributors. I have been working as a Ruby dev since 2015 and I really love Ruby. Initially I thought we might miss a lot of things when we switch to TS. But it turned out to be a great de…
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on “Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?”Submitted Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project as a story · 156 points
HN discussionThe part where I begged for funding is another story: https://blog.tooljet.com/raising-vc-funding-for-open-source-... Also the link to HN launch that helped a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421408
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on “Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?”Submitted ToolJet's flexible pricing for self-hosted customers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI've written another article that explains how we raised seed round here: https://blog.tooljet.com/raising-vc-funding-for-open-source-...
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on “Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?”Submitted Building a cryptocurrency dashboard using low-code in 10 minutes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionStack matters a lot if the project is open-source. We migrated ToolJet's backend from Rails to node after the beta launch last year. We've documented the thoughts behind out decision here: https://blog.tooljet.com/migrating-toojet-from-ruby-on-rails... . The benefits that we got: - Contributions from around 200 contributors so far. - We built a plugin system and plugin development kit that helps community build plug…
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on “Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project”Submitted Popular products and the rise of their OSS alternatives as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWrote a while ago about how we built a VC backed open-source business: https://blog.tooljet.com/raising-vc-funding-for-open-source-... .
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on “How to build an open-source business (2021)”Submitted From zero to 10k stargazers on GitHub as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe've written about this choice on our blog in detail: https://blog.tooljet.com/changing-license-to-agpl/ .
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on “Show HN: ToolJet 2.0 – Open-source alternative to Power Apps and Retool”Submitted Understanding the low-code vs no-code debate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHow can ToolJet relicense AGPL contributions to a less restrictive license? The code is AGPL and accepts volunteer contributions under that license. https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING... However, in their AGPL announcement it says: > We do have a commercial license that overrides the AGPL license. This commercial license allows organizations to make changes to ToolJet and provide it as a se…
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on “Show HN: ToolJet 2.0 – Open-source alternative to Power Apps and Retool”Submitted ToolJet Secures Funding from Microsoft to build open-source Retool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing between usage vs. user based pricing for self-hosted as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growing from zero to 10k stargazers on GitHub as a story · 1 points
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