Metabase is so fantastic - the guys who wrote it (originally called Caravel) met us in the AirBnB building when we were an early user - easily among my top 5 “m

Metabase is so fantastic - the guys who wrote it (originally called Caravel) met us in the AirBnB building when we were an early user - easily among my top 5 “most impressed” moments in the industry so far. I highly recommend it for absolutely anyone using SQL as their source of truth. Set up a read slave, host metabase, spend a week making pretty charts, make the C-suite love you forever. I’m pretty impressed to see this list from a VC firm! While we’ve pivoted to more consumer friendly tools and less dev-tools (for now), I’m still working my butt off to make a future where self-hosted software (open source or not) can at least survive and ideally compete. I see three viable options: make it easier to install/manage in a users cloud (ala ReplicateD), make it easier for open source devs to host a paying user’s instance (ala rolling your own Stripe + AWS setup) and/or make it easier to physically ship preloaded plug-n-play hardware (my startup!) If you’re an author of self-hosted software or anything on this list, feel free to reach out if you’re interested!