I previously submitted this a few days ago as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290863 but without any contex

I previously submitted this a few days ago as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37290863 but without any context. Reposting it with background around why we decided to make it open-source and our path forward.