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DataStax just bought our startup Langflow

107 points by rodrigonader 3y ago

rodrigonader 3y ago
Rodrigo from Langflow here! I've been itching to share this news with everyone on HN, and it’s very timely given it's happening on YC Demo Day. Best of luck to all the founders demoing today! My co-founder Gabriel and I have been building Langflow 24/7 for over a year now. We're a small, fully bootstrapped team based down in Brazil, and honestly, it was so wild to fly up to SF for the first time to meet the DataStax team in person and get this deal done. You dream about this kind of stuff when you're up at 3am fixing a `pip install` bug, and it's hard to believe it's happening. Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic. Our mission is to make it easier for more and more developers to build AI applications, and DataStax fully supports this because more developers == more AI apps in production. We would be nowhere without our amazing community. Thank you so much for helping us make Langflow what it is and in the coming months our plan is to make Langflow simpler and more fun to use. Happy to answer any questions!
- prabhatjha 3y ago
  Congrats to you and team. Looking forward to awesome stuff you all build as part of this partnership.
  - ogabrielluiz 3y ago
    Gabriel from the Langflow team here. We are too! This is going to be really good for the community.
- cedricklunven 3y ago
  Congratulations ! It will help any integration with external tools thanks to all the connectors included. It also makes pipelines so easy to change
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
  > Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic. Hard to make a bold claim like this when you’re no longer calling the shots. Or did you get that in contract as part of your deal?
  - rodrigonader 3y ago
    Thanks for the comment - this is important to disclaim: Actually, it's in DataStax's best interests for Langflow to remain free, open source, and vendor agnostic, so they're making that claim too! That is what attracted developers to Langflow in the first place and the reason why we have such a big community. DataStax wants more developers to build on AI and we want to help developers do this, and we don't see that changing.
    - Solvency 3y ago
      So it's not in contract...
      - davefisher-oo 3y ago
        DataStax has supported open source throughout its history. Examples include, but are not limited to, Apache Cassandra and Apache Pulsar which are core to DataStax business.
        ycombinatrix 3y ago
        Microsoft has also supported open source for a long time. It still counts even if it was part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" right?
    - ycombinatrix 3y ago
      not to rain on your parade, but it was also in HashiCorp's best interest to keep Terraform free & open...until it wasn't. also see Amazon + Elasticsearch. i don't think you're in a position to be making claims about a product that you no longer control.
- CorporateGrunt 3y ago
  Truly excited for how this amazing partnership will exponentially enhance us Devs as a community as well as the world utilizing these better built ideas!
- nicechianti 3y ago
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davefisher-oo 3y ago
Very exciting news!
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cristhianzl 3y ago
Feeling very happy and excited about what is currently happening and what is to come next.. :)
crabasa 3y ago
Hey folks I'm the Head of DevRel @ DataStax here and just wanted to share to the HN community that in conjunction with this big acquisition news, the LF team has shipped 1.0-alpha of Langflow. It's a simple `pip install` and the team would love any and all feedback! https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow/ https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow/
ck_one 3y ago
Is this an acquisition or an acquihire?
- zwaps 3y ago
  the latter would not be very smart seeing that Langflow is pretty much one of like three viable alternatives for what it does in a potentially giganormous market
efnx 3y ago
First off - congrats! This is the first I’ve heard of langflow. From the link it looks like an open source, visual … editor … for running and possibly training models? Or doing prompt engineering? Please forgive my ignorance. My question is actually about the acquisition. What was langflow’s business model before the acquisition? Why would datastax acquire instead of donate? Essentially, is there a specific direction datastax wants to take the project, or was this a special deal to acquihire the talent?
gigatexal 3y ago
Cool, congrats. How much did y'all get?
pravinbhat 3y ago
Congrats & exciting indeed! Looking fwd to see what DataStax & LangFlow do together.
pkaler 3y ago
(Aside: My goodness, Medium has gotten terrible. The article will not scroll for me because of some random overlay that won't dismiss. Why do publishers stay on Medium? I regret it every time I click a link.)
chiragrshah 3y ago
Great News....
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107 points by rodrigonader 3y ago

Rodrigo from Langflow here! I've been itching to share this news with everyone on HN, and it’s very timely given it's happening on YC Demo Day. Best of luck to all the founders demoing today! My co-founder Gabriel and I have been building Langflow 24/7 for over a year now. We're a small, fully bootstrapped team based down in Brazil, and honestly, it was so wild to fly up to SF for the first time to meet the DataStax team in person and get this deal done. You dream about this kind of stuff when you're up at 3am fixing a `pip install` bug, and it's hard to believe it's happening. Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic. Our mission is to make it easier for more and more developers to build AI applications, and DataStax fully supports this because more developers == more AI apps in production. We would be nowhere without our amazing community. Thank you so much for helping us make Langflow what it is and in the coming months our plan is to make Langflow simpler and more fun to use. Happy to answer any questions!

prabhatjha 3y ago
Congrats to you and team. Looking forward to awesome stuff you all build as part of this partnership.
- ogabrielluiz 3y ago
  Gabriel from the Langflow team here. We are too! This is going to be really good for the community.
cedricklunven 3y ago
Congratulations ! It will help any integration with external tools thanks to all the connectors included. It also makes pipelines so easy to change
SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
> Langflow will forever be free, open-source, and agnostic. Hard to make a bold claim like this when you’re no longer calling the shots. Or did you get that in contract as part of your deal?
- rodrigonader 3y ago
  Thanks for the comment - this is important to disclaim: Actually, it's in DataStax's best interests for Langflow to remain free, open source, and vendor agnostic, so they're making that claim too! That is what attracted developers to Langflow in the first place and the reason why we have such a big community. DataStax wants more developers to build on AI and we want to help developers do this, and we don't see that changing.
  - Solvency 3y ago
    So it's not in contract...
    - davefisher-oo 3y ago
      DataStax has supported open source throughout its history. Examples include, but are not limited to, Apache Cassandra and Apache Pulsar which are core to DataStax business.
      - ycombinatrix 3y ago
        Microsoft has also supported open source for a long time. It still counts even if it was part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" right?
  - ycombinatrix 3y ago
    not to rain on your parade, but it was also in HashiCorp's best interest to keep Terraform free & open...until it wasn't. also see Amazon + Elasticsearch. i don't think you're in a position to be making claims about a product that you no longer control.
CorporateGrunt 3y ago
Truly excited for how this amazing partnership will exponentially enhance us Devs as a community as well as the world utilizing these better built ideas!
nicechianti 3y ago
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davefisher-oo 3y ago

Very exciting news!

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cristhianzl 3y ago

Feeling very happy and excited about what is currently happening and what is to come next.. :)

crabasa 3y ago

Hey folks I'm the Head of DevRel @ DataStax here and just wanted to share to the HN community that in conjunction with this big acquisition news, the LF team has shipped 1.0-alpha of Langflow. It's a simple `pip install` and the team would love any and all feedback! https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow/ https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow/

ck_one 3y ago

Is this an acquisition or an acquihire?

zwaps 3y ago
the latter would not be very smart seeing that Langflow is pretty much one of like three viable alternatives for what it does in a potentially giganormous market

efnx 3y ago

First off - congrats! This is the first I’ve heard of langflow. From the link it looks like an open source, visual … editor … for running and possibly training models? Or doing prompt engineering? Please forgive my ignorance. My question is actually about the acquisition. What was langflow’s business model before the acquisition? Why would datastax acquire instead of donate? Essentially, is there a specific direction datastax wants to take the project, or was this a special deal to acquihire the talent?

gigatexal 3y ago

Cool, congrats. How much did y'all get?

pravinbhat 3y ago

Congrats & exciting indeed! Looking fwd to see what DataStax & LangFlow do together.

pkaler 3y ago

(Aside: My goodness, Medium has gotten terrible. The article will not scroll for me because of some random overlay that won't dismiss. Why do publishers stay on Medium? I regret it every time I click a link.)

chiragrshah 3y ago

Great News....

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