Hi readers 👋, welcoming you back to the "Appwrite OSS Fund" series, where we celebrate open-source maintainers. 🎉
🤔 What Is OSS Fund?
On the 4th of May, the Appwrite team launched the OSS Fund, an initiative to support open-source project maintainers. Being an open-source company, we wanted to give back to the community and help as many people as we can.
The OSS Fund is an initiative that is very close to our heart.
Hear what our Founder and CEO has to say - The Appwrite Story:
Announcing the Appwrite OSS Fund - Appwrite
Appwrite is a backend-as-a-service platform that provides developers with all the core APIs required to build any application.
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📢 Announcing The Nineteenth Project
After careful considerations from the committee we are thrilled to announce the nineteenth project:
🤔 What Is Rallly?
Rallly is a scheduling and collaboration tool that tackles a universally encountered problem - finding an ideal time for a group to meet. Be it a business conference, social outing, or family get-together, Rallly simplifies the process by offering an intuitive space for users to propose and vote on potential dates and times.
🤝 Meet The Maintainer
Luke, who is a full-stack developer from Malta, is the creator of Rallly. Over the course of his 14 year career,he has been involved in every aspect of product development, which includes UI/UX design, front-end and back-end development, as well as devops. His passion lies in creating efficient, time-saving tools and designing beautiful, user-friendly interfaces.
🚘 The Journey So Far
Luke built Rallly in 2015 and launched it on Product Hunt (8 years ago). He built the first version using the MEAN stack. He maintained it in his spare time after that initial launch until 2022. When he noticed the demand for a Doodle alternative was growing, he decided to work on it full-time for a few months while he redesigned and rebuilt it with Next.js, Prisma, tRPC and tailwind. After the relaunch, Luke received lots of great feedback from users and new users started coming in. He decided to continue working on it full-time ever since and is working on finding ways to grow and sustain future development for this project.
🗒️ Ending Notes
As Luke continues to build Rallly for the open source community, we want to thank maintainers like him for contributing back to the community.
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