Appsmith - Open source internal app builder, ship 10X faster

Hey Product Hunters, 👋 I, @nikhil_nandagopal1, and @mohanarpit launched Appsmith as an open-source project on Github in 2020 to help developers build custom internal apps over their data sources to empower the various teams inside an organization to perform business-critical tasks. We also wanted Appsmith to be widely adopted and released under the Apache 2 license (the most permissive open-source license). Since then, Appsmith has been used by over 100,000+ developers worldwide, forked 2.3k times, and gathered 25,000 ⭐ on GitHub. This “low-code” approach allows companies to balance the need between building, maintaining, and deploying applications quickly while saving hours of engineering bandwidth. And in all this time, our team has never launched Appsmith on PH. So here we are! Why use Appsmith? 🖥️ Build a web app that talks to multiple databases and any SaaS API quickly ⏩ Build apps to “run” your business. Be it support, operations, marketing/sales, or any other teams. Here’s just a small example of use cases (https://www.appsmith.com/use-cases) 🤟 Extend the functionalities of your existing SaaS applications (like Salesforce etc.) and existing custom applications (like React) by embedding Appsmith inside them 🤩 Appsmith comes with 45+ performant and highly customizable UI widgets that you can drag and drop to create powerful UIs 🛣️ Appsmith supports the most popular DBs (and adding more), SaaS applications, and any REST/GraphQL APIs ⚡ You can even generate an app from your database with just 1 click https://www.appsmith.com/blog/ge... Use the cloud version or self-host Appsmith on your own infrastructure with 12+ deployment options. Appsmith is also developer first and comes with a lot of functionalities that are native to the development workflow ⑂ Git-based version control: Commit changes, review pull requests and deploy with your CI/CD 🔥 Write JS anywhere and import custom JS libraries ⚙️ A powerful code editor which comes with an intelligent debugger and autocomplete ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts to further save more time All this is for free. We have a few features for more advanced users (SAML/OIDC SSO, Granular Access Controls, Custom Branding, Audit Logs, and more). We shudder to call it the Business Plan because it usually just reminds me of sign-up forms that have “contact us,” but our advanced features give you enterprise-grade features at a fraction of the cost. This brings us to pricing. Appsmith follows a usage-based pricing model, which charges users $0.4/hour with a cap of $20/user, and you get access to ALL our features. We believe tools like Appsmith should be shared across the organization without worrying about budgets. We’ve only grown thus far because of the support of our community of users that love us. We would love your support and any feedback to help us serve you better. Thank you so much Kevin, for hunting us.

Been a long-time user of Appsmith and as a backend engineer with most of my time going into building CRUD interfaces, I can't imagine the countless hours it has saved me. In particular, I love how Appsmith connects to my git repos

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Greetings! Congratulations on the launch of Appsmith on the Product Hunt! Looks interesting! This is incredibly helpful and will speed up the team's work! Do you intend to monetize your work in the future?

Congratulations on launch @abhishek_nayak2, i have personally used Appsmith and found it very easy to build internal apps quickly

Wow! 25k stars on GitHub; how did I miss this one? Congrats on the launch; we'll definitely check this out this year.

Congratulations on launching Appsmith! I'm excited to see how this low code developer tool will revolutionize the way people create custom software and internal applications!

We use appsmith for all our internal tools , be it customer support or making fast MVPs

Congrats Appsmith team on the launch 🚀 Been a user of Appsmith since last year, and I must say it has an impressive set of features. Top notch UI components, an excellent integration with MongoDB and ability to publish and share projects with granular permissions saved us 10s of engineering hours. Cheers!

Congrats!! Team As a user, I have been a big fan of Appsmith. I will recommend all startups to try out the product before you think of competing products. There is no going back after you start using appsmith

Very useful tool!)

Better than any other internal toold development framework we have used. We are building internal apps for CS ops and finance team using Appsmith and experience has been nothing but smooth

Congrats @abhishek_nayak2

Gamechanger, congrats team on the launch

Great stuff @abhishek_nayak2 , @nikhil_nandagopal1 , @mohanarpit & @rishabhkaul ! Congratulations on the PH launch :)

Congrats on the launch! @abhishek_nayak2

Internal tools are such a large part of running a company and I love how Appsmith has thought through building out its feature set to help developers become more productive. I run an OSS company @BoxyHQ and love that Appsmith is OSS too.

amazing product !

We use Appsmith to create dashboards for our customers. Being an early-stage startup, this has helped us move quickly and save several engineering hours $$! It's powerful and user-friendly, and I highly recommend checking it out!

Congrats team for the launch 🔥 Love your product! I have a few questions about your Appsmith. How do you make sure data is secure? What programming languages can we use to add extra customization/calculations/transformations?