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Comment by jamesmcintyre

8base looks really interesting and I'm glad you're filling a space which the Prisma folks left by reducing focus on graph.cool.

One question, is your underlying platform currently (or to be) open source? I ask because it was reassuring when graph.cool put their entire graph.cool backend framework open source so that it felt even less like potential lock-in.

I know the fact that it's standard graphql means there's already a certain level of portability but if you build-up all this functionality in your BaaS there's potentially a lot of lock-in there.

Lastly, your pricing seems high for, say, a dev who's want to build a SaaS that'd sell to potentially many enterprise users. Maybe you do not want to target that demographic?

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