We are excited to announce that our GitHub repository crossed 10,000 stargazers. It has been an amazing journey building ToolJet alongside our energet

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2022-05-16 12:00:09

We are excited to announce that our GitHub repository crossed 10,000 stargazers. It has been an amazing journey building ToolJet alongside our energetic and involved community. In this article, we will discuss about our learnings from this fast-paced journey of building an open-source product that the community loves.

The first commit to our GitHub repository was on March 31, 2021, and we made the repository public on June 7, 2021, and launched it on Hackernews.

The first commit to the repository was on March 31st, 2021. Most of the April was spent on pushing more and more commits to the repository. Major challenges were to get the drag and drop builder working.

I reached out to a few companies that I had relationships with to try out ToolJet and worked more on iterating ToolJet based their feedback. Some of my friends also stepped in to help build ToolJet by contributing to the repository. At this point, the repository was private.

At the beginning of May, I tried to reach out to angel investors/VC firms and applied for Y Combinator but everyone rejected since there was no traction to convince the idea. I've written about this in detail in this article: Building and launching ToolJet.