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Congrats on launching, and thank you for open sourcing! I've added your codebase to my list of open source React/Go applications to check out.

1. Do you worry that open sourcing will make it difficult for you to monetize?

2. Can you describe your tech stack more?

3. How long has your team been working on this?




1. We don't! We suspect that many companies running devices in production would rather pay for a hosted version of Deviceplane than have to maintain their own self-hosted install. We also offer support subscriptions of self-hosted installs.

2. If I had to summarize in one word, Golang. Our backend, agent, and CLI are all written in Go.

Frontend is React + a custom component library we maintain.

On the infrastructure side it's quite simple: RDS, containers running on ECS, and an ALB load balancer. We built Deviceplane to be simple to host and since we just run the open source version it means our own infrastructure is simple.

3. We've been working on this since around August!


Thanks!

I ran the `docker run ...` command you copy/pasted above and got the UI running quickly.

But, I couldn't install the agent on my Mac; perhaps macOS is not supported. This may be intentional, after all you're not building a desktop MDM tool, but I'd suggest providing a command to run an agent inside a Docker container (or something else).

This way people like me can start experimenting with DevicePlane without spinning up a Linux VM or EC2 instance.




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