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How did you develop Flows for Directus, what inspired the syntax. |
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Hi, I am following Directus since 2018. If I remember correctly, this was when v7 came out. And that version was a true nightmare, throwing errors all over the place after starting the container. Obviously Directus has come a long way since then, and you guys are doing a great job. Improving year after year. You even implemented OIDC as a free feature, when so many players are claiming it to be "enterprise". So first off, I want to thank the whole team for the work you did and the you will put in. Here are my questions:
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Have really enjoyed discovering and working with Directus over the last month. It had been several years since I explored the space, so I spent some time comparing the (open source and self hosted) options, and the build quality of Directus stands out. Especially when it comes to the admin, which is really what these tools are for. Still, there are a few areas where I think think it could improve, especially to support more use cases. From my perspective these would be:
This isn't meant to be criticism, I've found workarounds for most of my problems so far. But I do wonder if the cloud business model might be holding back some alternative deployment use cases. Obviously, you have to and deserve to make money. And thus whilie this has read so far like a feature request list, it does actually boils down to a company question. What do you think about a dual business model where you keep the cloud, but also offer a multi-site license for extended features on the open source self-hosted option? The multi-site I think would stand out from most other offerings and probably convert a lot of otherwise non-paying developers who have projects that make no/little money. Obviously this isn't exactly a gold mine, but I don't think you would lose much from the cloud offering (I personally would far rather recommend that to a paying client so I don't have to maintain). But it could at the very least pay for focusing on some self-hosted specific concerns and expand the user base (leading to more sales). Just my 2cents. I'm a fan in any case! |
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What is in store for Directus in 2023?Yes, I know the team has more recently been pretty tight lipped about the "timeline" for new features since a sponsorship is required, but we've also sort of ended up with a scenario where new features seem to be releasing in only a very slow trickle. This is not to minimize the huge amount of work I'm sure the team is pouring into Directus right now. It is worth pointing out, however, that a large portion of the features which have been on the roadmap for a while still have yet to materialize. The Wayback Machine is a wonderful thing. As a software developer, I get it. Rarely are we able to get features rolled out in the timeframe we originally expect. What I suggest is to do a monthly update/newsletter like this. It's a really great way to build trust with your community that progress is actually being made towards goals. Just a little bit of insight into what the team is working on each month would go a long way towards making Directus feel like it isn't fizzling out. If new features are getting pushed back because the team is fixing a ton of bugs, you can just say that! "This month we rolled out fixed for over 45 bugs" or whatever. Transparency is critical. |
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Hi
My question is: if we decided to offer a SaaS version of this "aggregate" of Silex+Directus+11ty (a great alternative to webflow), would Directus be happy about it? It would all be open source but maybe competing with directus cloud? Would you rather keep the hosting of Directus but it would make it more complex to setup for the end user? Thank you, vive directus \o/ |
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Oh just so you all know, I recorded a video last week that I'm just editing. But this will be a regular thing so keep questions coming! |
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Nice ❤️🤩 |
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First off: You have build an amazing product for the open-source community - thank you for that !
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I wanted to share with you all the first Community Question Time, featuring questions we got here and elsewhere. https://directus.io/blog/community-question-time-0/ We cover:
We'll do these every few months, and I know we didn't get to every question asked but it was already a 20 min video 😅 But we'll also be doing a regular series with @rijkvanzanten specifically on the technical questions you have (as opposed to Community Question Time, which is more about the organization). ✌🏻 |
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Great video. Even if my personal question/suggestion wasn't directly addressed, the broader issues of how to balance the community (and growing the user base) vs commercial needs were . The takeaway for me was the team seems both competent and that they genuinely care about both. I still think there could be gold in that mine of increasing self hosted use cases (more deployment options open up whole new categories of users, which could translate to $), but it's obviously a risk and you guys are definitely the best ones figure out priorities. |
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Hi All, |
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Hello! I would like to know if there is any idea of making something similar to a GED (electronic document generator)? Like I can generate a word or pdf file based on a template, and the system fills in fields based on variables from my system or database? example: {{street}}, no. {{number}}, {{client_city}}..." I think I managed to explain it. |
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Do you use Directus as CRM for your main company ? We do :) |
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Got a question for the Directus founders? I'll be sitting down with our founders @benhaynes and @rijkvanzanten for a Q&A in a couple of weeks time, so tell us what you want to know!
Given that we are an open source project with a company behind it, I'm particularly interested in questions about the company that maintains the project such as direction, concerns, decision-making, or anything else really.
Reply here or use this form to submit questions. This isn't a one-off either and we plan to do this every few months. So the form and comments thread will remain open. 😇 🐰 💜
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