I think you misunderstood that sentence. Formbricks is Open Source under the AGPLv3 license and always will. It's not "Source available, it's open source.
And to be able to maintain the open-source codebase in the long run and finance the work we and other team members & core contributors put into the product, we are developing features beyond the Open Source version that we charge larger businesses for. But this doesn't affect the open source version under AGPLv3, just makes it better because we can pay a team to maintain this.
Thank you! For us, the decision to go open source wasn't about having a competitive advantage, it was more about the open source community that we love being a part of.
But of course there are pros and cons to being open source. Being open source can be an advantage in this highly competitive SaaS game because it allows you to spread your (free) product much more easily around the world as developers and companies tinker with it.
It also allows us to have a much shorter feedback loop with our users and community, which is crucial for an early startup.
In addition, as an open source product, you are the first choice for privacy-conscious customers such as government agencies that want to host themselves.
The main downside, of course, is that building a commercial product is also harder in the sense that you're competing with your own free product, and it's often hard to find the line between free and paid without losing on both ends.
We are currently working on an improved version of the formbricks-js sdk that is optimized for public websites.
It is expected to be released next week and will allow you to trigger surveys on different parts of your app with code & no-code triggers.
:-D thank you!
We will start working on the mobile SDKs soon and Flutter + React Native are highest on the list!
Please also feel free to submit a feature request for this on Github; perhaps a contributor would like to take it up sooner.
No, it requires Javascript. Our goal is to avoid survey fatigue and not annoy users, so by default a user will only be shown a survey once a week, and only surveys they haven't answered or seen before and closed before.
Also since it can be self-hosted, it can be served from the same domain as the application within the survey. We also see the surveys as part of the application and a necessary part for the maintainers to provide their service.
And to be able to maintain the open-source codebase in the long run and finance the work we and other team members & core contributors put into the product, we are developing features beyond the Open Source version that we charge larger businesses for. But this doesn't affect the open source version under AGPLv3, just makes it better because we can pay a team to maintain this.