Navigating the Challenges of Building a Successful Open-Source Product

Nikhil Rao is Co-Founder of Reflex, the open source framework to build and deploy web apps in python. Their project, also called reflex, has over 22K stars on GitHub and is a library to build full-stack web apps.

Reflex has raised $5M from investors including Lux Capital.

In this episode, we dig into:

• The power of deploying apps using only Python

• Balancing abstraction and code level access for users

• The challenges low code frameworks have had becoming production-grade

• The apps users are building with Reflex

• How he thought about Reflex Cloud

• Their vision to be as big as React