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Can Hasura's APIs Link the World's Data?

Aviral Bhatnagar and team · A Junior VC Free Advanced India

A careful Indian teardown of the open source route to community-led growth: GitHub stars to contributors to Fortune 500 buyers, all through one bottom-up funnel, and honest about how rare that has been outside Hasura and Postman.

  • Hasura downloads compounded from 2 million in 2019 to 100 million in 2020, 250 million in 2021 and 500-plus million in 2022.
  • The open-core economics: roughly 3 to 10 percent of the free community converts to paying customers.
  • It went open source in early 2019 and monetized premium features on consumption pricing, keeping developer use free.
  • Positioned as a universal proxy layer between databases and frontends, complementing Prisma and Apollo rather than replacing them.
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The question it answers

  1. Community-led growth gets talked about endlessly. Which companies actually did it, and what did it take?

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