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season: 2
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excerpt: Brandon Roberts shows us all about Appwrite by showing off a cool codingcat.dev application!
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start: June 8, 2022
title: Open Sourcing Your Database with Appwrite
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-eRuG5X7E
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## Questions

1. Brandon can you tell us more about yourself and how you got started with appwrite?
2. Congratulations on appwrite’s [Series A Funding](https://appwrite.io/series-a)!
3. [Appwrite OSS Fund](https://dev.to/appwrite/announcing-the-appwrite-oss-fund-4ilg) how can people get involved?
4. What is the best way to describe appwrite to a frontend developer?
5. Currently there is not a SASS hosting solution for appwrite, will we see this coming soon?
6. Environment Variables and connecting other Oauth providers
7. CLI tool
