Open Weaver Launches kandi to Jump-start Application Development

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Below is our recent interview with Ashok Balasubramanian, CEO of Open Weaver:

Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to Open Weaver?

A: Open Weaver is a one year old SaaS Tech startup. We are headquartered in New York, and our product development center is in Chennai, India.

We believe that the digital transformation wave is here to stay and will only exponentially grow. This has further been strengthened by the pandemic where we see digital businesses thrive at legacy businesses’ cost.

While the digital demand is robust, how digital is built is still legacy. We have millions of developers writing code every time to create experiences. While the cloud has ensured that no one builds a custom server anymore, we do not see that ease in the applications space.

Open Weaver was born with that singular vision to reinvent digital realization, to simply put it: improve the way applications are built. We have a multi-year roadmap to usher in improved methods of digital development.

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Q: You’ve recently announced the launch of kandi, a platform that jumpstarts application development; can you tell us something more?

A: kandi is our first step in our journey of making digital development better. We all know that there are millions of developers writing code every day. We all probably know that there are over 50 million software components available for public reuse across open source providers, public repositories, and cloud API providers.

While no one today builds a physical server from scratch, the reuse of these 50 million software components is abysmally low, save a few hundred popular ones. We spent time with developers to understand this at a deeper level. Unlike cloud or other software products, the developers are simultaneously creators and consumers in the software component space. So, just a couple of provider marketplaces like what’s happening in the cloud infrastructure space cannot do justice to this volume, variety, and formats of software components.

We have created kandi as a global software component discovery and reuse platform. kandi seamlessly integrates all open source, repository, package, cloud API providers, user communities, in total representing over 430 million knowledge items, that enable you to pick the suitable reusable software component.

Q: Can you give us more insights into your features?

A: kandi’s sole focus is to empower developers to jumpstart their application development through reusability. Towards this, kandi brings in the below unique features:

1. Universal coverage enabling you to tap global knowledge. kandi covers all open source, repository, package, cloud API providers, review, Q&A platforms to get the most relevant component to the developer’s requirements.
2. Multi-dimensional natural language search helps you focus on requirements, while kandi translates it across 430 million knowledge items covering different software asset types and industry domains to get you the best-fit components.
3. Ratings and Guides to help you reuse the suitable component. kandi provides scores computed by our patent-pending algorithms across quality, security, license, support availability, and guides across code snippets, community discussions, and installation to help you choose and reuse the right component.
4. Collections and Starter Kits that simplify adoption choices. kandi provides for collections across multiple technologies and industries for you to reuse or leverage as inputs into your application design in that industry or technology.

Try kandi here.

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Q: Who is your ideal user and why?

A: Our goal is to serve every developer across the globe. Given the product features we’ve released so far, and the localizations that we’ve implemented, kandi would benefit developers who are pro open source and cloud, with English knowledge.

Q: What can we expect from Open Weaver in next six months? What are your plans?

A: Our goal of making digital development easy is a broad one, and we have multiple releases scheduled over the next few years towards this goal. We are also investing in core research to enable this. We filed for fourteen patents this year and are working on further innovations to empower developers. Stay tuned!