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How to turn a side project into a startup?

Bram Wiepjes, Founder & CEO ● Sep 30th, 2025

In this episode of Devico Breakfast Bar Podcast, Oleg Sadikov, the co-founder and CEO at Devico & DeviQA, sits down with Bram Wiepjes, founder and CEO at Baserow. Bram reveals how he turned a side project into an open-source no-code platform competing with Airtable and raised $5.16M in a Seed round. Bram shares the early lessons of balancing freelance work with startup building, why open source became his differentiator against giants like Airtable, and how AI is reshaping the future of no-code development.

Episode highlights:

Why enterprises are demanding open-source, self-hosted no-code tools
How to ship features on time while scaling a startup
The real advantages and trade-offs of IT outsourcing
Why AI and no-code are becoming perfectly complementary
What founders should know about hiring and listening to investors

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