Hey, had been working on these last few months. It's a way to build web apps with Rust's type safety without depending on complex build systems (only cargo). It's less than 800 lines of code total, has no dependencies but supports routing, reactivity and async that I needed to build meaningful web apps with it
I build one of these visual frameworks too (https://www.ondiagram.com/) and I agree completely with the author.
People think it's a good idea because it will save them time and I get many messages about different questions, use cases and support but the reality is you trade convenience for risk that something will be missing. What most people really want is a boilerplate for the SaaS, some building blocks for their UI and to not think about deployments.
VCs love this too, and many reach out, especially a couple of years ago. Maybe they know something I don't, maybe it was just phase.
Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which means "unpleasant person" in British English slang): "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."
Companies love opportunities for sponsorship to get promotion (and status) back. That means unless ideologically opposed almost all small open-source projects will get a larger company to backed them up. I think there are more direction and governance issues than financial.
I created a redux wrapper for my side projects. I used it in 2 projects already and so far it does the job.
The thing was to have a no-boilerplate library for state management that is compatible with redux. Then, when complex reducers or sagas are needed I can just replace it with redux with out re-writing all state management code.