Hi HN!<p>We are a team of engineers who previously built the infrastructure and developer tools for self-driving car development at Cruise. We recently launched Foxglove Studio [0] as a better way for roboticists to inspect, visualize and debug robotics data.<p>At Cruise, we found existing visualization tools in the robotics space (rviz, rqt, etc) extremely lacking. They were typically desktop linux (QT) apps, and required the entire autonomous vehicle codebase to be checked out and built locally - meaning they were inaccessible to teams such as operations, QA, and PM/TPMs. In addition, robotics engineers found the workflow of downloading 50gb+ log files to their desktop just to triage an issue painful.<p>As a result, we invested heavily in a web-based replacement - building a better, faster UI for our robotics engineers, while at the same time opening data up to everyone in the organization, so that you can share a link to an event in a Slack thread or Jira ticket, and others can quickly see the exact same view on their own laptop or desktop. Cruise open-sourced part of this work, which some of you may be familiar with (Webviz) [1].<p>Earlier this year, we launched Foxglove Studio, which began as a fork of Webviz. Over the past 6 months, we have been extending Studio with many new visualization panels, first-class extension support, ROS 2 support, an optional desktop app, and internally a port from Flow to Typescript. While Studio began as a fork of Webviz, we see it as a separate product - we're focused on building an extensible, community-first project, and we are taking it in a different direction than Webviz (which is tightly coupled to many internal Cruise systems, and as such is difficult for the community to contribute to).<p>In the future, we're planning to introduce some paid features around team collaboration, data & view sharing, and private extensions. However, the core of Foxglove Studio will always remain free and open source for the robotics community to use.<p>Feel free to check out our GitHub [2] and Changelog [3] for more details on what we've been up to.<p>Happy to answer any questions!<p>[0] <a href="https://foxglove.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://foxglove.dev/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://webviz.io/" rel="nofollow">https://webviz.io/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/foxglove/studio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/foxglove/studio</a><p>[4] <a href="https://github.com/foxglove/studio/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/foxglove/studio/releases</a>