Hello everyone!
It’s been far too long since you last heard from me. As some of you know, last October Tom, DT, and I began fundraising for PWV, which became an all-encompassing effort and led to many months of my silence here. The good news is that PWV is doing well, and I’m now a full-time VC! (pros/cons 
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I’m no longer leading the Redwood project or active on the Core Team, which I’ll explain further below. I’d still love to stay in touch. I can’t help with Redwood anymore. But if you ever want to talk startups, have intros to founders, or want to catch up, reach out: david@pwv.com
Redwood Changed My Life
I hope it changed yours, too. I’m so grateful for Redwood and each of you in this community. It was a defining inflection point for me. From day one, Redwood has always been both a codebase and a collaborative community. Our culture emphasized generosity and gratitude: we believed (and proved) that by helping each other succeed, Redwood itself would be successful. You returned that trust many times over: investing your time, contributing your talents, and building your livelihoods on Redwood.
Thank you. 
I still can’t believe we built a brand-new framework that so many people used to create real apps, products, and even entire startups. Some of you launched ventures, raised funding, and hired people from this community—people who themselves “leveled up” through contributing. It’s all amazing. But it’s the relationships and friendships we’ve formed that mean the most to me. Projects come and go; people remain.
I want to recognize everyone who has served on the Core Team, legends each and every one:
@rob @peterp @alicelovescake @giannelli.tech @ahaywood @ajcwebdev @PantheRedEye @chrisvdm @clairefro @danny @dthyresson @dom @forresthayes @Josh-Walker-GM @keith.t.elliott @kimadeline @KrisCoulson @noire.munich @bitshift @Robert @realStandal @simoncrypta @Tobbe @arimendelow @orta @ninasong (did I miss anyone?!?)
And none of this would have happened without you, @mojombo, whose drive to create opportunities for others is truly limitless. Thank you, Tom, for making such a huge impact on so many through your vision, ambition, and generosity!
So, What Happened?
You’ve all seen the milestones achieved across our community—there’s so much to celebrate. At the same time, we never quite reached “escape velocity” to make Redwood self-sustaining. We pivoted to big ideas, like adopting React Server Components (RSC) early to stay on the leading edge. That turned out to be as challenging as it was promising. Morale suffered with what became the long grind of 2024, and it became clear Redwood needed focused leadership right when we founders were being pulled elsewhere. Despite heroic efforts from the Core Team—especially Tobbe—the RSC milestone remained “just a couple of months away” for over a year. It’s the builder’s siren song: you keep pushing, hoping the next breakthrough is near, until your team and momentum break first. It became clear we needed to take a radically new approach.
Redwood’s Next Epoch (for realz this time)
Enter Peter! A Redwood founder from the early days, he rejoined us last September as a Core Team member after building his own startup on Redwood. He’s now leading Redwood not only as an open-source project but as a stand-alone company! He has an evolved vision for Redwood’s future—one rooted in the original ethos we’ve always cared about with new ideas for what it can become.
Things got quiet because we didn’t have a clear plan yet, and we didn’t want to sound any alarms before we knew which direction Redwood would take. That process took longer than expected. Apologies for the radio silence. The good news is that Peter has been steadily prototyping and has recently hit some exciting milestones (see links to announcements below). Yes, there’s risk ahead and more radical change in store, but it’s backed by a solid foundation and a dedicated team. Regardless, please know there is still an open invitation to participate, collaborate, and shape Redwood’s future if you wish.
Next Steps
To learn more, you’ll want to read the announcement @peterp posted on the RedwoodJS home page:
Today, we’re sharing an important step forward for Redwood. To achieve our vision of empowering the next generation of personal software, we’re aligning our efforts around two clearly defined paths: Redwood GraphQL and Redwood SDK.
From the start, RedwoodJS was built to simplify full-stack web development. We’ve seen incredible growth and community enthusiasm, but it’s clear we have an opportunity to pursue a broader challenge: enabling people to build, own, and distribute their own software without the constraints of traditional SaaS.
To fully pursue this vision, we’re launching Redwood SDK, a new framework that will become the foundation for this personal software revolution. We’ll be sharing more about this in the weeks to come.
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The full announcement is here:
Then you should dive in to the new project docs and join the conversation on Redwood’s Discord Server:
Over to you, Peter 
This project is no longer in my (or Tom or Rob’s) hands. I trust Redwood will thrive under my friend @peterp’s leadership. I can’t wait to see the next chapter of Redwood’s journey—and I hope you’ll join him (and each other) in writing it.
Stay the course,
David