There are talks internally about working towards open-sourcing it, I don't know if/when that'll happen, but it's definitely something we're interested in doing.
We didn't try any of the others, I know that there are quite a few in Golang and Java, but we're pretty python centric at the moment and felt that building it with the tools we have was a better approach.
Taking a remote job and moving to Oregon. I grew up in the mid-west and worked for a family-run real-estate business, it took a lot to leave that environment, but the housing crash of 2008 made it easier as it was a very real possibility that the company would go bankrupt.
I got a remote-job and since I could live anywhere I took the opportunity to also get away from Indiana and I haven't looked back since.
We didn't try any of the others, I know that there are quite a few in Golang and Java, but we're pretty python centric at the moment and felt that building it with the tools we have was a better approach.