It's been about 3 months since I joined UnifyXperts as an intern, and I'm still fairly new to the whole Frappe ecosystem. So when I found out I would be attending Frappeverse this early in my journey, it honestly caught me off guard. I didn't expect something like this to happen so soon.
Honestly, it was not even decided that I would attend Frappeverse 2026. But who knew it would turn out to be one of the best experiences I've had, and I would end up learning so much along the way.
On 20th August, at exactly 4:47 pm, I found out I would be part of Frappeverse. I was thrilled. But along with that excitement, I also had a hint of confusion and nervousness. What should I even expect? I think that is exactly why I am the right person to write this. Someone who walked in as a complete newbie to this ecosystem and can tell you honestly what that felt like.
So let me start with what I actually got to learn and experience.
Day One Set the Tone
It all started on Day 1, at Nehru Centre, which honestly felt like the perfect venue for something like this.
As a Bronze Sponsor, my company UnifyXperts was part of this vibrant community gathering at Stall 6 for straight 2 days. This was the first time my company was exhibiting at an event, and it was my first time too, representing an organisation at something like Frappeverse. I won't lie, as excited as we were, we were also a bit nervous. But the excitement and gratitude overcame it. You know how "firsts" always feel like a bit of a rollercoaster? This one was exactly like that.
Setting up the stall, seeing people walk up, ask questions, and genuinely engage with what we do- that alone made the nervousness worth it.
"Frappe Feels Like a Whole Community Coming Together"
I had heard people say this before. That Frappe feels like home. And honestly, I never fully believed it. I used to think maybe they're just saying this for the camera.
Turns out I was totally wrong.
I could feel it in the atmosphere the moment I was there. The love and passion people had for Frappe products was not performative, but it was real and honest. You could see the whole community trying to genuinely come together, interact, and share ideas and opinions. Nobody was trying to sell anything to anyone. It felt more like a yearly family meetup. From criticism to praise, from debates to honest conversations, all of it happened openly, and everybody got a chance to share what they feel.
Getting a Look at What's Coming Next
As a functional consultant, this part excited me the most. I got to learn about the tools Frappe is planning to launch soon, and my favourite by far was Frappe Flow.
I watched a live demo of how it works, and I was honestly in awe the entire time. Flow is Frappe's take on agentic workflows. Instead of writing a workflow line by line, you get to visually build and connect agents and tools together, and let them run the actual task for you. Watching it string together steps that would normally take a developer hours to script felt like watching something genuinely new take shape in real time. If you want to look under the hood, here's the repo: Frappe Flow.
But the more I sat with it, the more I realised Flow wasn't just a standalone product launch. It was a signal of something bigger happening across the whole ecosystem. Frappe is making use of agentic AI to its full potential, and not just at the developer level. From non-devs to devs, everyone at the event seemed to be building something and showcasing it. People who had never written a line of code were walking around with working prototypes.
That is actually how I found out about another tool that stuck with me. Frappe Draw. Built by a non-dev employee at Frappe. Just let that sink in for a second. Someone with no formal development background built a working tool, using the same agentic capabilities everyone else was talking about, and it was good enough to be shown off at the event. You can check it out here: Frappe Draw.
That, more than anything else, is what made this section of the event special for me. It wasn't just about seeing what Frappe's engineers built. It was seeing what happens when a whole community, technical or not, is handed the same tools and told to go build something.
And it wasn't just individual tools either. What really stood out was Frappe Suite, and how Frappe is trying to bring everything together into one cohesive suite of their own, instead of leaving each product to exist on its own island. If you want to peek at it, here's the repo: Frappe Suite. Watching the pieces I already knew- Flow, Draw, and the rest- start to fit into one bigger picture made the whole direction of the ecosystem feel a lot clearer.
Teamwork and a Real Sense of Togetherness
Before this event, I only knew Frappe as a company building and maintaining open source products. I always had one question in the back of my mind. How were they able to build something this good, this consistently, in such a short timeline?
I got my answer at Frappeverse. I watched the entire Frappe team, from interns to the most senior people, working together to pull this event off. And that's the kind of thing you don't just notice from the outside. You have to be in that atmosphere to actually feel it. There was a genuine love and passion, not just from the Frappe team, but from everyone around, for building and protecting this open source community.
I Got to Grow, Too
Before going, I had a bit of hesitation, honestly. What would I even talk about, as a newbie? Would I be able to keep up with people who had years of experience with Frappe products? Would I be able to hold a real conversation, or would I just end up nodding along?
Thanks to my colleague, who gave me a bit of a push and said it just takes a bit of courage to approach the first person, I did. After that, things started to feel natural. So I would keep this advice with me in any new situation.
But I've learned that pushing myself into things that break my daily routine, things outside my comfort zone, tends to make me more confident. Big thanks to Manan Shah, our Founder and CEO, for even giving me this chance in the first place.
To sum it up, I think this community has a place for everyone. Freshers, veterans, everyone in between. Everyone gets to learn and interact at their own pace. And what I loved most is that people are actually willing to help each other, without any strings attached.
Quality First, Open Source Second
One thing that stood out to me almost immediately, and stayed with me the whole event, was this. Frappe wants people to use ERPNext, or any other Frappe product, because it is genuinely good, not just because it happens to be open source.
That might sound like a small distinction, but it isn't. A lot of open source projects lean on "it's free" as the whole pitch. Frappe doesn't. The quality has to hold up on its own first. Being open source is just what comes with it. And honestly, that itself is a great strategy. It builds trust in a way that a purely "free" pitch never could.
A Small Personal Moment: Talking to Rushabh Mehta
If there's one moment I keep replaying from those two days, it's this one. I got the chance to talk to Rushabh Mehta, the founder of Frappe, and ask him something I had been wanting to ask since the day I read his article on Learner's Collective. I wanted to know the actual thought behind starting that school.
If you haven't read about LC yet, you should. Here's the link: Starting a New School
He was ready to talk about anything, from taking in criticism and complaints from users to talking about future steps and plans for Frappe, to something completely different, like LC. I don't know if "grounded" is the perfect word for it. But literally anyone, from a newbie to owners, was able to have a chat with him.
I'm genuinely glad to have been part of this community, and I hope it only grows stronger from here. Already looking forward to Frappeverse 2027 in Bangalore.