Sharp 4 was built and is maintained by Code16, a french web agency located in Strasbourg. More precisely, inside Code16, Philippe Lonchampt and Antoine Guingand worked hard on this.
Sharp 4 is named after... Sharp 3, which was a far less ambitious and more personal project, which itself evolved in 3 major versions since 2014. Sharp 3 is still used in many of our client projects, handling for instance the content, the ticketing configuration and orders and some resource data for a french music festival, or all this plus e-commerce logic and data for a large stores chain.
The Sharp name itself is a reference to Quincy Sharp, which is the director of the Arkham Asylum in some Batman universe, just because Code16 is part of a group of talented people named Gotham in honour of our building.
Sharp 4 is and will stay open source. It's a Laravel project built with Vue.js on the frontend, and the following open source projects: