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Thanks for your hard work. Really top quality software. I hope and wish they are making enough money to keep working on it.

• syllogism 7y ago
  Definitely a fair concern, and thanks for the kind words :). We haven't had to fund-raise, so our company performance has actually been a bit under-the-radar. But I can assure you everything's been going well, and most people would be surprised at the numbers. We've been profitable since day one, but this year we've been making enough to hire three more full-time developers: https://explosion.ai/about https://explosion.ai/about . Our revenue all comes from our annotation tool Prodigy: https://prodi.gy https://prodi.gy . Prodigy's very popular, we have a few thousand users in total. There aren't many alternative tools that are scriptable like Prodigy is, and annotation is something that has to be done on almost every project. Even if you don't need to annotate training data (e.g. if you're training on click data or something), you'll usually want to do small annotation tasks to do error analysis and understand your performance.