Comment by Maro
2 days ago
> the most popular UI system (especially for AI models)
Like others earlier in the thread I'm symphatetic to this company/project, but your code/project being referenced often in AI output in itself doesn't imply that the thing needs to be a business.
bash, curl, awk, Python code with numpy imports, C++, all sorts of code is constantly being generated by AI, doesn't mean curl or numpy should be its own company, or that the AI Labs need to fund them.
As other fave written, making $1M+ already feels like a lot, maybe this shouldn't be a company, just 1-2 people who have a great time supporting this thing. I wonder if curl or awk have that kind of funding even..
> doesn't mean curl or numpy should be its own company, or that the AI Labs need to fund them.
you'd be surprised
https://numpy.org/about/#sponsors https://curl.se/sponsors.html
Great point, thanks for making it. Following onward, NumPy has a non-profit called Numfocus who is behind it:
https://numfocus.org/
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/454...
Apparently they have an annual budget of ~$10M. From the contributors, it's easy to recognize the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (so Meta), Google, MSFT. This is great.
Having said that, I'd still say that $1-2M for a CSS library seems more than enough. Not everything needs to be "scaled"..
When very important tooling does not have very impressive funding, you get the xkcd 2347 situation very quickly.
Not very important. Just sugar for webdevs.
Change the pricing model and you'll better off
That’s the All Modern Digital Infrastructure relying on a dependency a Nebraskan has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003 one: https://xkcd.com/2347/