Comment by danielhanchen
5 days ago
Hey! Our primary objective for now is to provide the open source community with cool and useful tooling - we found closed source to be much more popular because of better tooling!
We have much much in the pipeline!!
Thanks! How do you earn or keep yourself afloat? I really like what you guys are doing. And similar orgs. I am personally doing the same, full-time. But I am worried when I will run out of personal savings.
I've been wondering this since they started it, mostly as a concern they stay afloat. Since Daniel does the work of ten, it seems like their value:cost ratio is world-class at the very least.
With the studio release, it seems to like they could be on the path to just bootstrapping a unicorn or a 10x corn or whatever that's called, which is super interesting. Anyway, his refusal to go into details reassures me, sounds like things are fine, and they're shipping. Vai com dios
Daniel is a very impressive guy. Well within the realm of “fund the people not the idea” that YC seems to do. Got a few bucks from them and probably earning from collaborations etc. Odds of them not figuring out a business model seem slim.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/unsloth-ai
From comments elsewhere in this thread, it sounds like Unsloth could also be getting some decent consulting revenue from larger companies.
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Investments are not income
You didn't answer the parent question.
They don't owe anyone an answer.
But if they want to attract users, like they seem to do, then answering would go long way.
that doesnt sound reassuring?