Comment by chadash

The accompanying blog post says "The one thing you couldn't see was how well Ente is doing as a business. Now you can."

To the parent commenter's point, we don't have enough information to know if that's true.

EDIT: the founder is on this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933905) providing more info and explains that adding expenses on would be too burdensome.