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I built CrowdFlower, sold it, and then spent two years doing ML research. The tooling was so bad I kept building internal tools just to get work done. That became Weights & Biases.
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The best developer tools spread the same way — one engineer adds it to a project on a Friday afternoon, the team sees value on Monday morning, and the company is on a paid plan by the end of the quarter.
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We realized blockchain development felt like building websites in 1995 — unreliable nodes, missing data, no debugging tools. So we built what AWS built for the internet: infrastructure developers can actually trust.