How does the software you build make the world a better place?

I work on a web app that let people file their CA taxes for free. it only has 200K users per year. but hey that is a couple millions intuit doesn't get.

We're a tiny one-stop boutique specialized in machine learning. Our clients are exclusively large organizations because only they can afford our services.

Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations.

I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it.

There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles.

It makes money for me and I can do what I want with that.

It makes learning vim fun[0] and it gives an open-source creator $250/mo[1]. Also it helps me out by giving me extra income that has helped pay down debt.

[0] https://www.vim.so

[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/#gold-sponsors

People can retire, go to college, or invest for some other goal. The company is involved in community service and charity to a degree.

My contribution is indirect since I don't work on the investment systems themselves.

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In Kinobi.asia, We create a service where users can create their own CVs. We handle the formatting, so that you can focus on your content. Our vision is to empower the individuals in SEA region to land into jobs of their dream.

While the service is referral code protected, do chat me up if you love to check it out and use it!

People are entertained a little more and I'm not spending programmer hours on something like a robocall.

People are delighted by the more accurate ads!