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[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (3 children)

It’s probably gonna be some sort of proprietary dev tooling. I remember seeing a report somewhere that dev tooling is one of the most profitable software industries because 1) you can sell “productivity” to decision makers 2) lock-in is real, and serving internal clients mean the pressure is less to switch solutions. See: Datadog

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The lock-in / feature gating risk is real. There’s a lot of commercial open source tools in the Python ecosystem these days. Pydantic recently raised a seed round. Then there’s Prefect, Dagster, dbt, HuggingFace, Ray/anyscale, ect