Shifting into Startup

Grapycal was an open source project. I started it for myself’s need to explore the realm of math and AI. I wanted it to be recognized by the community and grow with the power of the community. I hoped it to be the default when people pick a tool for programming. It had a mission, to be general, to help the whole humanity to connect with machines.

But now, we’re turning Grapycal into a startup, hoping to push the project onto another rail which would make it go faster. It brings excitment and the feel of novelty, but it also brings me a significant amount of works that I’m not mentally used to, or sometimes, I repel.

For the business models, I’m force to temporarily redefine Grapycal’s value into some narrow and somehow awkward topics, like, training LLMs. Yeah, they’re useful, but not interesting at all.

On the highway towards Human-Level AI, Large Language Model is an off-ramp. - Yann LeCun

Also, I’m forced to bullshit. If you know you know, It really hurts when you try to talk about what you love with a statement that is even slightly inconsistent with your real thoughts. Maybe I’ll finally get used to it, but that maybe means I’ll become a business person selling Grapycal instead of an artist that created Grapycal. The latter role is clearly more meaningful to be.

When these personal mental uncomfortableness end, is when we finally grow the project into a stable and comfortable enough state, that allows us to develop the project in the direction aligned with our hearts.