Building an Open-Source NLP Tool - Johannes Hötter

We talked about:

• Johannes’s background
• Johannes’s Open Source Spotlight demos – Refinery and Bricks
• The difficulties of working with natural language processing (NLP)
• Incorporating ChatGPT into a process as a heuristic
• What is Bricks?
• The process of starting a startup – Kern
• Making the decision to go with open source
• Pros and cons of launching as open source
• Kern’s business model
• Working with enterprises
• Johannes as a salesperson
• The team at Kern
• Johannes’s role at Kern
• How Johannes and Henrik separate responsibilities at Kern
• Working with very niche use cases
• The short story of how Kern got its funding
• Johannes’s resource recommendation

Links:

• Refinery's GitHub repo: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/refinery
• Bricks' Github repo: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/bricks
• Bricks Open Source Spotlight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rXzoLQy2U
• Refinery Open Source Spotlight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMhN2f7YDg
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/qf4rGCEphW
• Ker's Website: https://www.kern.ai

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