Anvil.works Financials

Anvil Q&A
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On verge of starting a project with Anvil - Can we get some kind of update on the health of Anvil’s business? I see one question in the Q/A from 4+ years ago. All the tech media coverage seems to be old and introducing the concept of the service.

Thanks

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Hi @alan1,

The short answer is: We’re doing pretty well, thanks!

I’m not going to go into deep detail on our finances in a public forum, but here are a few public data points:

  • We’re entirely bootstrapped and profitable (i.e. our funding comes entirely from happy customers, not from VCs). This means we’re not the sort of company that will run out of money unless they raise their next round.

  • We’re shipping new features and functionality all the time: Within the last year alone, we have released a more powerful and completely rebuilt drag-and-drop designer, a social platform for hosting and sharing Python code, new ways of building reusable UI layouts and a whole bunch more quality-of-life improvements for people like you building their projects on Anvil. And we’ve got more features we’re excited to show everyone :slight_smile:

  • We’re continuing to expand our team: We have hired three new colleagues within the last month. (Look out for some new faces on the forum soon!)

  • If you’re building on Anvil you’re in good company: Publicly identified Anvil customers include household names such as HSBC, Deloitte, Vodafone and more, but there are even more that we don’t have permission to name in public.

In short, Anvil is in a good place. Build your project, and tell us all how it goes! :smiley:

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Meredydd and Owen,

I really appreciate the responses and love to hear Anvil stayed with the boot-strap approach and is profitable.

As I re-read my question, it sounds a little challenging - that wasn’t my intention.

I upgraded to the Hobby level last night - first planning to experiment with building a better demo and presentation UI around some risk calculations I work with and sell services around.

I’m starting with creating some simulated data and loading it to the internal database. I suspect that will be a great way to demo and later deliver real results. I’m really curious what the performance will be when I’m pulling a subset of data from an external database and running some calcs on demand in the platform.

I suspect I’ll be asking many more substantive questions before too long.

Thanks again,
Alan