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Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by sshine on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:03AM (#44221545)
This is paying users.

And what matters to me is: that it’s enough to keep going, securing the service, and that the number is steadily increasing.

Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by dymk on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:05AM (#44221554)
Will it ever be sustainable? It’s not enough that the number goes up, it has to go up fast enough to pay the cost of doing business.
Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by sshine on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:09AM (#44221578)
Yes, they were profitable before they reached 40k paying users. And as another commenter said: I don’t care how big they are, as long as they’re sustainable, they’re extremely useful to me.
Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by moralestapia on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:06AM (#44221561)
>that it’s enough to keep going

How do you know?

My napkin math says they're in red numbers, but let's see yours! :)

Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by sjs382 on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:11AM (#44221583)
Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by sshine on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:11AM (#44221586)
https://nicolaiarocci.com/kagi-is-profitable/

They reached profitability one year ago, two years into their existence. It’s a cool company.

Edit: Corrected from two years to one year

Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by moralestapia on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:17AM (#44221608)
Huh?

~Buddy, we are still in 2025 ...~ (removed, parent comment corrected)

If they were profitable then why did they raise money again?

>inb4, to expand their business

If that's the reason, where is this expansion? Their growth curve looks exactly the same since they started ...

IMO they invested a lot of money into their AI efforts, so maybe they raised for R&D?

I want them to do well, it's just that I thought they already had a much larger market share.

Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by sshine on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:31AM (#44221659)
> where is this expansion?

They hired a technical architect and an email engineer, so the biggest expansion is clearly into email hosting. But I imagine that AI R&D continues. I hope they consider more agentic extensions than search.

Re:Kagi Reaches 50k Users by UberFly on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:45AM (#44221705)
Lets see your napkin math.