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There's probably a use case / audience for this, but it's a child's toy compared to stuff like ArcGIS. This is not taking on ESRI at all.

$20m is also not that much, mapbox raised 10x that amount and still struggles to find customers.



I'd imagine the audiences are quite different in their needs. We focus on the real estate of data centers and I think see multiple angles.

We have sales people and analysts that just need to make a basic map, call out some data points, and make it look good. Feels like Felt is a great tool for that.

We have larger needs where we need to do more complex analysis and visualize the relationships of larger data sets geographically - that's what we're looking to ArcGIS for.

It's been a bit of a search to find an affordable tool for the first use case and am glad to see someone in the space doing it.


I think that's spot on.

Curious, is there anything else about your needs pushing you towards ArcGIS rather than, say, QGIS?


Could it be a case of not taking on ESRI at the high end, but instead going for the low end that likely has a lot more potential customers?




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