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Johannes Hötter for Kern AI

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We're open-source! The data-centric sibling of VS Code

Hello, open-source world!

We have been working tirelessly towards this day for a long time. Finally, we can say that Kern refinery goes open-source, and we celebrate this with our version 1.0!

There are three main reasons why we decided to do that step:

Community
We strive to create a community of like-minded devs who want to participate in the movement toward data-centric AI.

Innovation
We want to drive innovation through collaboration. Open-source software provides a faster response time to current market needs.

Transparency
It is important to us that the access and individualization of our software are possible for all of our users.

So as of today, you can pip install kern-refinery on your machines to download and run our application.

pip install kern-refinery

Now that we've finished our open-source go-live, we are looking forward to working towards those three goals every day.

Our work towards the release was mainly put into - again - three areas:

New UI and improved UX
You might have noticed that our app has a new look. We did several user tests, rebranded our app, and went for the following look:

refinery UI

Also, we integrated some features that make it easier to play around with the data from a programmatic point of view, such as the record IDE:

Record IDE

You can check out those things in our guide.

What do you think of the new UI look? Let us know, we're excited about your feedback!

Extended documentation and use cases
We've put extra effort into everything related to your first impression and first successes of using Kern refinery. And what's super important for that is documentation and use cases. You can now not only find more insights in this very documentation but can also find hands-on examples on YouTube, on our GitHub, and on our community spaces (discussion forum and Discord).

Architectural changes
Lastly, with an open-source release, we wanted to improve our architectural design. We've spent lots of effort on refactoring services and making sure that we can quickly iterate on your product feedback and ideas. In total, we've spent now more than 18 months on this very application, from initial design to the first MVP and now version 1.0 - but of course, we are still only getting started to build the data-centric development environment specifically designed to help data scientists in building great AI models. Help us, and we'll make sure to continue building something people love!

refinery architecture

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Mazi Chukwudi

Brilliant, I look forward to contributing

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Johannes Hötter

Cool!!

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Bela Wiertz

Amazing product. A lot more to come...

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Chris Greening

Congratulations - a fantastic milestone!

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Johannes Hötter

Thanks Chris!! Means the world to me :)

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Yuwang Cai

🎉🎉🎉

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Andrew Baisden

What a cool product going to check it out.

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Johannes Hötter

Thanks Andrew! :)
If you like it, please join our Discord channel: discord.com/invite/qf4rGCEphW

Would be so cool to build a community around data-centric tasks. We're at the very beginning of building something similar to VS Code for AI, and without a community we can't get there.

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Ayan Acharya

Is it dedicated for AI or can be used for system design?

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Johannes Hötter

It's designed 100% for AI. However, we had some users e.g. using it for quality control of master data in ERP systems, which we never thought of. So, I only recommend it for AI, but you might get creative and find new use cases :) If so, please share :)

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Bhaumic

🎉🎉🎉

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Okanu Gracious

Big W

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Johannes Hötter

Thanks Okanu, means the world! :) As mentioned with Andrew (and everyone who is interested), feel free to join our Discord. Would love to have people there interested in discussing what a data-centric sibling of VS Code needs, so we can build something YOU like!

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MariaZentsova

Looks really nice, look forward to using it for my next project!

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Johannes Hötter

Thanks Maria! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate reaching out to us on Discord. We're more than happy to help :)