[e1g]

If you're looking for evidence in the public repo, consider what's not in there: one co-founder is missing, and so are the commits from the other author/co-founder for over a year. Not the signals you want in a dev-tooling project.

[ricardobeat]

I found it interesting that a good chunk of outside contributions[1] happened before funding, and have almost completely stopped.

[1] https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors

[pohl]

Or you could look to see if new work is being released. Most recent one was just 17 days ago.

https://twitter.com/rometools/status/1567169157891776514

[lazlo_kovacs]

Except how many users do they have? If I were a VC fund looking to give them another round, I’d want to know their metrics, whether that’s users, downloads, or revenue. Judging by their blog, it’s been a year since they raised the money. Have they produced anything other than a bunch of code? Because code isn’t worth much without users.