Congrats on the launch... You're in a crowded space. What differentiates Midship? What are you doing that's novel?
Cofounder here.
Great Q - there is definitely a lot of competition in dev tool offerings but less so in end to end experiences for non technical users.
Some of the things we offer above and beyond dev tools: 1. Schema building to define “what data to extract” 2. A hosted web app to review, audit and export extracted data 3. Integrations into downstream applications like spreadsheets
Outside of those user facing pieces, the biggest engineering effort for us has been in dealing with very complex inputs, like 100+ page PDFs. Just dumping into ChatGPT and asking nicely for the structured data falls over in both obvious (# input/output tokens exceeded) and subtle ways (e.g. missing a row in the middle of the extraction).