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Funny to see PG listed as "Paul Graham, founder of Viaweb" and not "Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator" :-)

• amasad 8y ago
  Tongue-in-cheek :-P but I do think that Viaweb is relevant here: their original business model (it was called Webgen) was to let people host their sites with them. They were also the first to figure out "cloud" where they ran their customers generated code on their infrastructure. I believe after building Viaweb, PG had a similar idea of an IDE + language + infrastructure to allow people to build and ship applications from the browser.
  • emiliobumachar 8y ago
    So, they basically invented Software As A Service? Relevant indeed.
    • sirodoht 8y ago
      Here is a (recent) very interesting interview with PG, among others, talking about Viaweb. Bonus points: very funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WO5kJChg3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WO5kJChg3w
      • amasad 8y ago
        I believe the example he gave about "doing a naughty thing" was referencing our idea of terminal-apps-as-webpages: https://repl.it/jobs https://repl.it/jobs for an example