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When a company like this goes under where does all the code, configs, etc go? It'd be cool to see how they threw it all together.
by gravypod 7y ago
When a company like this goes under where does all the code, configs, etc go? It'd be cool to see how they threw it all together.
- dplgk 7y agoBased on how well it appeared to work they definitely "threw it all together".
- oplav 7y agoA MoviePass recruiter reached out to me a couple months ago. I regret not taking the interview just to see what it was like on the inside.
- ceejayoz 7y agoStripe has a product you could use for this sort of thing. https://stripe.com/issuing https://stripe.com/issuing
- bythe4mile 7y agoSo I am a bit confused as to how Stripe Issuing helps us figure out the underlying technologies that ties a company as OP above asked? Am I missing something?
- ceejayoz 7y agoWasn’t MoviePass largely a card you could only use at the theater you reserved a ticket at, to pay for that ticket?
- smitop 7y agoStripe Issuing lets you specify a webhook can approve/decline transactions [1], so you could use that to only approve transactions at a certain movie theater. [1] https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/authorizations https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/authorizations
- thepangolino 7y agoIt gets sold of course. Unfortunately you need to be involved in the right circles to have a shot at grabbing any of the IP. If you are lucky enough to be in those you could grab it for as low as USD 1000.
- gravypod 7y agoI wish I was in those circles. It would be really fun and informative to buy up a bunch of the carouses of dead startups and do a code/architecture review. What ideas did this team have that was interesting? What's confusing in the code base? Would I repeat any of these things in the future.
- tzs 7y agoSometimes the people who handle selling off the physical assets of a failed company don't do a good job of wiping computers. When the '80s Unix workstation company Callan Data Systems went out of business, my developer workstation was auctioned off with a full copy of AT&T Unix source code on it. I wonder if people are more careful about this nowadays? I suppose even if they are sloppy, a modern workstation probably has an encrypted filesystem so the buyer is probably not going to get anything off it.