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Love it. Tech has been so obsessed with "the next Facebook" for the last 15 years that there have been thousands of useful concepts lying on the table. While ev
by schnevets 7y ago
Love it. Tech has been so obsessed with "the next Facebook" for the last 15 years that there have been thousands of useful concepts lying on the table. While everyone jumped from mobile to wearables to AR to machine intelligence, there are billion-dollar companies that amount to little more than a CRUD framework, a few innovations, and intelligent marketing/strategy/advisory.
It gives me hope for the future - if we can get more people from various walks of life to learn how to code and appreciate technology, there is so much more we can do. Of course, that "if" has always been a huge challenge.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 7y agoGot some examples?
- hirako2000 7y agoI can think of SalesForce, asana and others in the glorified crud category. Slack and similar chatting apps are just IRC for then common user, yet it worked seeing their valuations.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 7y agoMy experience with SalesForce is that it is way more complicated than a simple CRUD app.
- gkolli 7y agoserviceNow and workday are two ‘unsexy’ companies that are huge.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 7y agoWouldn't facebook fall under this category? It was originally just the universities head shots and a login.
- zyang 7y agoIronically Facebook uses PHP, which definitely falls into the "withered" tech category.