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The market was considerably too small and it would mean building to much towards the past. The thesis of "millions of new developers are coming online over t

by neom 6y ago

The market was considerably too small and it would mean building to much towards the past. The thesis of "millions of *new* developers are coming online over the next 20 years" was the main north star.

tyingq 6y ago
It is small compared to cloud, but it's a ~$22 billion / year market. Compare to IaaS at ~$50b. So it's not tiny, but it is highly fragmented. And I think the solution could be layered on top of what they already have. Cpanel is just a bunch of buttons, icons, and little apps to create web server instances and tie them to domains, database instances, backups, web file management, manage DNS records, and so on. Basically just a consistent web app to put on top of their "droplet" ecosystem. Much of it already exists, so a fair amount of the effort would just be marketing it.
- neom 6y ago
  We were too busy building in the wake of AWS. Looking forward and building into the paradigm shift was the strategy (and it seemed to work!). :)
  - tyingq 6y ago
    Makes sense, though paradoxically, that market is growing by around 10% per year.