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In the late 80s, a friend turned his comsci class project into a product. The company was making about $25m. It died due to a patent dispute. He later started
by swframe2 4mo ago
In the late 80s, a friend turned his comsci class project into a product.
The company was making about $25m. It died due to a patent dispute.
He later started a dot com that is still very successful.
- theflyingelvis 4mo agoWhat was the product?
- faangguyindia 4mo agoviaweb, adobe, microstrategy
- swframe2 4mo agoI can't find any references to the company online anymore. The product was a c++ interpreter (created from the founder's compiler class project) and IDE. This was before java/python/javascript/etc. The interpreter would catch errors and you could mix interpreted code and binary code. Pure software displaced it.
- theflyingelvis 4mo agoVery cool. Thank you
- Cthulhu_ 4mo agoReminds me of the guy (Mitch Altman) that invented the tv-b-gone, a universal remote that turns every TV off. He made a small fortune off of that and now goes around teaching people IoT and the like. I'm sure he's on here, if so, hello and thank you for the neat synthesizer board project o/
- Hnrobert42 4mo agoI have one. It's fantastic. Although, I don't see as many televisions in public spaces anymore. Maybe because now it's smartphones that anesthetize the masses.
- NetMageSCW 4mo agoYou are not going to enough sports bars.