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looked at your product, it appears to be quite literally octave in the cloud. Serious question, How can this scale to tens of thousands of users simultaneously
by apalmer 14y ago
looked at your product, it appears to be quite literally octave in the cloud.
Serious question, How can this scale to tens of thousands of users simultaneously using it? It is entirely possible that this is no where near as performance intensive as I am assuming it to be.
Second question, Whats to stop a competitor from doing the same thing your doing at half the price? It seems like it would be relatively trivial for another company to take input matlab programs from a browser, shell out to octave, and then return the results via the http response, and make it look pretty on the client. There may be a whole lot more going on, but from the outside looking in it appears like there is no moat, any technically decent company could enter this niche and do the same exact thing your doing with minimal effort.
Those two questions you have to answer i think rather than whether or not this is a 'solution' or a 'something'
- shubb 14y agoThe product right now looks pretty crude, but it also looks like a very early stage prototype. If they had say 5 good engineers on this for a year, I suspect it would look very much more compelling. To do that, you need funding, hence the ycombinator interview.