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Do you know any full-blown products that started as an internal tool?
by yawz 13y ago
Do you know any full-blown products that started as an internal tool?
- Cherian 13y agohttp://phabricator.org/ http://phabricator.org/ - at Facebook http://www.google.com/analytics/ http://www.google.com/analytics/ at Urchin
- jowiar 13y agoI think pretty much the entirety of AWS would qualify. - https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
- ajju 13y agoI have heard from friends at Amazon that that is in large part an origin myth. This is hearsay, so take it fwiw.
- mje__ 13y agoNope: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-cloud-computing-business?share=1 http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...
- angersock 13y agoIn gaming: all of the idTech engines, the Unreal engine, and so forth. Unix was an internal tool at Bell Labs, as was C. Rails was pretty much just a framework over at 37signals before it spread. ~ This happens a lot in software.