We tried to do this back in 2016 with BrightWork. We got a lot of traction, but it came on the heels of Parse being shutdown by Facebook after acquiring them for a ton of money.
The lesson I learned from that experience is that there is still a tremendous amount of distrust in platforms that make it easy to stand up something quickly. Even prototyping.
Even if you make it easy for users to export their code from your platform you will still run into scalability questions (i.e. what happens if someone builds the next Flappy Bird on your platform?).
All that aside, this is great! Congrats on launching Caffeine. :)
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We tried to do this back in 2016 with BrightWork. We got a lot of traction, but it came on the heels of Parse being shutdown by Facebook after acquiring them for a ton of money.
The lesson I learned from that experience is that there is still a tremendous amount of distrust in platforms that make it easy to stand up something quickly. Even prototyping.
Even if you make it easy for users to export their code from your platform you will still run into scalability questions (i.e. what happens if someone builds the next Flappy Bird on your platform?).
All that aside, this is great! Congrats on launching Caffeine. :)