Comment on Dev Tools Honeytrap: Why We Can't Stop Building Tools Nobody BuysparentComments−SkyPuncher1yYea, I don't buy that line at all.AWS is "just dev tools" and it's one of the most profitable businesses in the world.−wavemode1yAWS most certainly is not just dev tools. AWS is a physical product (servers, drives, cables, networks, switches, cooling, monitoring, redundancy, security...) that you merely interact with remotely. You can't recreate AWS just by writing code.−8f2ab37a-ed6c1yExactly. Devtools has had a rather generous number of unicorns in the last 15 years as a tech category. There are many others that can't say the same.https://www.failory.com/startups/developer-tools-unicorns (unrelated, but thatgamecompany as dev tools? that's a first)−booi1yI would categorize that as infrastructure, not a dev tool. Terraform and terraform cloud on the other hand…
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Yea, I don't buy that line at all.
AWS is "just dev tools" and it's one of the most profitable businesses in the world.
AWS most certainly is not just dev tools. AWS is a physical product (servers, drives, cables, networks, switches, cooling, monitoring, redundancy, security...) that you merely interact with remotely. You can't recreate AWS just by writing code.
Exactly. Devtools has had a rather generous number of unicorns in the last 15 years as a tech category. There are many others that can't say the same.
https://www.failory.com/startups/developer-tools-unicorns (unrelated, but thatgamecompany as dev tools? that's a first)
I would categorize that as infrastructure, not a dev tool. Terraform and terraform cloud on the other hand…