Comment on The tools that define us - Building a tool cultureComments−yawz12yDo you know any full-blown products that started as an internal tool?−Cherian12yhttp://phabricator.org/ - at Facebookhttp://www.google.com/analytics/ at Urchin−jowiar12yI think pretty much the entirety of AWS would qualify. - https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX−ajju12yI have heard from friends at Amazon that that is in large part an origin myth. This is hearsay, so take it fwiw.−mje__12yNope: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...−angersock12yIn 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.
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Do you know any full-blown products that started as an internal tool?
http://phabricator.org/ - at Facebook
http://www.google.com/analytics/ at Urchin
I think pretty much the entirety of AWS would qualify. - https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
I have heard from friends at Amazon that that is in large part an origin myth. This is hearsay, so take it fwiw.
Nope: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...
In 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.