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I used Cloud9 for about nine months before Amazon acquired the company. I loved it-- I loved having separate environments per-project. I enjoyed the collaborative features as well (send a link to look at code or preview something, etc). I see a lot of potential with them and I would love for them to be more mainstream. After Amazon acquired the company I cancelled my subscription (I was paying annually.. I think it w…
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I assume this is VC funded? Seems crazy to me that a shopping cart product is building tools like this.
We generally try to do things that give a return on investment and don't burn money for no reason. This one most certainly had the ROI. It took 4-ish people to build it in under a year and it removed significant pain and increased developer velocity for hundreds of other developers. Many of whom are working on things that allowed us to be profitable at our IPO. We're not just a shopping cart product. I thought the sa…
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We generally try to do things that give a return on investment and don't burn money for no reason. This one most certainly had the ROI. It took 4-ish people to build it in under a year and it removed significant pain and increased developer velocity for hundreds of other developers. Many of whom are working on things that allowed us to be profitable at our IPO. We're not just a shopping cart product. I thought the sa…
4 developer years? You paid a million dollars for this tool?
Now run that same estimate assuming we saved 600 engineers only 1 hour per week (a very conservative number by our research and feedback). $120/hr * 1 hour saved per week * 4 weeks * 600 engineers. We paid it back in less than four months, conservatively.
I used Cloud9 for about nine months before Amazon acquired the company. I loved it-- I loved having separate environments per-project. I enjoyed the collaborative features as well (send a link to look at code or preview something, etc). I see a lot of potential with them and I would love for them to be more mainstream. After Amazon acquired the company I cancelled my subscription (I was paying annually.. I think it w…
What didn't you like about any of the other companies?
We're not, and I'm very glad for it. I am the opposite of excited about the idea of CDEs.
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4 developer years? You paid a million dollars for this tool?
Sounds roughly right. Though not all of us were full time on it at all times. We also paid that just once about two years ago. It has been part time feature and maintenance work since then. Now run that same estimate assuming we saved 600 engineers only 1 hour per week (a very conservative number by our research and feedback). $120/hr * 1 hour saved per week * 4 weeks * 600 engineers. We paid it back in less than fou…