Rails comes to mind. Basecamp wasn’t in the business of creating web frameworks, but they saw value in open sourcing their in-house solution.
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Glitch?
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Slack pivoted from Glitch ... Fog Creek bought the Glitch domain name from Slack... it's like cascading pivots
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2023; Slack is happy to announce they are now Fog Creek.
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And release a browser based multi-player game... cyclical pivot ftw
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It’s like a do-si-do in square dancing.
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Now to get
@stewart to build it on Glitch
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I don't know that Amazon fully pivoted, but AWS is certainly a by-product that ended up eclipsing the main product.
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Flickr and Slack
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Unity was supposed to be the engine for a game that never saw the light of day.
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Yammer spawned from Geni. Unsplash, Memberful.
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Slack?
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The founders of Shopify originally just wanted to sell their snowboards online, but didn't like the existing options.
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Mongo. IIRC it was developed as an internal database for a different product 10gen had in mind Segment's "analytics splitter" was ~100 lines of JS, what they ended up building their business around
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Pivotal Tracker
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Docker and Twitter
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Amazon and AWS being some in house hosting thing
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Memberful I believe
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Um, Twitter?
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