Re:Finger: The First Social Software (2019)
by hugs on Monday May 16, 2022 @08:46AM
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There is a semi-famous quote (maybe by pg?) that I can't find, but it's something like: "If you're looking for startup ideas, look at the list of built-in command line programs in Unix and figure out which ones you can turn into a web service."
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I remember this quote from somewhere too but can't find the source. Can anyone help?
Found some candidates, still not sure if they are the best sources.
> Every Unix Command Becomes a Startup
-- https://matt-rickard.com/every-unix-command-becomes-a-startu... [2022-04-09]
> Every Unix command eventually become an internet service. Grep->Google, rsync->Dropbox, man->stack overflow, cron->ifttt ... etc
-- https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/505118160811728896 [2014-08-28]
I almost want to say this wasn't so much a quote, but the summary of a pg essay. (At least it sounds like something he would say and write about.)
Re:Finger: The First Social Software (2019)
by demopathos on Monday May 16, 2022 @11:20AM
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That's good. There was a post on hacker news a week back or so that was essentially ifconfig as a webapl and I was thinking to myself, "what other command line tools can be webapls"