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A lot of good and interesting things started out as toys

We should build more toys

I don't think there are a lot in the SAAS world. Usually when something quirky and new launches, readers on this website can discern something about useful intent.

Arguably Github, Slack, Twitch, TikTok were basically toys at launch with a lot of people questioning possible market fit.

But there is a difference between those products - and for example - everything that came out of the crypto blockchain scene. This new product by Cloudflare feels more in the latter camp than the former.

Slack, of course, came out of a video game company pivot. Dropbox is famous here because of that one take. The need to allow very intelligent people to be whimsical is maybe best captured by Richard Feynman spinning dinner plates at the cafeteria, which would later lead him to a Nobel Prize for it.

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