Shopify paid out $561m to app developers in 2022
Shopify's latest investor overview "Leading the future of commerce" just dropped, and features some eyewateringly good numbers for their developer ecosystem.
GitHub Copilot generates up to 46% of all code (but you're not out of a job)
In a blog post announcing GitHub Copilot for Business, some pretty incredible stats were sprinkled around. 46% of all code created using GitHub Copilot is accepted by developers across all programming languages. That's up from 27% in June of last year.
An Embarrassing Oversight Helped Create Facebook's $167billion Mobile Advertising Business
Half-way through 2012, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that Facebook was doing a MySpace. In other words, Facebook was on a fast path to slow, painful decline.
On True App Marketplaces, Nobody Knows You're A Dog
In July 1993 cartoonist Peter Steiner sat at his desk, trying to think of a clever caption for one of many cartoons he created for the New Yorker.
Lessons in Platform Strategy from Atlassian’s 2019 Investor Session
One of the best ways to get a closer look “under the hood” of public companies is to check out their Investor Day presentations.
People, Platforms, and PWAs: Three Forces Driving the Future of Micro-entrepreneurship
The technology industry’s buzzword du jour is “platform.” Conceptually, the idea of a “platform” is not new, but technology companies’ desire to become platform companies, and the number of new companies claiming their status as a “platform” has accelerated dramatically over the last few years.
Why the Gig Economy’s Minimum Wage Debate Matters to Platform Companies
Fast Company recently reported that contractors at multiple delivery platforms have partnered with labor advocacy group Working Washington to demand a $15/hour minimum wage across the entire gig economy.
Your API Is Not A Feature
Early stage SaaS companies survive and thrive by creating new customer value as fast as they can. Ignore feature requests from your early adopters at your peril. They churn, you fail.
Browsers, Not Apps, Are Still The Future Of Mobile
Are native apps dead yet? Are browsers and the web still the future of mobile? What is a browser, anyway?
Consumer Messengers Are The Future Of Business Messaging
In early 2018 the city of San Jose — deep in California’s Santa Clara Valley — hosted two events a week apart that together signalled the most significant shift in a behaviour for over a decade.
Platform Partnerships That Get Measured, Get Managed
The list of ‘product’ companies that have committed to become ‘platform’ companies is short. The list of ‘product’ companies that have successfully become ‘platform’ companies is even shorter.
A Platform Isn’t A Platform Without An “Idea Network”
Hand axes were made to a pretty unvarying design for over a million years — 30,000 generations — whilst computer mice were invented less than a century ago and already have evolved to the point of being obsolete.