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Open Source Startup Podcast

E104: The Future Is Browser-Based with Drifting in Space

Sep 11, 2023
Paul Butler, Founder of Drifting in Space, discusses browser-based tech, industrial company adoption, components of Drifting in Space platform, building applications on Plane, benefits/challenges of browser-based apps, marketing challenges, balancing product building and user feedback, and the future of browser-based apps.
30:20

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Quick takeaways

  • Drifting in Space focuses on building browser-based applications infrastructure and tooling to bridge the gap between browser technology and the types of applications they want to build.
  • As browser-based computation becomes more capable, industries like industrial software are seeking browser-based alternatives to costly workstations.

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The idea behind Drifting in Space

Paul, the co-founder of Drifting in Space, explains that the idea for the company came from his previous experience in finance, where he realized the need for browser-based tools to analyze large data sets interactively. However, existing browser infrastructure was lacking, as sending all data to the browser had limitations and server infrastructure was optimized for high throughput, low compute workloads. Seeing this trend in other industries as well, Paul was inspired to build browser-based applications infrastructure and tooling to bridge the gap between browser technology and the types of applications he wanted to build.

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