Trigger
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Trigger (later known as Trigger.io) was a cross-platform mobile development platform founded by Amir Nathoo. It began as the web bookmarking tool WebMynd and pivoted to 'Forge', a framework letting web developers write an app once in HTML5, CSS or JavaScript and ship it to Android, iOS and desktop browsers, with a JavaScript API for native features like camera and notifications. A Y Combinator company with teams in San Francisco and London, it monetized on a freemium model and counted hundreds of developers as paying customers.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Pivot
WebMynd pivots to become Trigger, the cross-platform mobile framework 'Forge' for web developers.
- Funding
Trigger announces $1 million in funding from SV Angel, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, 500 Startups and others.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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