StackMachine
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
StackMachine was a San Francisco developer-tools company founded in May 2013 by Kyle Gray and Brandon Liu. It offered 'instant sandboxed server environments', enabling a full-stack understanding of an organization's codebases and developer environments. The two-person team went through Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch. Gray later created sqlc, the popular command-line tool that generates source code from SQL; Liu went on to work on Protomaps. Y Combinator lists the company as Inactive.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
StackMachine was founded in San Francisco in May 2013 by Kyle Gray and Brandon Liu, entering Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch with its instant sandboxed server environments product.
- Company inactive
StackMachine is listed as Inactive; the founders moved on to other projects (sqlc, Protomaps).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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