Zillabyte
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Zillabyte was a cloud-based platform for data analysis aimed at letting developers focus on their models instead of infrastructure. The service set up and maintained the compute infrastructure needed to analyze data, worked with both open and private datasets, and shipped packaged algorithms for tasks such as geocoding and fraud analysis. The company was a Y Combinator alum and won Launch Festival 2013.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Relaunch and recognition
Zillabyte relaunched as a cloud platform for data analysis, positioning itself as a turnkey alternative to emerging products from Google and Amazon; it was a Y Combinator alum and won the Launch Festival 2013 competition.
- Ceased operations
The company's public package releases stopped in early 2015, and it ceased operations during 2015, after which the platform was shut down.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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