[schnevets]

Love it. Tech has been so obsessed with "the next Facebook" for the last 15 years that there have been thousands of useful concepts lying on the table. While everyone jumped from mobile to wearables to AR to machine intelligence, there are billion-dollar companies that amount to little more than a CRUD framework, a few innovations, and intelligent marketing/strategy/advisory.

It gives me hope for the future - if we can get more people from various walks of life to learn how to code and appreciate technology, there is so much more we can do. Of course, that "if" has always been a huge challenge.

[zyang]

Ironically Facebook uses PHP, which definitely falls into the "withered" tech category.

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

Wouldn't facebook fall under this category? It was originally just the universities head shots and a login.

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

Got some examples?

[hirako2000]

I can think of SalesForce, asana and others in the glorified crud category. Slack and similar chatting apps are just IRC for then common user, yet it worked seeing their valuations.

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

My experience with SalesForce is that it is way more complicated than a simple CRUD app.

[gkolli]

serviceNow and workday are two ‘unsexy’ companies that are huge.