<story><title>Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/cloudflare-launches-cloudflare-apps-platform-and-100m-fund-from-investors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zackbloom</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a lead engineer on the Cloudflare Apps team and I&amp;#x27;d love to answer any questions. Cloudflare has been working on building apps into our platform for over six years, and I&amp;#x27;ve personally been working on this codebase for over three (1200 days exactly today in fact).&lt;p&gt;The initial goal of Apps is to make it possible for everyone to use all the tools technical people find and use on Github and npm everyday. Our long term goal is to make it possible for developers to make a living building tools which make the web better. As an engineer myself, the moment I will personally enjoy the most is when a developer makes $1MM on the store meaning it has truly changed their lives. That will be when this experiment is proven a success and we can&amp;#x27;t wait!&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I found a visualization that Teffen Ellis on our team made of every commit throughout the history of the project: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;drive.google.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;0B6EsMIhQjoQYT2pmS05hU1RuUTQ&amp;#x2F;view&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;drive.google.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;d&amp;#x2F;0B6EsMIhQjoQYT2pmS05hU1RuUTQ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/cloudflare-launches-cloudflare-apps-platform-and-100m-fund-from-investors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kentt</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be very wary about investing my time and resources on a platform with such a corrupt CEO.  Just a few months ago he was blatantly lying* about the massive security issues they were having.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13721644&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=13721644&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>