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I am Kyle Shank. You can email at my first name dot last name at gmail dot com.

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Mythical Man

June 18
Remember the open source project I was talking about a post ago?  It was RadRails and when we left it had over 150,000 active users.  It was a nerd developer IDE we created as a counter argument to the web developer products we were building at IBM (long story).  Anyway, we handed it over to Apatana (a VC backed open source company, figure that one out) for free (which I now regret) in March 2007.  We just gave a valuable asset away, just like that, because I thought it would be better for the end users.  We needed to focus on graduating and starting our new company.  The product needed to maintain its momentum. They have pimped out the brand even further though by writing a book on it.  Wow. We put so much work into that product.  I’m happy the name “RadRails” stuck like superglue but kind of disappointed in how things have shaken out since.

Remember the open source project I was talking about a post ago?  It was RadRails and when we left it had over 150,000 active users.  It was a nerd developer IDE we created as a counter argument to the web developer products we were building at IBM (long story).  Anyway, we handed it over to Apatana (a VC backed open source company, figure that one out) for free (which I now regret) in March 2007.  We just gave a valuable asset away, just like that, because I thought it would be better for the end users.  We needed to focus on graduating and starting our new company.  The product needed to maintain its momentum.

They have pimped out the brand even further though by writing a book on it.  Wow.

We put so much work into that product.  I’m happy the name “RadRails” stuck like superglue but kind of disappointed in how things have shaken out since.