Simons: Games and IDEs Are Ultimate Stress Tests for Platform Bugs
Eric Simons · 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo) · Dec 2, 2024 · at 23:16
Eric Simons, CEO of StackBlitz (creator of Bolt.new), explains how building development environments in the browser stresses browser infrastructure.
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“The second one are IDEs, because you're talking about actually the virtualizing the actual runtime environment you are in to actually build apps on top of it, which requires sophisticated capabilities, a lot, you know, access to, you know, a good amount of compute power, right? To effectively, you know, building app in app sort of thing. So those are the stress tests. So if your platform is missing stuff, those are the things where you find out. Those are the people building games and IDEs. They're the ones filing bugs on operating system level stuff. And for us, browser level stuff.”
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