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It looks like Dropbox started to incorporate all the planet's available valuable Python resources. How much time is left until this one shuts down?

http://blog.picloud.com/2013/11/17/picloud-has-joined-dropbox/

:)

We're actually kind of sorry to see these guys go, they were a great company to have in the Python space (though they did branch out to other languages, I think).

When we started PythonAnywhere they were right up there on the list of potential competitors, though as it turned out our early adopters steered us more in the direction of hosting and lightweight computation (ping an API periodically and do stuff with the results) rather than heavy-duty scientific computing.

The big problem with VC backing is that they really want $1bn exits. For them, Heroku's $200MM exit to Salesforce was almost a failure. I guess they couldn't see PiCloud going that way, so they chose not to invest again. Better to put the cash into a more likely-looking moonshot.

IMO this is a pity, because there are a bunch of smaller-than-$1bn but still solid companies that have limited investment options. The business-to-developer space is particularly prone to that kind of issue; it's less of a winner-takes-all market, so the big wins that VCs want are rarer than they are in other markets.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....Oh, this is so sad!! PiCloud is so cool!! I've run the client from my PA account before. That was some fun abstraction.