I am wondering what is the greatest product-based company in terms of revenue and impact that had no more than one programmer. To be strict about the definition I am looking for a company that generated cash (not raised it) while still having a relatively small programming team.
Top of my head plentyoffish and minecraft are the two main ones that probably everyone heard of? If you relax the condition of 1 programmer a bit then whatsapp is certainly up there.
Also if you consider btc a product (although I am not a fan of crypto) and don't believe the theories about satoshi being a group, then btc is definitely up there. In fact this one needed almost less than one programmer since you had to do very little 'maintenance' after the codebase stabilised.
Top of my head plentyoffish and minecraft are the two main ones that probably everyone heard of? If you relax the condition of 1 programmer a bit then whatsapp is certainly up there.
Also if you consider btc a product (although I am not a fan of crypto) and don't believe the theories about satoshi being a group, then btc is definitely up there. In fact this one needed almost less than one programmer since you had to do very little 'maintenance' after the codebase stabilised.