Cloudstitch
A web development platform that uses your office suite as the back-end.
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Founded in 2014 by Ted Benson and Jake Lau, Cloudstitch emerged from doctoral research conducted at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Benson, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and a background that includes roles at Google and Amazon, conceptualized the platform as a way to simplify web development. The company was a participant in the Y Combinator Summer 2015 batch and secured seed funding to advance its platform.
Cloudstitch offered a web developer platform designed to connect web and mobile applications to ordinary spreadsheets, such as those from Google and Microsoft Office. The core of its service was a bi-directional data flow: updates within a spreadsheet would automatically reflect on the connected website or app, and user interactions with the application would, in turn, update the spreadsheet. This model positioned the platform as an alternative to traditional custom databases and the associated backend infrastructure, targeting developers seeking to create data-driven websites with simplified management. The service was utilized by thousands of developers for production websites and applications.
The business operated in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), CloudTech, and developer tools markets. In 2017, Cloudstitch was acquired by Instabase, a data processing startup. Following the acquisition, the Cloudstitch team joined Instabase to contribute to the development of their platform, with co-founder Ted Benson taking on a leadership role in machine intelligence. While existing Cloudstitch projects remained accessible, the company ceased new feature development and scaled back support to focus on new initiatives within Instabase. PitchBook data indicates the company is now out of business as of May 2019.
Keywords: developer platform, spreadsheet backend, no-code, low-code, web development, data management, MIT research, Y Combinator, Ted Benson, Jake Lau, website builder, app development, Google Sheets API, Microsoft Office, database replacement, SaaS, CloudTech, DevOps, Instabase acquisition, web infrastructure, bi-directional data sync