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Interview with Peter Krumins, CEO of Browserling

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Browserling is a cross-browser testing service started in 2010 and co-founded in 2011 by Peter Krumins (CEO) and James Halliday. Located in Oakland, California. We have conducted an interview with Peter. When did you start Browserling and what inspired you to deal with browsers? I started Browserling in 2010. I teamed up with my friend James Halliday who I met on IRC and we built technology that streams the desktop of a virtual machine to your browser. This technology let anyone connect to any virtual machine and use it from their browser. We weren't sure how to monetize this so we built Browserling that only streams browsers to your browser. We used Amazon EC2 to launch various versions of Windows virtual machines (XP, Vista, 7, etc) and we installed all the possible browser versions on these virtual machines. This allowed users to launch any browser in their own browser and test their websites. Who will benefit most from your services? Web developers will benefit ...