The Journey
Fourteen years. SuccessInc to Milinx. From modems and pin drives to cloud infrastructure and patents.
SuccessInc was not a single product or a single moment. It was the beginning of a fourteen-year build that touched nearly every layer of what we now call internet infrastructure.
The journey — from SuccessInc through every platform and product that followed
1988 — SuccessInc
The Application Service Provider model. The AppNet platform. The first application delivered as a service over a network. Employment recruitment. Built on Minix. Funded personally. Before the web. Before cloud. Before SaaS.
The First Online Payment Gateway
Among the innovations built during the SuccessInc period was the first online payment gateway — a system for processing financial transactions over a network at a time when taking payment electronically was considered impossible by most of the industry.
The first online payment gateway — architecture and implementation, documented at the time
The Full Arc
From SuccessInc, the work continued through successive platforms: application gateways, IVR systems, online payment, cloud infrastructure, mobile applications, meta-databases, bio-encryption, and international patents. Each grew from the same foundation. Each proved the model further.
The complete arc — SuccessInc, AssuredCard, AssuredCredit, Milinx — and every technology built along the way
2001 — Milinx
By 2001, the industry had caught up with a name for what SuccessInc had been doing since 1988: Application Service Provider. Milinx — the company that evolved from this work — was recognized as an ASP industry leader.
What took the industry a decade to name, SuccessInc had been building for a decade.