Episode 27: Eric Holscher
Indiedotes Podcast
English - January 23, 2018 17:10 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCareers Business Technology development technology ruby ruby on rails rails careers programming developer tech software Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
An upfront conversation about how he settled on a business model and developed ethical advertising standards.
Show Notes:
Eric Holscher attended a 48 hour hackathon hoping to have a fun weekend building something. That project, Read the Docs, now has seven millions developers on the platform each month and is his full time job.
"I'm wearing a pager, people are depending on me, it's something that's important to the community, so I need to invest more into it."
Eric and I discussed how he settled on a business model, created ethical standards for advertising and why they avoided a subscription model. We also talked about how to build a sustainable open source project and the essential question he wrestled with after hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.
Show Links
Eric Holscher websiteRead the DocsWrite the DocsWhat Technology WantsA walk in the woods