Episode 37: Founding the dev.to platform - Ben Halpern

Recording date: 2019-05-21

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Ben Halpern @BenHalpern

Dev.to
Searching for Sleep on Dev.to
Dev.to on GitHub
John on Medium
John Papa on dev.to
"How I Write Articles" by John
Peacock release article
Peter Frank - co-founder - on dev.to
Jess Lee - co-founder - on dev.to
Top Tags
Code Climate
Code Climate score on dev.to
Web Storage
Fastly
Preact
Ali Spittel
Emma Wedekind
RegEx Cheat Sheet
Anna at dev.to
Anna's post on joining the dev.to team
dev.to vs Medium
Comparing Medium to dev.to
Why technical blogs belong on dev.to
Serverless app design by John Papa
dev.to API

Someone to follow

Mary Roach / @Mary_Roach
Ananya Neogi / CSS Can Do That

Timejumps

01:01 Learning about sleep
02:49 Guest introduction
03:50 What is Dev.to?
07:15 What's the business model for Dev.to?
10:45 How do you keep going with a project long term?
17:41 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
18:40 Badges on Github repos
24:42 What technologies are being used to build dev.to?
28:46 What's the userbase size?
30:14 What does a registered user get on Dev.to?
37:09 April Fool's joke gone awry
55:43 Someone to follow