Episode 37: Founding the dev.to platform - Ben Halpern
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Recording date: 2019-05-21

John Papa @John_Papa)

Ward Bell @WardBell)

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin)

Ben Halpern @BenHalpern)

Resources:

• 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