I never understood having Co-CEOs. Why not make Peter CRO or similar, and have a clearer structure.
Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
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#12Talking about Dev.to on HN feels strange. Maybe I'm on the wrong forum.
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#13I never understood having Co-CEOs. Why not make Peter CRO or similar, and have a clearer structure.
What if Halpern were to get hit by a bus? Then there would be no CEO.
The Oracle structure of co-CEOs leaves a company without any chance of instability, and works well for what it is.
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#14Their signup says "Open Source Forever" but to log in you have to pick between two proprietary platforms. I can't tell if that's irony or intentional.
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#15Talking about Dev.to on HN feels strange. Maybe I'm on the wrong forum.
How so?
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#16Omg. I read the topic and was great! yeas!
And then i tought. Why are all comments about the platform. I really read "Docker ... Inc. raised money". But clearly investors are stupid. dev.... m(
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#17Congrats to dev.to on the fundraise. This feels like a positive and exciting development for open-source companies built in the open.
dev.to is a unique and interesting service -- a company built in the open on open source technology, and has grown a large community based largely on that open-source culture.
A discussion I'd like to see from the dev.to founders is how they plan to evolve what is primarily an open-source community into a software company that operates that community. This seems like an important discussion to have, especially for an open company, as the concerns/goals/responsibilities of the dev.to community are different than those of the dev.to software company (the company that will sell software to other companies).
A few questions that come to mind:
* To what extent is the dev.to community values/rules/etc are codified somewhere? * What happens in the event of an acquisition, or if a new leadership/management team is brought in? * To what extent are the dev.to community values the values of the company, vs the values of the current company leadership? (this point is sticky, as all companies are a reflection of the people who operate it, yet, "company culture" is a very much a thing)
I'm optimistic and excited to see how dev.to navigates these challenges. It's a unique opportunity to experiment with new models not yet seen in venture-backed companies or commercial enterprises in general.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#18Dev's rise parallels the early rise of Medium: both the good (lots of organic use/praise), and the bad (signal-to-noise ratio is very low from the content I've seen shared outside the site). Given this funding announcement, that's not a bad thing from their perspective. To Ben's credit, there were some Medium-esque growth hacks earlier in Dev's history, which were removed after I pointed them out. The recent implosio…
I'm pro Dev.to, but also pro Medium. What's nice about them both is that they are differentiated incentive structures so it does create actual choice for readers and authors.
But, I'm not sure what implosion on Medium you're talking about. That sounds like the talking points that two publications were using as they left medium (HN and FCC). But there was a shady backstory there and a lot of posturing to set themselves up to be independent.
But those publications leaving just ended up leaving a temporary gap that other publications quickly filled. Towards Data Science is now doing well north of 10 million page views a month. That's twice the size of Dev.to.
And I helped launch a new publication in May, Better Programming, that just crossed 4 million views per month.
I think when people here say that Medium decisions are user unfriendly that they are only seeing half of the picture. The paywall in particular is very author friendly. Now Medium brings authors both money and readers and you barely have to work for it. That's a good deal and creates incentives for a lot more and better writing. That end result is user friendly.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#19Congrats to dev.to on the fundraise. This feels like a positive and exciting development for open-source companies built in the open. dev.to is a unique and interesting service -- a company built in the open on open source technology, and has grown a large community based largely on that open-source culture. A discussion I'd like to see from the dev.to founders is how they plan to evolve what is primarily an open-sou…
Ditto. Congrats to this team. Good people and good for the community.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#20Congrats to dev.to on the fundraise. This feels like a positive and exciting development for open-source companies built in the open. dev.to is a unique and interesting service -- a company built in the open on open source technology, and has grown a large community based largely on that open-source culture. A discussion I'd like to see from the dev.to founders is how they plan to evolve what is primarily an open-sou…
> dev.to is a unique and interesting service -- a company built in the open on open source technology
I don't want to be negative and please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they only open the platform well after they grew to a substantial size?
I don't know exact dates but I vaguely remember maybe reading a post there where the main guy said the platform wasn't open until well down the line.
It doesn't really matter in the end, this is more of a question on the accuracy of openness.