Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
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Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#2IANAL, but I think they should use "DEV.to team" or "DEV team" instead of DEV for their branding to prevent it sounding like FOOD team against FOOD industry.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#3Been a big fan of DEV since the early days. Congrats!
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#4Their business model sounds interesting to me. If anyone has used any of their software, I'd like to hear more about your experiences.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#5Dev'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 implosion of Medium due to user-unfriendly decisions likely helped Dev out, so there's a bit of good luck there too.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#6Dev'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…
Ah I had wondered where all those Twitter accounts liking and retweeting each other had got to.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#7Their business model sounds interesting to me. If anyone has used any of their software, I'd like to hear more about your experiences.
We have some private alpha users, but mostly the re-usable software isn't quite there yet.
We've been mostly focused on phase 1 which is our own use of the software, but have a roadmap to get more folks on the underlying platform in 2020.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#8IANAL, but I think they should use "DEV.to team" or "DEV team" instead of DEV for their branding to prevent it sounding like FOOD team against FOOD industry.
Branding has been the bane of our existence, we're gradually figuring it out.
Luckily our longterm plans revolve around helping other people use our software under _their_ name.
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#9Dev'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 haven't heard of it before and I'm trying to figure it out from the home page, but it just seems like a subreddit for software developers? I assume there's more to it, but..?
Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
#10Dev'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 haven't heard of it before and I'm trying to figure it out from the home page, but it just seems like a subreddit for software developers? I assume there's more to it, but..?
Honestly, that sums it up well enough. But the devil is in the details.