Inside the Y Combinator Experience With the Founders of Codecademy [video]

Post by Timothee » Fri, Nov 25, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

Post by morningwarrior » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 5:01 AM UTC

Timothee wrote: post #2

Finally connecting the dots: codecademy.com != codeacademy.org. I saw the former when it launched on HN, then the latter a few days ago on HN and was a bit confused that it didn't seem to be linked to YC at all. Now I finally see they are two different entities with a common goal but very different approaches. To make the matter worse, codeacademy.com redirects to codecademy.com.

Post by ajasmin » Sat, Nov 26, 2011, 5:41 AM UTC

Timothee wrote: post #5

morningwarrior wrote: post #4

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Yeah makes it even more complicated when major tech blogs call Codecademy Code Academy, and then people on Twitter get @CodeAcademy confused with @Codecademy. The Codecademy founders don't call their startup Code Academy and apparently didn't even know about the Code Academy in Chicago ( http://howilearnedeverything.com/2011/10/30/clearing-the-air... ), but then just a few weeks ago they bought codeacademy.com Intere…

Thanks for the link. The timeline as described in this post seems to explain, in my opinion , the somewhat odd name that "Codecademy" is. Since the start I've found it hard to pronounce and easy to misspell. It's not a big stretch to think they had "Code Academy" in mind and adapted it towards the end… Maybe not, but I know I would never go for "Codecademy" if I could go for "Code Academy".