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Some memories around the founding of dev.to

Ben Halpern on April 04, 2018

This is in response to this post: Is there an article about the creation of dev.to? Daniel da Rocha ・...
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Shannon Crabill

"...it's a good idea to start with the basic boring barely-more-than-a-clone of other things and then build from there.."

I LOVE this quote.

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Ben Halpern

I really wish I could track down the place I originally heard that. My paraphrasing of it is pretty weak, honestly.

But this was like 10 years ago in college, and it was just a random entrepreneurship panel.

Ah the things that shape us...

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Daniel da Rocha

Thank you for that! Super inspiring... got some wheels turning in my head. As I read what you described I thought of my own profession - Architecture - and how we are so isolated from each other. Architects live in their own little world and are very competitive. Sharing is almost non-existent... maybe it is inherent to the profession, but maybe it is something we could change in the long run...

hmmmm.

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Srikanth

We are just an edge case there and on most platforms, but we fucking make the computers, the web, and everything in between, we can do a lot better for ourselves.

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