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Felippe Regazio • Edited

You wrote the first version of DEV all alone?

Did you had any overall ideia in terms of development about what to do, how to start, any previous experience in build similar platforms or was a freestyle beggining?

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Ben Halpern

I tried to stick within the things I knew Ruby on Rails could do well, and put off the things that might be harder.

I also settled in on one core feature above all else: performance.

I figured if the pages would load quickly, people would want to come back. And when you make this the #1 priority it helps you simplify and ship what matters.

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Felippe Regazio

Tks for the quick tip. You've done a great job.

Sometimes im on cellphone with a poor signal, then a poor connection, and i still can read the dev.to posts ;P