This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by Trey Huffine
An Interview with daily.dev’s CEO and Co-Founder, Nimrod Kramer
This week we chatted with Nimrod Kramer, the CEO and co-founder of daily.dev. daily.dev is the top news resource for programmers and one of the largest communities with 150k+ active developers. In this interview, Nimrod shares their mission of building a platform where developers grow together, and how they have achieved explosive growth over the past few years.
What does your company do?
daily.dev is on a mission to build a platform where developers grow together. We provide a feed of the hottest tech news to help developers read more quality articles and stay up to date.
How long have you been at your company and what are your responsibilities?
In a couple of months, it’s going to be two years since we went full-time on the project. As the CEO of the company I see myself responsible for three main things:
- To make sure that we build a robust team with the outstandigly talented people
- To make sure we have the best culture people can wish for at their workplace
- To make sure we always have enough money in our bank account
Besides that, since we’re an early-stage startup, I do also focus on building parts of the company such as growth and product marketing.
What attracted you to the idea?
The developer community that was created around daily.dev. When it just started, daily.dev was a side project and it started gaining traction organically. At some point, the community voice became so dominant that it’s gravity made us realize we should devote ourselves full-time to the project and go big on it!
Today my main source for motivation comes from the 150k+ active developers we have on the platform. Those developers are involved in countless projects that are (probably) used by billions of people worldwide. Being able to provide them with valuable information, spark their creativity and accompany their professional growth is just priceless. That might be a cliche, but by helping developers grow we feel that we contribute to making the world become a better place.
How did daily.dev start and what are your insights?
daily.dev, which back in 2019 was called “Daily Now”, was something we built for internal use of our own engineering department in the previous company we founded. We never thought about it as a thing that would turn out to be a thriving business.
We focused on easing the pain of staying updated as it took our developers a lot of time and effort. Apparently, the same problem was quite common for many other developers worldwide who adopted the product and recommended their friends to do the same. That’s how we got the initial traction.
The next big milestone was when we decided to open source the project. All of a sudden, developers could directly contribute to the codebase and help us build more features, fix bugs, etc. Looking back, it was an amazing decision that built a lot of trust in daily.dev among the developer community. As we speak, the daily.dev repo has more than 7,000 stars!
What makes your company unique?
One of the things we are proud of is that we oftentimes hire our most active users. We are very fortunate to have a product that serves developers, and having people in your team who use the product themselves is awesome! In many other companies you’ll get to build a product that is used by other people, but developers who work at daily.dev can build a product for themselves and their friends.
What makes your culture special?
We are grateful for all the love we get from so many developers worldwide and we constantly thing about ways we can give back. One unique thing about our company culture is that every team member gets an annual budget to sponsor open source projects and maintainers of their choice. Open source maintainers work hard, and they deserve to be appreciated not only in reputation but also financially. Through those sponsorships, we encourage our team members to show gratitude and inspire other companies to do the same.
What technology stack do you use, and why did you choose this stack?
The front end is Preact, which is a compatible version of React, just smaller. We use Tailwind on the front end as well. We run it as a monorepo to handle the extension, web app, and everything. On the back end side, we have Node.js for APIs with PostgreSQL mainly.
We use Python for scraping content, and Golang for very specific ETLs, like high-performance analytics systems and processing. We also use ClickHouse, BigQuery, Google Cloud, CircleCI for CI/CD, and Pulumi.
What are some of the most interesting problems you’re solving?
We are working on a new feature on our browser extension which will augment data from daily.dev in a sidebar on top every article page you visit — upvotes, comments, and even an AI-generated TL;DR of the article. The challenge there was to not impact the performance of the page. We see ourselves as guests on the page, so we don’t want to hijack and impact the behavior. We had to reduce the number of requests whenever a page loads and make sure everything stays out of the way.
What will the world look like once your company achieves its vision?
We will be living in a world where developers have a home that they deserve so much. By now, there is such an abundance of content, tools, communities, and whatnot. We hope daily.dev would be that home for the global developer community. That way, developers will be able to collaborate better than ever before and support each other in their professional growth journey.
Are you hiring and for what roles?
We are hiring for various positions in our engineering and product departments. Visit out hiring page.
What are the most exciting parts of working at your company?
We are a fully remote company and we work on a non-linear working schedule; this means that you can schedule your day and align it to your personal life. And also every feature we ship is used by more 150k developers.
Where can we go to learn more?
- Website: https://daily.dev
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/dailydotdev/daily
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydotdev
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This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by Trey Huffine
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