In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Daily.dev’s Francesco Ciulla about the platform's history, community features, and significant growth. They dive into the core ideas behind daily.dev, including its personalized feed for developers, new features like squads, community contributions, and tech stack. Francesco also shares his passion for Rust, and highlights the importance of content creation in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

00:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io

01:24 Overview and features of daily.dev

07:05 daily.dev's origin story

10:06 How Product Hunt fueled initial growth

12:21 Monetization and business model

13:53 Content and user experience

• Syntax Squad

22:21 Written content vs video content

24:29 Tech stack

• Terraform
• Pulumi
• React
• Vercel
• Fastify
• Postgres
• Go

25:37 Building a positive community

30:32 Moderation and tagging

35:03 Francesco's favorite place to publish right now

36:56 Quadrupling down on Rust

• Rust

39:38 Francesco's favorite Rust framework

• Actix

41:18 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs Sick Picks

• Francesco: daily. dev

Shameless Plugs

• Francesco: Francesco's YouTube Channel

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