CodePen Radio

Show Description CodePen has been working on a large, all-hands-on-deck project and through working on it we've realized we need to plan and organize our team better. Rachel, Chris, and Alex get together to talk through how we we went from probably a "D" in project management to, at least, "Most Improved". Show Sponsor: Hired.com […]

Show Description CodePen Meetups can be a ton of fun and place to learn about weird, interesting stuff that other folks are doing on CodePen - so we have Matt who organizes our Chicago CodePen Meetups to figure out what's working for him in Chicago and advice he might have for anyone else thinking about […]

Show Description This week we've got Manuel Weiss from Codeship to talk about remote and local employees, running standups in Slack, pricing Codeship along with user's success, supporting customers as humans, deciding when to add a sales team, taking funding, and best practicing when hiring. Show Sponsor: Hired 13:25 As a great developer, shouldn't companies […]

Show Description This week we've got Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett from Dribbble. Dribbble takes the cake for the business in this series that is the most similar to CodePen. Dribbble was first, paved a good amount of the ground we followed, and we unabashedly take many cues from Dribbble. We pick their brains on […]

Show Description This week we've got Hakim El Hattab and Owen Bossola, co-founders of Slides.com. They are a business that is smilar to CodePen in a number of ways, and we talk about things like building community among their users, reaching outside of the tech audience, ways they're marketing their Pro features, and fighting spam […]

Show Description We're talking with Justin Gitlin who recently dissolved the agency, Modeset, that he was a part of for over 10 years. They focused on working with startups and helping them build their MVP and then moving on to the next project and helping the startup replace them with employees. We talk about ways […]

Show Description We've got Dan from Roost - a web notification service that helps businesses send better notifications to users. They rely heavily on native web technology to do what they do, which is interesting and slightly unusual. We talk about their competition, how they keep ahead of the competition, freemium pricing vs sales, trying […]

Show Description We're chatting with Josh and Ben from Honeybadger, a service for tracking errors in a web app. We use Honeybadger here at CodePen and find it extremely valuable. We also worked with Josh on upgrading Rails here at CodePen. We talk about the decisions they've made along the way, how they're similar to […]

Show Description We're chatting with Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier ("Zapier makes you happier"), about Zapier's origin story, their fundraising experience, growing with your customers, dealing with user churn, marketing to new users as well as existing users about features they may have forgotten about, and how Zapier manages customer support issues. Show Links Part […]

Show Description This is part 3 in a mini-series where we talk with other businesses that, like us, make money off the web. We're chatting with Brandon Kelly and Brad Bell from Pixel and Tonic, the company behind CraftCMS. CraftCMS is a powerful CMS for building a bring-your-own-HTML website. We talk about things like the […]