Show Notes We recently underwent out biggest database migration yet. This time, to Amazon RDS. There were loads of advantages to this. Perhaps the biggest was getting onto a platform that is absolutely built for this. It feels good to be on a system that is well supported and well documented and perfect for what […]

Show Notes This podcast was recorded a number of months ago as we kicked off a big new project: a redesign of CodePen itself in partnership with Sparkbox. We're documenting the process along the way. If you listen to this podcast, perhaps you know the team on the CodePen side: Chris Coyier, Tim Sabat, and […]

About the Show In this episode we talk about when we lean on experts as a business. We can do so casually, like asking for advice over coffee. Or we can level that up to hiring on consultants and freelancers for their expertise. We've done both many times now. Show Sponsor For years, Media Temple's […]

This week we talk about what it took to wrap up the funding round we just went through. It took six months, but the money is actually in our account now, which is a rather surreal sight to see! There was a lot to go through. We probably signed a dozen or more documents along […]

Synopsis This week talk about documentation. As in, the information you make available to the people that use your site about how to use it. We have it. But is it any good? Eh. Could be better, could be worse. Show Sponsor For years, Media Temple’s Grid service has been the web hosting choice of […]

In this episode we talk about something pretty much every business needs to deal with these days: social media. Is it a marketing panacea? A time sink? A customer service portal? We certainly don't have all the answers, but we're trying. Episode Sponsor For years, Media Temple's Grid service has been the web hosting choice […]

This week we have on special guest Dee Gill. Dee does lots of work for us at CodePen. This week we have her on to talk specially about the work she did revolving around our funding. Part of that was financial data forecasting growth and profit and things like that. It's not quite as easy […]

This week we're continuing the conversation about our recent funding. There are loads of documents that are a part of the process. We talk about Californa vs Delware, LLC vs S-Corp vs C-Corp, Shares vs Preferred Shares, YC AA Docs vs Series Seed Docs, and more. Harvest makes time tracking easy for developers. Start a […]

Pretty big news for Team CodePen! We're in the process of finalizing our first ever funding round. We're going to do a few podcasts directly on this subject, and it's likely all our future podcasts will be influenced by it in some sense. Here's some answers to some of the obvious questions: How much? $1,000,000 […]

Our topic this week is marketing. Drip marketing, specifically. It's hard to explain all the features and benefits of your app to your users, and drip marketing (commonly known as automatic email responders) is a great way to explain features to your users. In this episode, we're going to share why drip marketing is important […]