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Sachin Gupta and the work left on the wall
A dorm-room project became HackerEarth. For Sachin Gupta, learning to sell it opened the door to a second company - and another process he wanted to fix.
Latent Space gave AI builders a place to belong.
A newsletter became a meeting place for people turning AI models into working software. Now Latent Space faces the same problem as its readers: how to scale without losing what made it useful.
Glitch made coding feel like play. Who paid for the playground?
A remix button turned working web apps into invitations to create. Glitch’s hosting shutdown reveals the bill that simplicity leaves behind.
The Company That Made the Deadline a Product
Devpost began as a marketplace for challenges. Then it noticed the most interesting answers were software - and built a business around what happens when developers have a clock, a problem, and somewhere to show their work.
Game Factory wants your game to become a business
A working prototype is only the beginning. The Istanbul incubator connects developers with coaches, publishers and platform partners to tackle the harder job: keeping a studio alive.
TypeScript Developer and the art of catching mistakes early
A developer community gathers around a deceptively practical idea: let the computer catch more mistakes before your users do. The language at its center is now changing its own machinery.
Linux is free. Finding your way takes people.
Behind the Linux name on LinkedIn sits an independent community, helping people navigate an operating system with many makers. Its place in the business is the conversation around the code.
Kris Lande Is Betting AI’s Future on an Old Technology: Trust
After helping turn Salesforce learning into a global community, the OutSystems CMO has a new brief: make enterprise AI credible, useful, and human - one carefully designed detail at a time.
Laura Heisman Is Teaching Enterprise Marketing to See Around Corners
The Dynatrace CMO began in music-industry PR, learned brand craft inside developer communities, and now argues that AI should make marketers faster without making judgment optional.
Mike Swift Built a League for the Kids Who Would Rather Make Something
He arrived at his first hackathon expecting an elite coding contest. What he found was a room where beginners could belong - and a blueprint for more than a decade of building developer communities.
Major League Hacking Turned the All-Nighter Into a 5 Million-Person Developer Funnel
MLH started by putting rules, mentors and sponsor gear around chaotic campus hackathons. Now its real product is the moment a new developer stops watching tutorials and ships something - with a brand’s API inside it.
Colosseum Turned the Hackathon Into a Venture Pipeline
Most accelerators begin with an application. Colosseum begins with a build - then turns the strongest Solana hackathon teams into funded companies.
Gradual
Gradual is the seamless place to host events, educate and engage members, and grow your brand.
AnswerHub
The enterprise Q&A platform that let Epic Games, Unity, and IBM build their own Stack Overflows - born from DZone's developer empire, now part of IgniteTech's software portfolio.
Vivek Ravisankar
Vivek Ravisankar is the co-founder and CEO of HackerRank, the technical hiring platform he started in 2012 after leaving a developer job at Amazon. Frustrated by the hours engineers lost to unstructured interviews, he and co-founder Hari Karunanidhi built a way to measure programming skill directly. After several pivots and three tries at Y Combinator, HackerRank grew into a platform used by thousands of companies and millions of developers. Ravisankar's stated mission is to build a meritocracy in hiring, where a developer's skills matter more than their school, geography, or resume brands.
HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a developer-assessment and technical-hiring platform that helps companies screen, interview, and hire software engineers using automated coding tests, live coding interviews, and AI-driven interviewers. Founded in 2012 by IIT Roorkee alumni Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, it pairs enterprise recruiting software with one of the largest developer communities in the world, built through years of hackathons and programming contests. Today it serves hundreds of enterprise customers and is repositioning around AI-powered interviewing and evaluation.
Justine Davis
Justine Davis is the VP of Developer Marketing, Community, and Developer Relations at ServiceNow, where she oversees a developer community of more than one million members and shapes the narrative of ServiceNow as a global developer platform. With roots in digital marketing and a career arc that ran through Hotwire, Atlassian (over nine years), and Postman, she has built a reputation for translating complex technical products into language that resonates with developers and enterprise buyers alike. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, she is known for her candid takes on developer marketing, her emphasis on showing rather than telling, and her belief that DevRel and Developer Marketing are two sides of the same coin.
Hashnode
Hashnode is a blogging platform built for developers, engineers, and tech leaders to write, publish, and grow their technical audience. Founded in 2016 by Sandeep Panda and Syed Fazle Rahman, the platform hosts over 60,000 active blogs and attracts more than 4 million developers monthly. Hashnode offers a free-tier blogging experience with custom domain mapping, AI-assisted writing, and a headless CMS powered by GraphQL APIs - letting teams run enterprise-grade developer blogs and documentation without building infrastructure from scratch. Backed by Salesforce Ventures, Sierra Ventures, and angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Guillermo Rauch, Hashnode has raised $9.37 million and employs roughly 260 people across four continents.
Sandeep Panda
Sandeep Panda is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hashnode, a developer-first blogging and community platform that lets software engineers own their content and publish on custom domains. Founded in 2016 alongside Syed Fazle Rahman, Hashnode has grown to serve 3M+ monthly readers and 10M+ monthly views, backed by Sequoia Capital India's Surge, Salesforce Ventures, and angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel). A graduate of IIIT Bhubaneswar with a background in web development and technical writing, Sandeep has authored books on AngularJS and HTML5, and is now building Bug0, an AI-native end-to-end testing platform.