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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.
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.
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.
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.