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>I was the first full time engineer, and the company already had 20+ millions of monthly visitors and ~2m facebook followers. You mean they got to that level o
by vram22 10y ago
>I was the first full time engineer, and the company already had 20+ millions of monthly visitors and ~2m facebook followers.
You mean they got to that level of visitors and followers without a full time engineer to help make it all work?
Or was it something like multiple part time engineers?
- gedrap 10y agoThere were one or two part time engineers, who were freelancing while still at the university, for some time before I joined the company. When I joined the company, there was no monitoring, no tests, no automated deployments (drag and drop using ftp client), no A/B tests, etc. But the editorial team worked really hard to prepare the best content possible, and users kept returning for it. I was fully aware of it before I joined, thought it might be a fun challenge to turn it around. It was fun indeed :) But for the first year or two, while it was gaining initial traction, it was just wordpress installation on shared hosting, with a free wordpress theme. The founder is tech savvy but not an engineer. And it's a bootstrapped business, the typical born-in-the-college-dorm.
- LordHumungous 10y agoNo offense but that doesn't really sound like a tech startup so much as a media startup