91: Derrick Reimer - Designing a Calmer Team Communication Platform

In this episode, Adam talks to Derrick Reimer about the product design decisions behind Level, a new team communication platform Derrick is building. They also talk about Derrick's decision to open-source the entire codebase, despite the fact that he's building a real business around it.

Show Notes

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Links:

• Level
• The War on Developer Productivity, the Level manifesto
• Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube
• Ghost, open-source publishing platform
• Discourse, open-source discussion platform
• "After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost",

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.