How we convinced founder-angels to invest in our developer tool startup

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-convinced-founder-angels-to-invest-in-our-developer-tool-startup-f2e3bc59cbcc

by ingve • 9 years ago

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mrborgen5• 9 years ago

Hey, I'm the author of this article. Happy to answer any questions people might have.

soneca• 9 years ago

Wow, great post! I have a question: would you consider having me as a remote intern at Scrimba?

Just putting my neck out there. :)

Some more context about me: http://rodrigo-pontes.gomix.me

mrborgen5• 9 years ago

Interns aren't something we're currently looking for, but send me an email at per@scrimba.com :)

20years2• 9 years ago

I run some coding workshops for 6th to 8th graders and would be interested in using scrimba for some of the lessons. Are you currently opening this up to beta testers that can implement it in a real world scenario?

mrborgen5• 9 years ago

Yes! Just signup and start creating :)

Would love to speak to you as well, my email is per@scrimba.com

myowncrapulence• 9 years ago

Wow. This is an amazing tool (Scrimba) to begin learning any web development. Serious kudos.

suresk• 9 years ago

It definitely feels like getting developer tools bootstrapped/funded is harder than other things sometimes, so congrats.

Mostly just wanted to say Scrimba looks pretty cool way to teach/learn coding - nice work!

mrborgen5• 9 years ago

Yeah, it seems so!

I'm glad you like Scrimba, thanks!

orb_yt• 9 years ago

It definitely feels like getting developer tools bootstrapped/funded is harder than other things sometimes

Is this backed by any concrete data? I am working on a developer tool/application myself, and was pleased to find programming tools was an item listed in YCombinator's RFS. What is the general consensus here?

burrows• 9 years ago

Prevailing wisdom says developers don't pay for tools so investing in them is stupid.

daveguy• 9 years ago

It may be that developer tools by definition have a fairly limited market. I guess if you were to build a developer tool that succeeds in the mythical "make everyone a developer" then people would throw money at you. However, most developer tools have a very limited market: existing developers.

That said, there are some very successful developer tool companies: atlassian, github, etc.

andrenotgiant• 9 years ago

I think this rethinkdb postmortem write-up best explains the original commenter's sentiment http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.ht...

caltrain• 9 years ago

Great read

leonroy• 9 years ago

Short, succinct and helpful article. Going through similar growing pains with my startup so this is timely. Scrimba looks great too, think it could really push the e-learning market forward.

This kind of tool would be great for Khan Academy's coding tutorials. Good stuff!

spraak• 9 years ago

I've watched Per Borgen grow as a developer. This is cool :) Just a few years (less than three, maybe two) they were blogging about just getting started as a 'real' developer

mrborgen5• 9 years ago

Thanks, but to be fair it's my co-founder Sindre who's built this. I've done some coding on the site, but not the editor :)

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