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Conversations with technologists about technology. Hosted by the HackerNoon team.
HackerNoon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 45,000+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 4,000,000+ curious and insightful monthly readers.
Founded in 2016, HackerNoon is an independent technology publishing platform run by David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke.
Write anywhere, publish on HackerNoon.
Episodes

Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Creating an Open Source Platform
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
OKAY - here's what you need to know before you start your open-source platform. On this episode of The HackerNoon Podcast, we hear from Ben Bromhead, CTO of Instaclustr, and Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, about how they started their open-source platform. 🙀
On this episode of The HackerNoon Podcast:
- What was Ev's very first job? (01:44) And Ben's? (03:50) 🚣♀️
- What are the roles of different co-founders? (10:31) 🏃
- What do you do when you can't afford to hire new staff but you still need to GSD? (16:59) 💥
- How do you maintain a unique startup culture? (25:44) ❄️
- What did Ev learn from developing an open-source platform? (36:41) 🍭
- If open-source is so amazing, why WOULDN'T I make my product open-source? (41:50) 😵
- Why does Ben choose to follow the open-source movement? (43:46) 🧚♂️
- How do open-source companies make money? (49:37) 💰
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Connect with Ben and Ev:
- Connect with Ev at goteleport.com
- Connect with Ben at instaclustr.com
- Follow Ben on Twitter at @BenBromhead
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