Why I invested in daily.dev

Community is in the heart of humanity and developers communities are in my heart. For the last 20 years I have been involved with developer communities, and I am now super excited to be an investor in one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world.

I got my first Developer Relations job even before that was a thing. At the startup I was working at the time, we were developing an open source project called Mantaray (Distributed JMS implementation) and we started to see traction and community activity. I was one of the lead developers, and it was time for a promo. At least in my mind it was.

The management of that tiny startup did not have the funds to give me a promotion, so they did what is very common in poor startup — which is to give me more responsibility, and a title, without the compensation. They pitched me on a Lead Engineer and Open Source Community Manager. At the time I was young and stupid enough to believe that longer titles mean a lot more, and forfeited the ask for an increased compensation.

Within a week, I fell in love with the community. Developers are collaborative, they give hours of their time to debug issues without asking for anything in return, they trust each other and share knowledge and even review each other’s code for free. There isn’t any other profession that does that. It is unique and wonderful.

Since then, I was lucky to work and help build some of the most awesome developer communities out there — from Google Developer Group, Google Developer Experts & Launchpad, Microsoft MVPs, Slack Developer Community, Twitch Developer Community, and lately Twitter Developer Community.

Daily.dev is an amazing place where developers grow together. It is a community of like-minded engineers who share and learn. It is where you keep yourself up to date with what is happening in software development, but also an opportunity to be part of something larger than the sum of its members.

The daily.dev team are developers themselves, they are members of the community as much as they built the product that facilitates it. When they pitched me I fell in love with them and the future they were painting. There are many platforms that provide developers with tools that serve the success of their workplaces, but daily.dev is by-design for developers themselves.

I am super honored and happy to invest in them and that dream.