Building your business on a platform like iOS, Wordpress, or Shopify gives you access to that platform’s customers, but comes with many tradeoffs. Joe helped to create the GitHub Marketplace and built his most recent startup as a Slack bot, so he knows both sides of this experience. He joins Adam and Wulf to discuss the power asymmetry between platforms and their developers; best-of-breed vs unified suites; and how Slack seeded their early ecosystem. Plus: timezones, definitely the easiest problem in programming.
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Joe Wadcan (@joewadcan)
Ballotshare
Business Development
Abstract
Fantastical
Evenbot shutdown posts
GitHub Boards
GitHub Marketplace, Heroku Add-ons, Slack Apps
Slack’s 5 years as a platform post
Travis CI, CircleCI
New Relic, Sendgrid
Zynga
Twitter acquires Tweetie (2010)
Sherlock app
