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📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE
In the 12th episode of the main series, we hosted Pierre de Wulf - the co-founder and one of the core developers of ScarpingBee.
Tune in to learn about Pierre, his path to running a successful business and the challenges he had to face along the way. In this episode, we also cover the technical challenges of building & operating developer-oriented software products. Together with us, you'll see that a "programmer's life" comes in different forms and flavours!
📑 TOPICS COVERED
👉 How programmers could use their day-to-day job to find a business idea
👉 Advantages and disadvantages of being a dev and building a product (both for marketing and building)
👉 Getting involved in the community you want to help now
👉 How ScrapingBee is built internally
👉 Why developers are the coolest testers in the world :)
👉 How Pierre approaches architecture and scalability challenges
👉 What techniques and practices are applied to help a small team to build their product
⌚ TIMELINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:02 - Welcome to 12. episode - meet our guest - Pierre de Wulf
00:10:59 - How developers can find ideas for their own products?
00:16:10 - How to make business out of the open-source projects?
00:18:21 - Is it worth to target developers as potential customers?
00:19:40 - What it takes to stop being the developer and start an own business?
00:25:00 - How to distribute responsibilities - on the example of ScrapingBee team.
00:26:00 - How to use the power of developers community to kickstart your product?
00:30:14 - What problem does ScrapingBee solve?
00:32:41 - What (technical) challenges Pierre needed to solve to make ScrapingBee work?00:38:58 - How ScrapingBee is secured against misusing of its API?
00:42:50 - What's under the hood of ScrapingBee API?
00:47:24 - What are the good development practices that are cultivated in ScrapingBee?
000:50:56 - What programming languages have been used to create ScrapingBee and why those?
00:54:44 - What programming principles are applied to ScrapingBee API codebase?
00:57:12 - Pierre's "words of wisdom" for our listeners
01:03:11 - Pierre's recommendations on valuable resources to learn from
01:04:30 - How to reach Pierre and find more about ScrapingBee
🤝 THE EPISODE'S GUEST
Pierre de Wulf
Co-Founder of ScrapingBee
You can find more about the project here: https://www.scrapingbee.com/
Twitter: / pierredewulf
Mail: [email protected]
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