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CodePen

3 cofounders who worked at SurveyMonkey started CodePen as a side project.
First version took a month to build. Got 1,000 signups first week, didn’t expect that.
Early marketing: Chris Coyier drove 70% of early traffic via tweet. He already had a big following on Twitter at the time.
Timeline:
Written in Ruby. Started on RackSpace, moved to AWS.
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business indiehacker
Jan 13 2023

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