CodeCombat
company on 1 show · 8 statements across 1 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
8 statements about CodeCombat, every show
Graham: CodeCombat is accepted into Y Combinator live during Startup School
“You didn't realize that, but that was your Y Combinator interview. You're in the next batch.”
Winter: CodeCombat plans to open-source within a few months
“Yeah, so we're thinking open sourcing in the next couple months to really capitalize on the interest.”
Saines: CodeCombat servers hit capacity at 15,000 visitors and 200 concurrents
“So we maxed out the server at 15,000 people, we had 200 concurrent, but we really don't know, because we were actually, people were just getting four or fours.”
Winter: Hard Game Levels Motivate Users to Learn Advanced Concepts
“And generally, if you make the levels hard enough, which you're able to do when they have a reason to complete it, they try really hard, then you can get them to do harder and harder stuff as a natural progression of the game.”
Winter: CodeCombat Focuses on Core Programming Before Software Engineering
“So the software engineering part of learning to be a developer, that's something we can add later, focusing on core programming for now.”
Winter: CodeCombat's launch traffic overwhelmed servers for 24 hours
“We can only serve a certain fraction of the traffic that we're getting, and that's been going on for 24 hours.”