Codecademy launched using Masad's open-source infrastructure library

“This startup Code Academy like, maybe a couple months after I open sourced all the infrastructure that we built and, like, I click on the site, and it was, like, going viral, right, and they built this, like, interactive way to learn how to program, because learning how to program at the time is, like, it's, like, textbook and all of that, But they built this thing where it's like this, you know, like the course kind of talks to you and like gives you these exercises and you have to code with it. It was a very novel idea. And at the time it was like the hype was around MOOCs. Massively online, open online courses. And I had a feeling that they're using my stuff. I just like the way the system worked. And then I try to like, I kind of look behind the scenes and I evaluated it. So I put a comment on Hacker News. It was like, oh, you're using this library, my library. And then two days later, I get an email from the CTO, Ryan Bubinski, and he's like, yeah, I'd love to chat with you.”

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