developer

also referred to as: developers

11 statements across 6 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2018 by Vivek Ravisankar · across every show →

Everything said about developer, oldest first

Mar 30, 2018
Assertion Supported
Ravisankar: One in four developers learned to code before driving
“One in every four developers learn to code before they learn to drive.”
Vivek Ravisankar Mar 30, 2018 ▶ 27:12 Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
Mar 30, 2018 bullish
Prediction Held up
Ravisankar: Most developers will learn to code before driving by 2028
“If you just extrapolate the trend line, I think this will be two and four or three and four developers will learn to code before they drive in the next decade or so.”
Vivek Ravisankar Mar 30, 2018 ▶ 27:51 Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
Mar 30, 2018 positive
Insight
Ravisankar: Developers motivated by money hit ceilings sooner than builders
“If you had a monetary value associated with it you might just focus a lot on that and you will reach a ceiling pretty soon. This is just my hypothesis. So versus if you're, if you really Fall in love with the idea of building or creating new things. The ceili…”
Vivek Ravisankar Mar 30, 2018 ▶ 44:22 Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
Mar 30, 2018 positive
Insight
Ravisankar: Truly great developers code to build things, not for salaries
“In a very longer term the really great developers are people who did it, not because they'll get a job, but because they really wanted to, Build something. They really wanted to get this, whatever the idea that they had in mind out.”
Vivek Ravisankar Mar 30, 2018 ▶ 44:00 Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
Jan 24, 2020
Insight
Migicovsky: Developers prematurely shoot down ideas before evaluating potential upside
“I think too often, especially, like, developers, we're already internalizing the, like, How difficult things are going to be to build when we might not have understood, like, the potential benefit from building this, and it's always a trade-off. So, like, go b…”
Eric Migicovsky Jan 24, 2020 ▶ 44:56 YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Insight
Dessaigne: Dev tool founders must be developers themselves
“And the key aspect of DevTool is that you are going to build a technical product for developers. Obviously, you need to be a developer yourself.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 2:15 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Insight
Learning to sell is much easier than learning to communicate with developers
“Learning to sell is way easier than learning how to speak with a developer.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 32:19 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 negative
Insight
Dessaigne: Developers will not build on closed-source new frameworks
“Developers wouldn't implement on top of a new framework that is not open source.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 16:39 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Mar 13, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Field: Software developers will soon call themselves designers
“I think people that call themselves developers today, and they call themselves designers, you know, in the near future. That doesn't mean they're not writing code. It just means that they're gonna be thinking more holistically about the product experience alon…”
Dylan Field Mar 13, 2025 ▶ 8:33 Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in” · Y Combinator
Apr 25, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Massad: In 2023, Replit explicitly chose not to target traditional developers
“So at some point in 20, 23 we just made it an explicit goal of like, we're not going after developers.”
Amjad Masad Apr 25, 2026 ▶ 5:15 Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026 bullish
What-if
Pomel: Solo engineers using AI do six months of work in days
“We saw like literally, I mean, absolutely excellent developers, like not beginners, but people rebuild whole systems in a couple of days alone that were absolutely amazing. Things that would have been possible, but, you know, done by a team of six, over six mo…”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 25:04 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
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