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Saines: CodeCombat launched its beta yesterday

George Saines · Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator · Oct 26, 2013 · at 1:03

CodeCombat co-founder George Saines responds to Paul Graham's question about whether the product has launched yet at Startup School 2013.

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“It is, actually, we launched it yesterday.”

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The claim, plainly

CodeCombat launched the beta version of its game the day before Startup School 2013.

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Assessment

Startup School 2013 took place on Saturday, October 19, 2013, where CodeCombat co-founders Nick Winter and then-co-founder George Saines participated in on-stage office hours. Public records, including Reddit submissions and Nick Winter's contemporaneous postmortem, confirm that CodeCombat publicly launched its beta on Friday, October 18, 2013, exactly one day prior to Startup School 2013.

Startup School 2013 occurred on Saturday, October 19, 2013, at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California.
Public beta launch posts for CodeCombat were submitted to Reddit (including r/learnprogramming and r/programming) on Friday, October 18, 2013.
Co-founder Nick Winter's postmortem confirms the beta launched on Friday morning before their on-stage office hours the following day at Startup School.

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[1] ycombinator.com [2] thenextweb.com [3] webapplog.com [4] codecombat.com [5] youtube.com [6] codecombat.com [7] reddit.com [8] reddit.com

"CodeCombat" reddit "October 18, 2013" OR "Oct 18, 2013" "Startup School 2013" "October 19" Startup School 2013 date Y Combinator CodeCombat beta launched Startup School 2013 CodeCombat launch beta date 2013 Hacker News "CodeCombat" "Startup School" "office hours" 2013

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