63 // Platforms with Joe Wadcan

Building your business on a platform like iOS, Wordpress, or Shopify gives you access to that platform’s customers, but comes with many tradeoffs. Joe helped to create the GitHub Marketplace and built his most recent startup as a Slack bot, so he knows both sides of this experience. He joins Adam and Wulf to discuss the power asymmetry between platforms and their developers; best-of-breed vs unified suites; and how Slack seeded their early ecosystem. Plus: timezones, definitely the easiest problem in programming.

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Show notes

• Joe Wadcan (@joewadcan)
• Ballotshare
• Business Development
• Abstract
• Fantastical
• Evenbot shutdown posts
• GitHub Boards
• GitHub Marketplace, Heroku Add-ons, Slack Apps
• Slack’s 5 years as a platform post
• Travis CI, CircleCI
• New Relic, Sendgrid
• Zynga
• Twitter acquires Tweetie (2010)
• Sherlock app