Hachyderm.io, from Side Project to 38,000 Users and Counting

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Back in April, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kris-nova/ now principal engineer at GitHub, started https://thenewstack.io/build-your-own-decentralized-twitter-part-3-hello-mastodon/ as a side project in her basement lab. “The server started very small,” she said on this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast.

Though the rate at which new users are joining Hachyderm has slowed down in recent days, Nóva said, it stood at https://grafana.hachyderm.io/public

Suddenly having a social media network to “babysit” brings numerous challenges, including the technical issues involved in a rapid scale-up.

“I operate a Twitch stream, and we’re taking the proceeds of that and putting it towards operating service.”

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