CodeCrafters pauses new challenge development after 4+ years of growth
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Summary
Sarup and Paul, co-founders of CodeCrafters, announce they are pausing the development of new challenges on their programming practice platform. The platform achieved remarkable success with its build-your-own-x repository becoming the first GitHub repo to cross half a million stars, and has served over 400,000 users including notable engineers and executives. The founders reflect on their journey of over 4 years and explain their decision to pause new challenge creation.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWe were excited to create a practice platform that would be worthy of the time and attention of users like yourself - engineers with programming experience.
Our build-your-own-x repo climbed to #1 on GitHub, recently becoming the first-ever (and only one in history) to cross half a million stars.
Our 400,000+ users have included prolific open-source developers, CEOs of hyper-successful infra startups, and staff engineers at household names.
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