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Company blog · blog.codecombat.comprogramminggames
null is the company blog at blog.codecombat.com, writing about programming and games. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CodeCombat's blog for its announcement that it open-sourced its whole codebase, its growth and YC story, and an essay on why games use so little violence.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-08
- Codecombat needs your help2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-25
- The Fastest Growing Open Source Project?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-31
- A Programming War Between 545 Wizards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-13
- We've Open-Sourced Everything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-07
What Hacker News says?
It looks really cool, but I don't see a way to easily self-host despite: https://blog.codecombat.com/we-have-open-sourced-everything/ Did you run your own environment?
Comment linking /we-have-open-sourced-everything/
on “Scratch is a big deal”Submitted We've Open-Sourced Everything as a story · 305 points
HN discussionSure! This is what we are trying first: http://blog.codecombat.com/beat-this-level-get-a-programming... Now we know we can definitely have enough skilled candidates, and though it's only been a week, it is looking really good on the employer end as well.
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on “We've Open-Sourced Everything”Submitted A Programming War Between 545 Wizards as a story · 244 points
HN discussionAre there successful startups working on what you may broadly call "programming games (with a serious practical purpose)"? I know of CodeCombat [1]. The story of how they got into YC [2] is pretty interesting: >With all the chaos trying to keep the server up and the bugs down, we slept little and prepared for the next day's Startup School even less. We had been tapped for on-stage Y Combinator office hours with Paul…
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on ““We’re winding down Starfighter””Submitted 180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres as a story · 108 points
HN discussionEventually! We're working (very gradually -- http://beeminder.com/d/boss ) on open-sourcing Beeminder. In fact, doing so is also inspired by Nick Winter and CodeCombat: http://blog.codecombat.com/we-have-open-sourced-everything
Comment linking /we-have-open-sourced-everything
on “Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding”Submitted Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup as a story · 80 points
HN discussioncodecombat went opensource and this accelerated the growth. http://blog.codecombat.com/uid/137237
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on “Ask HN: Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?”Submitted Beat This Level, Get A Programming Job as a story · 69 points
HN discussionAuthor of said project here. Some additional info: the library is live on CodeCombat ( http://blog.codecombat.com/new-experimental-languages-python... ), which means you can now code your CodeCombat games in Clojure! Happy hacking! ;)
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on “Show HN: Clojure parser and core library in JavaScript, live on CodeCombat”Submitted Write Code, Crush Foes, Get Hired – Multiplayer Programming Tournament as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThis article rightly points out that violence isn't actually much simpler to simulate than social interaction; it's just that players accept crude simulation because it's still fun. Space Invaders is essentially a game of Breakout with reskinned sprites, but just providing those skins lets the player imagine the details of an alien invasion. Maybe a similarly crude level of simulation could work for social games, if…
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on “Why So Few Violent Games?”Submitted Introducing Competitive Multiplayer Programming as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fastest Growing Open Source Project? as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted CodeCombat's live coding level editor as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New-Fashioned Programming Throwdown as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons Why You Shouldn't Hack on Open Source Projects as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ace of Coders Multiplayer Programming Tournament as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Having Your Algorithm's Ass Kicked by the Internet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codecombat needs your help as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ace of Coders programming tournament champions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ace of Coders Multiplayer Programming Tournament as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kings of Zero Sum: Strategies from the AI Wars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Our Way to Vector Artwork in HTML5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ace of Coders Multiplayer Programming Tournament as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why “Computational Literacy” Is Ruining Coding Education as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Programming Languages. One Victor. CodeCombat’s newest tournament as a story · 1 points
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