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Roadie
Company blog · roadie.io/blog · on HN as grinnickprogrammingweb
Roadie is the company blog at roadie.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Developer Portals Are a Superpower”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover Backstage, the service catalog created inside Spotify, and a two-year effort to do what Backstage does for free. The comments are a job listing and bare links to Roadie's pricing page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Roadie unifies your services, documentation, and tribal knowledge into a single source of truth—powering AI tools with the structured context they need to ship code, not hallucinate.
Most-linked posts?
- Developer Portals Are a Superpower2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-12
What Hacker News says?
Roadie.io | Javascript engineer | Remote Europe Roadie helps companies manage their internal services by making it easy to adopt Backstage. Backstage is a service catalog which was created inside Spotify and has been battle-tested in production since 2016. Every day, thousands of Spotify employees use Backstage to do critical development and operations work. for more details visit https://roadie.io/careers/javascrip…
Comment linking /careers/javascript-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted How to avoid leaking your customer's source code with GitHub apps as a story · 50 points
HN discussionThis is exactly why we created https://roadie.io I'm the founder.
Comment linking /
on “I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free”Submitted How to avoid leaking your customer's source code with GitHub apps as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://roadie.io/pricing/
Comment linking /pricing/
on “I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free”Submitted Backstage by Spotify – The Ultimate Guide as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Model Monorepos in Backstage as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross cloud token exchange: AWS – GCP (without gcloud) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer Portals Are a Superpower as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developer Portals Are a Superpower as a story · 2 points
HN discussion