Episode 3 – 5/28/2007
Guests: Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle, SitePoint.com co-founders
Background: developers and entrepreneurs
Total Time: 30 minutes
To say I was excited to speak to these two gentleman would be an understatement. I discovered SitePoint.com about 5 years ago while I was still in college, but finally joined 4 years ago. Since then I have been a pretty active member there and haven’t felt the need to join any other web development forums. The thing that really made me stay there was the community feel that exists. I’ve always been impressed at how strong the community is when they have over 150k members.
In this interview, Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle tell us how SitePoint.com started and how it grew from its grassroots to the thriving web community it is today. They really do demonstrate why the forum has retained such a community feel by showing that members come first.
Podcast Highlights
- 1:20 – Matt explains how SitePoint got started
- 3:50 – How Matt and Mark came together
- 6:10 – Matt and Mark discuss the goals of SitePoint
- 7:30 – Sara asks how they manage their work when they are located oceans apart.
- 9:48 – Mark and Matt discuss the accusation that SitePoint is becoming too “commercial”
- 14:05 – Sara asks the guys to tell us what the plans are for the Marketplace
- 19:00 – Mark goes into details about the Contests section of SitePoint
- 23:02 – Sara gets personal with Matt and Mark… Do Corona and Robbie Williams go together?!?
May 28th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Great job Sara!
Obviously, we at Search-This are big fans of SitePoint and the model they have established on how to grow a community.
SitePoint does a great job providing free, relevant content to webmasters. Search-This hopes to follow in their footsteps.
Mark and Matt are on the opposite side of the globe from each other and you are in the middle! Isn’t the web wonderful!
Talk about two different accents, a Canadian and an Australian… That almost sounds like the start of a joke
May 28th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Hi,
your podcasts do really sound interesting, but I fear there’s no way that I’m going to hear these from within the browser.
I hope you’ll soon get an archive section for these!
May 29th, 2007 at 7:12 am
@FrankB: We will have a Random Bits main page within a week or two that will allow you to download them and subscribe to a feed and we are also working on putting them on iTunes. Give us a little more time. Thanks.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
@Golgotha
That’s great news! Thanks a lot and take your time.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:23 am
One more great podcast from Sara
Good job, girl!
@Mark: Sounds awesome!
June 4th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Very interesting to hear what sitepoint are all about and nice to put a voice to the names – good job
June 18th, 2007 at 8:53 am
I really think you could do better on the quality of the Podcast.. I can barely hear it.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Hey Will. As with anything this is a learning process. If you listen to the latest podcast, I think you will hear it much better. Unfortunately I am not a sound editor so am learning as I go along. If you have any experience or advice you would like to share, that would be great!
June 18th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Hey Will, sorry about the volume, I know it gets low at times – we are still learning the podcast thing. Did you listen to the Peter Flaschner podcast? The volume seems to be better there? We will get better in the future.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:10 am
damn it Sara beat me by seconds…
June 18th, 2007 at 9:13 am
ladies first mark
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
wow
its very reasonable point of view.
Good post.
realy good post
thx