Inside the Y Combinator Experience With the Founders of Codecademy [video]

Re:Inside the Y Combinator Experience With the Founders of C... by Timothee on Friday November 25, 2011 @05:09PM (#3278380)

Finally connecting the dots: codecademy.com != codeacademy.org. I saw the former when it launched on HN, then the latter a few days ago on HN and was a bit confused that it didn't seem to be linked to YC at all. Now I finally see they are two different entities with a common goal but very different approaches.

To make the matter worse, codeacademy.com redirects to codecademy.com.

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Re:Inside the Y Combinator Experience With the Founders of C... by morningwarrior on Saturday November 26, 2011 @12:01AM (#3279102)

Yeah makes it even more complicated when major tech blogs call Codecademy Code Academy, and then people on Twitter get @CodeAcademy confused with @Codecademy.

The Codecademy founders don't call their startup Code Academy and apparently didn't even know about the Code Academy in Chicago (http://howilearnedeverything.com/2011/10/30/clearing-the-air...), but then just a few weeks ago they bought codeacademy.com

Interesting...

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Re:Inside the Y Combinator Experience With the Founders of C... by Timothee on Saturday November 26, 2011 @12:29AM (#3279152)

Thanks for the link. The timeline as described in this post seems to explain, in my opinion, the somewhat odd name that "Codecademy" is. Since the start I've found it hard to pronounce and easy to misspell. It's not a big stretch to think they had "Code Academy" in mind and adapted it towards the end… Maybe not, but I know I would never go for "Codecademy" if I could go for "Code Academy".

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Re:Inside the Y Combinator Experience With the Founders of C... by ajasmin on Saturday November 26, 2011 @12:41AM (#3279175)

Yeah. Never seen or heard "cademy" as shorthand for "academy"

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