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Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A

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million global downloads, according to app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. million downloads for Poparazzi, which is largely in line with the startup’s claims, as these estimates aren’t an exact science.). He, along with his brother, co-founder Austen Ma, went through several pivots to get to Poparazzi, he told TechCrunch.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

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A developer can, on a whim, change their mind and do whatever they want with their open source code that, most of the time, anyway comes “as is” without any warranty. Developer Azer Koçulu ran into a trademark dispute with messaging app Kik because his npm package was called “kik.”

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The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app

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Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Instead, he and the company’s early team sought inspiration from games like Angry Birds and Clash Royale, looking to build a class that screamed more cartoon anarchy than lecture hall.

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Decoding ambiguity into opportunity: An interview with iLife Founder Nelson Lee

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Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. ” This early exposure to entrepreneurship also helped Nelson develop a keen ear for listening to user needs, allowing him to create a product that vibes so closely with real-life demands.

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Gravitee nabs new cash to simplify API development and management

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of developers responding said that they expect to use APIs more or the same as in 2021, while only 3.8% Some developer teams are struggling to make APIs useable as a result, leading to duplicated efforts, wasted engineering hours, and missed revenue opportunities. When asked to predict API usage in 2022 in a recent survey , 90.5%

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EWA, which taps into popular media to teach languages, hits 51M downloads and 3.5M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

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In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5

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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

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Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 Founder Tommy Dang started the company at the end of 2020 after working together to build internal low-code tools at Airbnb. million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. Mage dashboard.