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Work · August 25, 2016

CodeNewbie - Creating Lifehacker - Part I

Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Gina Trapani

CodeNewbie - Creating Lifehacker - Part I launched on August 25, 2016 with 60 votes, #1,319 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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In part one of our two-part interview, Gina talks to us about her journey going from famous blogger to product creator, the risks of building an app based on APIs, and what it felt like to shut down her company. Gina Trapani is currently the director of engineering at Postlight and the founding and former editor of Lifehacker. She's also the founder and creator of Makerbase, an IMDb for web sites and apps and ThinkUp, an app that gives you insights into your social networks. Once upon a time, Gina Trapani started Lifehacker. It got big, really big, with the ups and downs of being the sole editor responsible for a website that millions of people read. But after awhile, she wanted to get back…from codenewbie.org

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