Making Makerbase

Stories about building a user-editable directory of people who make things out of bits & bytes. https://makerbase.co

Several People Are Making…

Several People Are Making…

Slack has launched a full-featured robust platform that seems poised to grow into a formidable ecosystem.
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Anil Dash
Dec 16, 2015
Future-proof sponsors & the ads we don’t hate

Future-proof sponsors & the ads we don’t hate

Amidst all the hand-wringing over ad blocking and intrusive tracking, there’s one set of advertisers that supports the independent Internet…
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Anil Dash
Nov 13, 2015
Who Makes Your Apps?

Who Makes Your Apps?

This talk from May 2015 was the first discussion of Makerbase and some of the reasons why we created it. Thanks to 99u for hosting the…
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Anil Dash
Nov 5, 2015
8 Steps for Preventing Abuse in a Web Community

8 Steps for Preventing Abuse in a Web Community

Makerbase was built to allow anyone to edit it — here’s how we’ve tried to stop abuse of that power before it starts.
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Anil Dash
Oct 30, 2015
Inspiring Makers on Makerbase

Inspiring Makers on Makerbase

When we launched Makerbase a few months ago, we started simple: We made a place to see all the people who make the apps and sites we use…
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Anil Dash
Oct 28, 2015

Trust & Safety on Makerbase

Makerbase is for anyone on the Internet, a place that people of any experience or ability can contribute to and participate in comfortably…
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Anil Dash
Sep 18, 2015
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