Engineering
Meet the people behind the product: John Edstrom
Meet John, the Director of Engineering for our Platform and Creator teams.
How one tech creator designed a tool suite through community-funded support
Tech creator Patrick Wardle leveraged his community support on Patreon to take his tool suite, Objective-See, from an aspirational passion project to a sustainable business.
Meet the people behind the product: Betsy Kao
Meet Betsy, a senior software engineer on our Engineering team in San Francisco.
Meet the people behind the product: Sandeep Rajan
Meet Sandeep, a leader on our Product team in New York.
Meet the people behind the product: Product Designer, Gabe Valdivia
Meet Gabe Valdivia, a Staff Designer on our Product team in New York.
Meet the people behind the product: Payments Engineer, Fiona Manzella
Meet Fiona, a Software Engineer on our Payments Engineering team in San Francisco.
Lessons in YAGNI¹ : Patreon’s *_hack” methods and why they’re not”
Patreon Engineering built for the future by creating DB schema and code that supported features that didn't yet exist in our software.
Please, Please Don’t A/B Test That
Trying to decide if an A/B test is right for your project? This handy A/B testing checklist will guide you.
Home — Helping Patreon Employees find things
As a company grows, finding documents, files or relevant information becomes more difficult. At Patreon, we created a process to keep our employees on the same page -- and able to find the files they need.
Introducing nion
Today, we’re excited to open source nion, a declarative API data management library built on top of Redux.
Why I Joined Patreon
Today is my first day at Patreon. When I told friends and family that I was joining Patreon, I got one of two responses. Either a friend would say something like: “Dude! That’s amazing! Patreon is great.” Or they would say “Why Patreon over other-San-Francisco-based-tech-company?” This post is an attempt to answer the second group. […]
An Open Letter to Boring Avatars Everywhere — Meet Foxes
Jeffrey Sun explains how Patreon offers something different for our avatar-less users while still keeping things interesting.