113: Rick Casey on Building DIM (Destiny Item Manager)
Rick Casey shares what he's learned building, managing, funding an open source project over 8 million users.The app is Destiny Item Manager — a companion to Bungie's wildly popular looter-shooter Destiny.If you play Destiny, you've surely used this or scene it on stream.But even if you're not a gamer you'll learn a lot about what it takes to manage and succeed with open source at this scale.
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Rick Casey — Twitter, GitHub, Website
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- DIM — Destiny Item Manager — Control Your Items Your Way
- DIM on GitHub
- DIM on open collective
- DIM Discord
- bungie.net API
- Ben Hollis
- Kyle Shay
- Dave Solomon
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