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Build your own Redis, Git, Docker, SQLite from scratch. Become a top engineer.", "body": "> Hey everybody — it’s Sarup and Paul, the founders of [CodeCrafters.io](http://CodeCrafters.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/672fcd25-74e0-49e0-b93f-8111386d6840)\n\n# \n\n# We once built our own Git from scratch\n\nAnd ever since, we’ve been obsessed with how popular devtools work.\n\nWe’d binge on books, blogs, videos to learn the internals of Docker, Redis, SQLite… but it just never felt adequate. Nothing could really provide us with the same level of confidence as building an actual project.\n\n# \n\n# So we created the experience we wanted\n\nWe launched 4 hands-on challenges of the _Build-your-own-X_ format on our site, and had 1000s of engineers go through them. We also began maintaining GitHub’s 15th most ⭐️ repo, [build-your-own-x](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x).\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/052818e0-2fab-4d57-8ed4-81dc336d4053)\n\n# Turns out, it’s a great way to master languages\n\nSenior engineers don’t come across many resources suitable for their skill level, so especially for them, CodeCrafters was a worthy investment of time. In addition to learning about how various devtools worked, they were:\n\n* Advancing their language skill (e.g idiomatic approaches)\n* Learning to design and refactor large code in a robust manner\n* Bonding with their teammates as they discussed approaches\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/dc589502-0ed5-4f1a-815f-5ce0069fa9de)\n\n# So we re-imagined the learning experience\n\nThe experience is now organised around languages. The challenges now come with recommended approaches from language experts. Once you implement a feature, you can ask — _how would a Pro do it?_\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/4a2972b2-654c-4696-8041-f8e5c489887a)\n\nEngineers at companies like GitHub take advantage of their L&D budget to pay for CodeCrafters. To support teams that care about investing in their growth, we’ve introduced Private Leaderboards, a Slack app, and expensing workflows.\n\n# Asks\n\nWe can’t wait to help teams bond and grow with [CodeCrafters](https://codecrafters.io).\n\n* **Engineer**? Give CodeCrafters a shot, in your [favorite language](https://app.codecrafters.io/tracks)!\n* **Work in Engineering Enablement**? I’d love to learn about the different education initiatives at your company\n* **Well-wisher /** **existing customer**? Please send us a hi! It’s what keeps us going.\n\nI can be reached at [sarup@codecrafters.io](mailto:sarup@codecrafters.io) and over Twitter.\n\n— [@sarupbanskota](https://twitter.com/sarupbanskota)\n\nP.S. Think we’re the only ones crazy to build our own Git for fun?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/1c81f82a-7e46-4115-9d74-8230e6cd6207)\n\nWe asked Pete Koomen, co-founder of Optimizely, about [how he’s learning Rust](https://codecrafters.io/videos/pete).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gh3-codecrafters-advanced-code-challenges-for-senior-engineers", "votes": 152, "created_at": "2022-06-29T13:09:34.080Z" } ] }, { "id": 32526, "name": "Pluto", "slug": "talentpluto", "former_names": [ "Talentpluto" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5ed12c5974a12759a4a83154066015d6c91fc4df.png", "website": "https://talentpluto.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Resumes made careers readable. 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We’re building Pluto ([talentpluto.com](https://talentpluto.com/))\n\nResumes made careers readable. LinkedIn made them searchable. Pluto makes them understood.\n\n\n\n**TL;DR** - A professional talks to Pluto for 10 minutes about what they’ve done, what they’re great at, and what they want next. Pluto makes that context discoverable to the right people and AI agents, helping them understand the person more fully. When there’s a real fit, Pluto can also make a warm introduction to a startup.\n\n18K+ professionals have already shared their career context with Pluto. 100+ companies use Pluto to meet people with their full story, including Mercor, David AI, Rho, Warp, and Runlayer.\n\n**Ask:** Talk to Pluto and let it get to know your work. If you’re hiring, send us the role and we’ll introduce you to people with context and confirmed interest.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nA resume and online profile are not enough for the AI era.\n\nThey show where someone worked and what title they had. They do not capture what the person actually did, what they are unusually good at, and what they want next.\n\nThat context usually lives in conversations. So professionals get reduced to keywords, logos, and titles, while the people and AI agents trying to understand them are left with an incomplete picture. \n\nHiring makes this problem obvious. Companies miss great people because the real signal never makes it online. But as AI agents increasingly help people find, evaluate, and connect with one another, every professional will need a richer, more accurate way to be understood.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nPluto is an AI voice agent that understands a professional’s career and puts that understanding to work.\n\nProfessionals talk to Pluto for 10 minutes about their experience, strengths, goals, preferences, and what they want to keep private. Pluto asks follow-up questions, remembers the context missing from their resume, and makes them discoverable to the right people and AI agents.\n\nCompanies tell Pluto who they want to meet. Pluto searches its network and the broader market, understands fit on both sides, privately confirms interest, and makes a warm introduction when both sides want to connect. No mass applications. Professionals stay private and in control. Companies meet people who are already understood.\n\n**How It Works**\n\n1. Talk to Pluto for 10 minutes\n2. Review what it learned and choose what to share\n3. Get found and understood by the right people and AI agents\n4. Get introduced to startups when there’s a fit\n\n### **Why We Started This**\n\nThe best hiring has always happened through trusted, high-context introductions. We think AI can make that possible for everyone.\n\nWarm introductions are one way Pluto puts that understanding to work today. 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