Hipcamp

In the spring of 2014, after I left Hackbright, I joined my friend and one of my first-ever javascript students, Alyssa Ravasio, and Eric Bach, to found Hipcamp. Towards the end of my time at Hackbright, I began incubating Alyssa at Hackbright in an unused classroom upstairs. We’d meet after classes and at lunch and talk about how to build the process. Originally we were web-scraping camping sites and keeping them up to date by running the scrapers on our laptops. I was the CTO while we launched, but as we didn’t have a great deal of funding in the beginning, I had to consult and teach while we raised enough funding to hire some developers. While I was there, we built the first site and raised a few million dollars of funding, and began the grand campaign to free US parks data from Reserve America.

Here’s Alyssa telling that story on REI’s podcast!

https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/

You can earn money if you have land with hipcamp: https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/host help us get more people outside!