Brian Donohue
Brian is a technical CEO living in Brooklyn, NY. He owns and operates Instapaper, and is currently exploring new products, ideas, and spaces.
Previously, Brian held Engineering Director positions at Pinterest and DoorDash, where he led organizations of 80 people. Before that, Brian was an entrepreneur based in NYC. A chapter which began with a failed startup and ended with selling Instapaper to Pinterest.
Along the way, he spun Instapaper out of Pinterest, and now runs Instapaper full-time again.
Contact
Writing
- Markdown Pain Points
- Surfacing Account Information & Filtering Spam in Zendesk
- Au Revoir, Tumblr
- Cora and Time Shifted Email
- Hotdog or Cheeseburger Image Classifier
- The Closed Web
- Microservices are Technical Debt
- Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper
- Going Full-Time on Instapaper
- 10 Years of Instapaper
- Building an Inclusive & Diverse Team
- ethTip: Open Source Plugin for ETH Tipping
- Building Fast and Slow
- Five Years without Cigarettes
- Migrating from Mailgun to SES
- Getting the Bigger Role
- Appification of Browser Extensions
- Converting Legacy Safari Extensions
- Dark Mode for Web
- Advice for Software Apprentices
- Tappable Essays
- Thirty
- Minimum Viable Team
- Open Source: IPShortcut
- Medium to Jekyll Conversion Tool
- Y Combinator Podcast: Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
- Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
- Open Letter to the Stevens Committee on the Gianforte Academic Center
- Instapaper Outage Cause & Recovery
- Rebuilding Instapaper Search
- Build your First Alexa Skill
- Instapaper Tweetshots
- Hacking TestFlight Invites
- Bookmarklets are Dead
- Making Instapaper Free
- Instapaper Fragmentions
- Instapaper Onboarding
- Work as hard as everyone else