I Was Todays Years Old When GameDevHQ Started Feeling Like A Real Company

Jonathan Weinberger
4 min readOct 23, 2020
GameDevHQ Lounge Chat — 10 employees :)

It’s a crazy thing running a business…99% of the time I feel like I’m completely winging it, and for the past 3 years, GameDevHQ has honestly felt like a hobby.

The reason I say hobby, is because it’s just always been me and my partner, Al. We had a community manager once, but it didn’t work out so well from an economic standpoint. Up till very recently, I was the only one working full-time on GameDevHQ. We’re a young startup, with zero experience of how to run an official business… And I think I like that…I feel like I can control the culture and fit and shape the operation of GameDevHQ how I want to (Hopefully for the better).

Let me share a little history of GameDevHQ and how It got started. I’ll write more on this on a full-blown medium article in the future, but for now, here are the highlights and the important parts.

Authorized Course: C# Survival Guide

3 years ago, Unity Technologies and I published a series of official unity courses. The intent was to provide retention and teach from a different perspective. (A non-spoonfed perspective). The partnership was a major success, and we built 5 courses in collaboration. It’s one of the…

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Jonathan Weinberger
Jonathan Weinberger

Written by Jonathan Weinberger

I’ve taught over 100,000 people how to code. I use game development as a gateway to software engineering. Learn more: https://gamedevhq.com

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