Dru Riley

Background

IT Support at City of Tallahassee
IT Degree from FSU
Software Engineer at BLiNQ Media
Senior Software Engineer at DealerMatch
Big Data Engineer at Manheim
Took a mini retirement
Building Trends.vc


Projects

Trends.vc

Trends helps founders and investors discover new markets and ideas.

VirtualMeetups

The best way to find your tribe.

ProductExamples

Tiny lessons in product design.

SaasReport

SaasReport provided competitive intelligence to SaaS marketers. Built to help product marketers eliminate competitor blindspots. 

DevTrends

A data-based newsletter that tracked changes in demand and pay for developer skills. 

 


Reuse Timers

An iOS app built to quickly start common timers.

Set timers in one tap instead of scrolling to set time.

Built using React Native.


B2B SaaS Marketing Playbook

An annotated lookbook (or swipe file) of marketing strategies used by B2B SaaS companies.


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Kamikaze Chrome Extension

Automatically kill idle tabs after a predefined time period.


Gemrat

A Ruby CLI that works similar to NPM and Yarn.

Gemrat allows Rubyists to install Gems from the command line without touching their Gemfile or running bundle. It has over 100,000 installs.



White House Hackathon

Participated in the first hackathon ever held at the White House in 2013.

Black Founders Hackathon

Mentored the team that won first place.


Shommi

A web app that used natural language processing to determine intent behind tweets and find leads for businesses with high customer lifetime value.


Interviews


Writing


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