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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Scaling for 100M+ Users: Dubsmash's Tech Journey
Code Story podcast episode S3 E14 features Tim Specht discussing the technical journey of Dubsmash, from its origins as a fun video creation app in Berlin to scaling for over 100 million users. The episode covers the founding story, the decision to simplify complex features into short shareable videos, and the eventual acquisition by Reddit.
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Summary
Code Story podcast episode S3 E14 features Tim Specht discussing the technical journey of Dubsmash, from its origins as a fun video creation app in Berlin to scaling for over 100 million users. The episode covers the founding story, the decision to simplify complex features into short shareable videos, and the eventual acquisition by Reddit.
Tags
startup · podcast · scaling · dubsmash · reddit-acquisition · mobile-engineering · video-creation
Key entities
Tim Specht (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · Dubsmash (organization, 0.99) · Reddit (organization, 0.97) · Code Story (organization, 0.95) · Berlin (location, 0.95) · Brooklyn (location, 0.85) · scaling (concept, 0.9) · mobile engineering (technology, 0.85) · Transistor.fm (organization, 0.7) · Squadcast (organization, 0.7)
Classification
transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 11 Aug 2026