About me

My name is Peter Coles, I graduated with a degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2007, and moved to NYC to work at a machine-learning, consumer-facing startup called Hunch. In November 2011 Hunch was acquired by eBay, and we opened up their New York office where I was the dev manager of the homepage team, overseeing a large reimagining of the homepage experience and expansion to international domains. I then joined the wearable jewelry startup, Ringly, to launch the initial pre-order campaign and then to run the software team.

After Ringly, I spent some time coding, hacking, and becoming part of the wonderful Recurse Center community. I then worked on my GoFullPage Chrome extension (aka Full Page Screen Capture), which included building out a customer support integration (and responding to thousands of tickets!), leading to tons of improvements, and then to build out premium editing and annotation features along with a fresh new website as the homebase: gofullpage.com.

I co-founded Superset and built it from zero, leading engineering, co-leading product, and staying hands-on in the code throughout. I architected and built our Superset Sheets product, helped grow the company to profitability and over 1,000 active paying customers, launched our Sheets AI features, and built a self-sufficient engineering team. With the company in a strong position, I transitioned leadership to my co-founder so I could pursue new ideas. I remain a proud supporter of the team.

This blog covers mostly technical topics related to web development—some as tutorials and some as random or goofy side projects—and it has a spattering of other material too. Enjoy a song below that has been randomly selected just for you!