Episode 27: Creating Dracula PRO with Blood, Sweat, and Tears with Zeno Rocha

<center> <small>Sponsored By:</small> <a href="https://promo.linode.com/sustain/" target="_blank"><img src="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/2/27729c65-f4a6-4496-8c86-820e7f13b285/_xSnMSeA.png" width="150px" heigh="47px"></a> </center> Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry Guest Zeno Rocha (https://zenorocha.com/) Liferay Cloud (https://www.liferay.com/products/dxp-cloud) | Dracula Pro (https://draculatheme.com/pro/) Show Notes In this episode we talk with Zeno Rocha. He is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division. He is responsible for crafting the product strategy, shaping the features, and defining the future of DXP Cloud. Zeno also created the popular Dracula theme. We talk about the success of clipboard.js, Dracula theme, and the importance not just creating the code, but promoting is as well. 2:38 Zeno talks about how he started out as an Open Source developer. He also explains what the developer scene is like in Brazil. 05:15 Zeno has spoken at over 110 conferences now and Richard is interested to know why he has this drive to get more views and work on social problems. 9:54 Zeno explains how he got involved in Dracula Theme and clipboard.js. Let’s just say there are 28,000 stars. 11:54 Zeno gets into the importance of promoting libraries that we create. If you want to reach and help more people. We as a group need to promote! He discusses what he did to promote his stuff. 15:45 One of the guys asked Zeno how did he get from zero to 5,000 stars overnight. He explains it’s not because of Hacker News but from something else. 18:20 Zeno talks about his design capabilities with Dracula. He says he’s not a designer or a marketeer. 20:18 Justin mentions about how he founded a project called BootstrapCDN and how an influencer helped shoot the usage up in one night. 22:54 Richard wonders how Zeno chooses his projects and how does he plan to have projects live beyond him, in terms of Dracula, which is a theming project that has