Teaching Web Development On How I Built It Podcast

Tessa Kriesel is a developer, community advocate, and educator. We get into our approaches to teaching, why it’s important, to give opportunities to underserved areas and groups. We also discuss our “aha” moments – that time where programming suddenly clicked for us.

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Updated on May 20, 2022

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How I Grew Signups 71% in 90 Days by Running GTM Like an Engineer

I didn't run more campaigns. I built the systems that let me do the work of a team. Here's how running GTM like an engineer grew signups 71%.

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By Tessa Kriesel

Jun 16, 2026

I Stopped Checking My Mentions Dashboard. Now an Agent Drafts the Replies.

How MentionDrop's MCP turned social listening from a dashboard I ignored into a revenue-driving to-do list my GTM agent builds every morning.

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By Tessa Kriesel

May 12, 2026

How I Deployed Hermes Agent on Railway with Telegram (And Every Gotcha I Hit Along the Way)

10 undocumented gotchas for deploying Hermes agent on Railway with Telegram—from the wrong gateway command to zombie MCP processes to the volume path that wipes your bot's memory on every deploy.