Gina Trapani
Entrepreneur · Developer · Writer
Hello!
I'm @ginatrapani. I've been building software and companies for over two decades. I also like to write about technology, and how it makes our lives better (and worse).
Currently I'm a Managing Partner at Postlight, a digital product studio in New York City, where we build web platforms, apps, and other software products for our clients. Need help building something? Get in touch.
Before Postlight, I founded sites and services like Lifehacker (acquired by Univision), Makerbase (acquired by Fog Creek), and ThinkUp. My side projects include Todo.txt, an open source collection of text-based task list apps, and Narrow the Gap, a web site about the gender pay gap.
My writing has been published in The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Wired, among others. Profiles of my work have appeared in venues ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times. Once upon a time, Fast Company named me one of the Most Influential Women in Technology, and Wired magazine awarded me its prestigious Rave Award.
Some nice strangers also wrote a Wikipedia page about me. To get in touch, you can send me an email to my usual username at Gmail or tweet at me.
Thanks for stopping by.
Recently
November 2019
- Gave a talk at BigWP on how to spin up a WordPress-powered React App in one step. Here are my slides.
October 2019
- Worked with Slack on their new certification program and became a certified Slack Admin.
- Announced a new Tinysheet feature that's really nice for people who publish back-of-napkin calculations on the web: Embed Interactive Tinysheets on Any Web Page.
July 2019
- Published a love letter to my grandmother on my personal Medium account, When You Don’t Do Anything You Don’t Make Any Noise.
- Gave myself a pep talk by publishing Decisiveness is a Muscle on Medium.
June 2019
- Published the advice I would give a client around search engine optimization, Sensible SEO for Good Web Sites.
- Wrote a piece celebrating my new favorite television show, based on the life of Anne Lister, The World’s a Bit Gayer Thanks to Gentleman Jack.
May 2019
- Hosted a party at Postlight celebrating and launching 12 Projects in 6 Months from Postlight Labs.
- Published a simple framework for aligning the way you think about work: Think, Organize, Do.
April 2019
- Got to join Paul Ford on Postlight's podcast to Reflect on Gmail 15 Years Later.
March 2019
- Wrote up a major upgrade to Postlight’s WordPress + React Starter Kit, which includes a GraphQL-powered React frontend.
February 2019
- Business Insider included me on their list of Most Powerful LGBTQ People in Tech alongside heavy hitters like Tim Cook and Arlan Hamilton.
- Joined Leo Laporte, Matt Cutts, and Dwight Silverman on an episode of This Week in Tech.
- Helped release Postlight Labs' first micro project of 2019, Fyre Ipsum, a homage to the Fyre Festival pitch deck.
- Helped the team at Postlight open-source the Mercury Web Parser. It's now free for use in your software projects.
January 2019
- Published an article in Track Changes called Personal Finance Apps Should Be Way Better because they should.
- Fullstack Academy includes me on their list of 30 Female-Identifying Coders You Should Be Following on Twitter.