I want to start a new series here on my blog: Developer interviews. In the last few years I had the pleasure of working with several good developers. People who created cool stuff. People who have achieved remarkable things. Programmers I look up to. Today I contacted some of them, asking if they’d like to give an interview.

I want to publish these interviews here. But I do not want to interview only “Superstars” or “The best of the best”, this is not the criterion. This is about good people in our field who have something interesting to tell. I want to tell the stories of people who deeply care about the craft, art and science of software development. And at the same time, stories of people like you and me. But maybe there will also be superstars on the list - who knows?

If the format works, I will contact more developers. I will also link all the interviews in this article.

• Reinhard Nowak, founder of LineMetrics, talks about starting a company in Austria, raising seed money and lessons learned.