Meet Rich

Sometimes, it's hard to know where to find me. Even for myself. So here's an up-to-date list of some of my creative efforts and content productions.

If you are looking for contact info, check out richstone.io/about

TL;DR 🥱

#developer #apis #integrations #blogger #codingcoach #ex-live-pokerplayer #ex-numismat #ex-gamer #visualthinker #code-cartoons #twolefthands #bro #emojis

First things first

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🛠 Building your BusinessOS API platform at ClickFunnels. (having tons of fun building and seeing entrepreneurs making more money and doing useful things with our API ecosystem)

👨🏻‍🏫 Helping 100 developreneurs and indie hackers to get the first users for their product by building marketing-first.

--> funnelsonrails.com tutorial

🕹️ Building an open-source SaaS app on Bullet Train and the ClickFunnels API to show you how to build your app marketing first and delegate the user management to a 3rd party BusinessOS API.

--> app.funnelsonrails.com

📜 Auto-generate the perfect OpenAPI schema for Rails web APIs projects.

--> Maybe it's a Claude Code sub-agent or a new gem?

It looks like a lot, but I'm chipping at them bit by bit and many of them are highly intertwined, so don't worry about me. 😅

Talks

Most notable since 2023:

https://www.rubyevents.org/profiles/rich-steinmetz

Writing and Visualizing ✍️ 🎨

🎉 The source of truth of my content is richstone.io/blog, you are already here 🎉

Outstanding:

Trending in JavaScript Reddit: How To Start Understanding JavaScript

Upvoted on StackOverflow: What does the map method do?

Trending in Ruby Reddit: First Step To Start Learning Ruby or Ruby Open Source Projects
Guest blog on HubSpot: You Guide to Data Migrations and Synchronizations
My first "published" sketchnote on Sam Julien's blog

Past tech blogs:

My ancient German poker blog from my times as a low stakes poker-pro kid:

JeJo exploits Berlin

Podcasts 🎙️

I co-hosted the Curious Coders Chronicles with Bouwe.io to interview ourselves and the industry's curious minds about all the incredible things that are going on in the software engineering industry.

Curious Coders Chronicles 📺

Appearances on other podcasts:

Smart Testing Practices at Code with Jason (and other episodes; I stopped counting 😅)
Testing APIs and Loggers at Ruby Rogues (2023) and Ruby Dev Summit Community Chat (2024)
APIs You Won't Hate - Clickfunnels and Rails APIs with Rich Steinmetz (2025)

Meetups and Events 🏟️

I'm was organizing a local meetup in Barcelona for people to chat about Ruby, Rails, getting unstuck in their projects, and preparing themselves for their overall tech challenges which I handed over to the amazing organizers at Tripledot Studios in 2024:

Barcelona.rb

Active in Communities 👯

In early 2024 I started an experiment of a Rails communities that is based on real interaction. So I think by now, my preferred way of community is building together and meeting every now and then to speak in real life.

Still, sometimes I'm reading or posting here:

ClickFunnels Facebook and their native community.
Reddit: r/ruby, r/rubyonrails, and r/clickfunnels.
X and LinkedIn.

Where is Waldo?

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But I also sometimes look into my social accounts:

Ruby is truly the coolest badass language ever, no doubt. This useful method with a very expressive name from Minitest is one of the many proofs. I‘ve never used or seen this in production, but I used it a few times to make my tests run in a specific order when debugging order… pic.twitter.com/LWCJCqoTEX
— Rich Steinmetz (@RichStoneIO) February 8, 2025