Why Developer Communities Are Broken (And How One Founder Is Fixing Them) ft. Arpan Garg from Commudle | Ep.28

Why Developer Communities Are Broken (And How One Founder Is Fixing Them) ft. Arpan Garg from Commudle | Ep.28

January 31, 2026 · 33 min · Episode 28

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Arpan Garg discusses the fragmentation in developer communities and how his platform Commudle aims to solve these issues.

What happens when developer communities are scattered across a dozen different platforms? In this episode, we sit down with Arpan Garg, founder of Commudle, who's on a mission to solve one of the biggest headaches in developer relations: fragmentation. From watching Extreme Machines as a kid to speaking at Google I/O, Arpan's journey is anything but typical. After facing rejection as an electronics engineer, he became the sole developer at a healthcare startup, then dove deep into the Google Developer Group community—where he discovered a massive problem. The issue? DevRel teams are drowning in chaos. Events on Meetup. Conversations on Discord. Content scattered everywhere. The result? Lost data, zero insights, and communities that never reach their full potential. Arpan's solution? Commudle—a centralized platform that brings together events, content, hackathons, and developer profiles into one ecosystem. But here's what makes it different: it's not just another community management tool. It's built around the individual developer, giving them a portable identity that showcases their skills and journey across the ecosystem. In this conversation, we explore: Why traditional…

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Hosts: Anthony Prakash, Riddhi Gore

Guest: Arpan Garg

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Organizations: Commudle, Google, Google Developer Group

Places: New Delhi

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