Our story
Eleven years, from a blog about entrepreneurs in Palo Alto to the editor newsrooms publish with every day.
2015
The idea
An idea in Palo Alto
On a business trip for ZEEF, Frido stays at a hackers' house in Palo Alto and interviews entrepreneurs in the valley for a blog. He wants to show their careers as timelines, and finds no simple tool to build one.
A first version, called Career Path
Frido joins the Startupbootcamp e-commerce program as entrepreneur in residence. In his free time he tests his assumptions and builds the first version: Career Path.
The first timeline sold
Career Path sells its first timeline. The name changes to Timepath, for a larger audience: publishers, businesses, education and consumers. There's no money yet to hire developers.
2019 – 2020
Building it
Building the platform
Work starts on the version of Timepath that newsrooms use today.
Live in beta
After five years of building and validating, Timepath goes live in beta on Friday 27 March 2020.
The first version of Timepath, March 2020. The first timeline
Hugo Noorlander makes the first timeline on Timepath, about the designer Dieter Rams.
2021 – 2023
Newsrooms start publishing
News sites across Africa
A news publisher starts building and embedding timelines on its websites across Africa.
A review of the year
On the last day of the year, a national Dutch news site publishes its review of 2021 as a Timepath timeline.
Dutch dailies follow
National newspapers publish their first timelines: two years of corona in the Netherlands, and sixty years of gas extraction in Groningen.
Broadway in a timeline
For the 75th Tony Awards, an American theatre magazine publishes a timeline of the awards' history.
Liveblog, our second product
Newsrooms cover events as they happen, in a liveblog embedded in the article.
The first AI feature
Journalists can research events with AI and add them to a timeline.
A canon of Flanders
A Flemish newspaper publishes the events, people and culture that shaped Flanders as one timeline.
One of the largest Dutch dailies
One of the largest newspapers in the Netherlands starts telling its stories with Timepath timelines.
2023 – 2026
From one product to ten
Collection started in 2023 as the Widget. From 2024 a new product joined the editor every few months, until it held ten, in four groups.
Ten products, as the suite grew
The year work began on each product, to today
- Timeline2019, Storytelling & Context
- Liveblog2022, Storytelling & Context
- Collection2023, Storytelling & Context
- Quiz2024, Interact & Learn
- Poll2024, Interact & Learn
- Survey2025, Interact & Learn
- Data Story2025, Visualize & Explore
- Social Story2026, Community & Social
- GeoStory2026, Visualize & Explore
- Voices2026, Community & Social
Ten products
With Voices, the suite counts ten products: Storytelling & Context, Interact & Learn, Community & Social, and Visualize & Explore.
A football liveblog, in early access
A liveblog for football matches: search a club, check both squads and import them.
