Narenda Wicaksono co-founded Dicoding with Kevin Kurniawan and Akbar Hidayat, and it launched in Bandung on 5 January 2015. About 500 developers joined soon after.
Wicaksono left a corporate career without a guaranteed income. He turned down a Southeast Asia developer-relations role that could have doubled or tripled his pay, and DailySocial invested in the company in March 2015.
In 2016 the creative-economy agency Bekraf made Dicoding an event partner, and it became a Google Developers Authorized Training Partner. In 2017 learners could pay through Bukalapak and Tokopedia. In 2018 Google and Dicoding ran 1,000 Picodiploma scholarships.
Between 2015 and 2018 Dicoding held 630 offline events. By early 2019 about 140,000 developers from 454 cities had joined.