Going 0-to-1 as a US-India dev tool startup

This episode is an in-depth discussion of going 0-to-1 as a US-India dev tool startup. We cover everything from how to identify market gaps, ways to think about dev tools MVPs, leveraging the India developer market to build global products, comparing various GTM channels like Hacker News, GitHub, Reddit, LinkedIn & open-source communities, learnings from shuttling between the US and India and finally, harnessing the power of open-source.

Joining me for this discussion is Pranay Prateek, co-founder of SigNoz, an open-source observability platform that is native to OpenTelemetry and provides logs, traces, and metrics in a single pane of glass. He has been a developer in the past, worked in product roles in companies like Microsoft, and is a champion of open-source. 

TIME STAMPS:

(00:47) Introduction to Observability

(04:50) Identifying market gaps in dev tools

(07:43) Leveraging the India developer market to build global dev tools

(12:44) Acquiring the first set of US design partners as a US-India dev tool startup

(17:34) Scoping out dev tools MVPs

(28:36) GTM models for open-source dev tool startups

(41:34) Learnings from shuttling between the US and India as a dev tools founder

(49:41) Is YC relevant and helpful for US-India dev tool founders?

(54:48) Harnessing the power of open-source in a dev tools startup

Connect with Pranay - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranay01/ and follow him on X - @pranay01

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