The Neon Show Hasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai Gopal
Data access for App development for startups and enterprise is very complex and has a lot of security concerns. It gets even worse when you plan to scale the product.
This has vastly changed since Hasura came into existence. Founded by the guest of our today’s episode, Tanmai Gopal, Hasura provides an open-source engine for developers to streamline data access in a secure and scalable way to make app developments easier.
Started in 2018, it has seen adoption from thousands of developers across fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 companies.
During the podcast, Tanmai shares with us how they ideated Hasura as an open-source engine, and when did they realize the right opportunity to monetize it by launching a commercial model.
Notes -
01:22 - Hasura in layman’s term
03:56 - Early childhood and graduating from IIT Madras
10:21 - “Until you build a product and take it to market, you actually don’t know anything.”
13:11 - Launching Hasura as an open-source engine; 2 Mn+ downloads in first year & 100 Mn+ downloads in the second year
14:34 - Changing perspective from being bootstrapped to raising VC funding
21:23 - Shifting from free open-source to a commercial model
25:38 - Milestone around Mission Critical Adoption
34:02 - GTM strategy - Free adoption followed by commercial conversion
38:50 - Hiring for the Non-dev team
41:33 - His advice to entrepreneurs building open-source products