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How To Start A Dev Tools Company with Nicolas Dessaigne | Startup School

2024/11/26
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Nicole Dessaigne分享了关于如何从零开始创建开发者工具公司的建议，涵盖了从团队和想法到市场营销和销售的方方面面。她强调了组建由开发者组成的团队的重要性，因为他们每天都在使用这些工具，能够更好地理解用户需求。在选择产品方向时，她建议关注那些对产品运行至关重要的工具（"运行时间"想法），而不是那些只是辅助开发过程的工具（"构建时间"想法）。她还强调了尽早与用户沟通、快速迭代的重要性，以及在产品达到一定成熟度之前避免过早招聘员工。在市场营销方面，她建议利用开源模式，并强调了文档和技术支持的重要性。她还建议创始人应该长期负责销售和营销工作，因为他们最了解产品和用户。

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Introduction to what a dev tool is and its importance in the software development process, featuring examples of successful dev tools like GitHub and PagerDuty.
  • Dev tools encompass a wide range of software used by developers for coding, testing, deploying, and more.
  • Successful dev tools like GitHub and PagerDuty have become integral to the tech industry.
  • Y Combinator has supported many dev tools and has seen two public companies emerge from this space.

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YC's Nicolas Dessaigne was the co-founder and CEO of @algolia, a Search API used by millions of developers to build great search experiences into their apps and websites. Today it powers over 1.75 trillion searches annually for 17,000+ customers worldwide.

In this episode of Startup School, @dessaigne shares his advice for founders building a dev tools company from the ground up— covering everything from team and idea to GTM and sales.