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Tony Holdstock-Brown & Dan Farrelly, Inngest Co-founders, on Embracing Feedback from Early Customers

2023/7/12
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Tony Holdstock-Brown: 从小学习编程,拥有丰富的软件开发经验,曾在医疗公司负责工程工作,期间积累了构建复杂工作流的经验,这促使他与Dan Farrelly共同创立Inngest。他认为开发者工具对系统正常运行时间和可靠性的要求很高,而近年来新兴技术的成熟为构建像Inngest这样的平台提供了可能。Inngest的目标是帮助开发者更轻松地构建复杂工作流,提高开发效率。他认为优先级排序和克服自身技能偏好是创业过程中的两大挑战,并分享了如何应对延迟满足感的问题。他还展望了Inngest未来的发展方向,希望Inngest能够成为运行后台工作流的事实标准解决方案,并提供更多功能,例如数据仓库和实时ETL。最后,他认为生成式AI为Inngest提供了新的机遇,可以帮助用户更高效地构建和管理后台任务。 Dan Farrelly: 拥有丰富的创业经验,曾在音乐行业和Buffer公司工作。他与Tony Holdstock-Brown在纽约的联合办公空间相遇,并共同创立了Inngest。他强调了客户满意度的重要性,并分享了早期客户反馈对Inngest发展方向的影响。他认为客户更关注解决问题,而不是产品内部的工作原理。他介绍了Inngest的目标用户和推广渠道,并分享了团队建设的经验,强调了招聘经验丰富的工程师的重要性。他还谈到了开发者工具对系统正常运行时间和可靠性的高要求,以及如何克服创业过程中的挑战。最后,他也认为生成式AI为Inngest提供了新的机遇,可以帮助用户更高效地构建和管理后台任务。

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Tony and Dan, the co-founders of Inngest, share their career paths and how they met in a New York co-working space. They discuss their initial collaboration style and how it has evolved as their team grew.
  • Tony's early coding experience and his move to the Bay Area
  • Dan's experience co-founding a live events company
  • How they met and started working together at Inngest
  • Their initial approach to work allocation and how it evolved over time

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CEO Tony Holdstock-Brown and CTO Dan Farrelly are the co-founders of Inngest, a startup that’s building a serverless, event-driven workflow platform to help developers create better apps with simpler, more intuitive tools.

The duo reflects on the engineering career paths that ultimately led them to meeting in a co-working space in New York City, plus hear what shifts in technology are setting the stage for Inngest, what surprising customer feedback is shaping the platform, and what opportunities lie ahead.

This episode is co-hosted by GGV investor Dan Cahana.