Usually the teams know what they need to build based on user feedback (which we get a lot of).
We don't have Product Managers, the developers are expected to be very product-focused and user-facing. After every launch week we ask them what they want to build and then they get to work.
Hi! Congratulations on the launch. I'm a big fan of what you folks are doing over there and I genuinely love your product.
Would love to keep in touch to see when the changes to this will happen. Also speaking as a ceo & founder, my natural inclination is to keep that culture going, small and avoid hiring a PM as long as possible. As I reflect on my operating time, I wonder if it was a mistake not to find the right Product Manager (sic) early so that they can be inoculated with the culture as we grow. My estimation is that the ramp time for this would be at least 6 months (a year?) to have that future product manager operate with the same founding ethos.
Lmk if you're open to chatting about it. I'm honestly super curious.
> wonder if it was a mistake not to find the right Product Manager (sic) early so that they can be inoculated with the culture as we grow.
That's an interesting thought. We do have some techies "acting" as PMs across the team, but i can see how we might one a dedicated person at some point.
always open to chatting to other founders - feel free to reach out.
Interesting. I've never worked in a completely tech-led company before, but it seems like a good approach. My philosophy on it has changed a little: I used to think PM should be embedded in technical teams writing tickets, à la Scrum Product Owners, but now I think things function better when the team writes its tickets, and the PM works at a more general level: features, direction, marketing, legal, regulatory, etc etc.
we hire very slowly: when we have a problem to solve and nobody is owning the problem in the current team, we write a job spec specifically for this role and hire someone.
At the moment we don't have any Rust jobs, but we always you can keep an eye on supabase.com/careers or follow us on twitter to keep updated
We don't have Product Managers, the developers are expected to be very product-focused and user-facing. After every launch week we ask them what they want to build and then they get to work.