We should chat! I'm the founder of roadie.io. I don't see an email on your profile but feel free to reach out at david@roadie.io or via linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtuite/

Oh totally missed adding my email in the bio. updated that now. hello@shoehorn.dev anyways I will send you an email.

This is exactly why we created https://roadie.io I'm the founder.

My company - roadie.io - offers SaaS Backstage. We're the second largest contributor after Spotify and we're co-hosting the first ever BackstageCon at KubeCon NA this year.

Get in touch if you ever want to discuss Backstage. Email in bio.

FWIW, it would be great if you had a breakdown of the TCO. The price is at a point where many orgs would have some suit decide "we have a DevOps guy, we'll just run Backstage ourselves and save $27K/yr". I think it's worth the money but you need to show the suits where that money is going, what kind of value they're getting from having you run it, and consider the risks (what if it gets compromised, goes down, etc). Also, I don't see SSO mentioned; you really want to mention that, it's pretty important for enterprise.

Thanks for the feedback and fwiw I completely agree. We can do much better in this area. We're a team of engineers so we struggle with marketing and copy.

SSO is supported on all plans by default.

No pricing on your page? Are you “contact our sales team” expensive?

? There is transparent pricing from 50 up to 150 developers: roadie.io/pricing/ It's linked directly in the header.

For deals bigger than 150 devs, we have found customers prefer to talk to sales.

FYI: the link to the pricing page doesn't appear in your mobile menu

Wow you're right. That's a bug. Thank you!

Roadie (roadie.io) | Backend engineer | Full-time | Remote in EU timezones | https://careers.roadie.io/o/software-engineer-platform

Roadie is a VC-backed DevTools startup based in Europe. We are building a SaaS version of the popular open-source project backstage.io. Backstage is a service catalog and developer portal created by Spotify.

Our engineering team is small but strong. Mostly senior ex-Workday and Spotify. We have raised multiple-millions of dollars from US VCs and have customers despite being founded only 9 months ago.

Email me (Founder & CEO) if you have questions. david@roadie.io

You can hack the embed blocks to get basic analytics: https://apption.co/apps/2

I'm working on an open source chat bot for Helm. https://github.com/larderdev/kubewise

It posts a message in your team chat when someone installs, upgrades or uninstalls a Helm chart from your Kubernetes cluster.

It's the first code I've written in a long time and I'm really enjoying it.

Who looks after your kids in the morning while you are awake and the kids are awake?

Seems you must have an amenable partner?

They love to sleep. We need about 1 hour break in the morning to help them prepare for school. My partner teached me to wake up early.

Depends on how old they are. At 4+ they're fine to be on their own a bit with you near by.

Hacking growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Browne?

Just want to check I'm buying the right book!

Yep.

Oh, and if you're interested in the subject, I can also recommend "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares, it's a really neat outline of traction channels.

I also really enjoyed Traction. It provides a good framework on testing to identify the channel that provides the results needed at the stage your business is at. It also goes drives home the concept that the channel that gets you to one stage of growth might not be the one that gets you to the next stage.

book recommendations on topics with lots of noise competition are really helpful, thanks

I read Traction and Hacking Growth. Traction is a great book, HG is uninspiring - too repetitive and generally is about setting up growth hacking team in your company with emphasis on "developers are important they should contribute to the growth hacking"

Traction is a really interesting overview of all sorts of channels

I think it's the idea that if you price your software too low then it's value will be perceived as low. You then have customers paying a low price for a low (perceived) value product and you're into a death spiral.

How do you go from DB Admin to Director of Technology in 2 years!? That's pretty impressive.

Thank you. It was a mix on working on impactful stuff https://github.com/blog/1880-making-mysql-better-at-github, making an effort to work on more general issues like availability, having a culture that allowed me to be ambitious, and solid mentorship from our CTO.

One thought is the title Director is everywhere nowadays. Not to take anything away from this guy but it could be 2+ rungs below CTO. Probably just 1 though.