Developing for Developers – Path to Fame, Money, and Happiness

As more people learn how to code, and as more developer platforms enable the creation of software applications, there’s a need for guidance, tools, and services that serve software engineers and technologists, a market segment that is slated to grow to nearly 100 million users by 2025.

What part will you play? How can you help underserved developers?

This talk is a call for technologists everywhere to consider creating developer-focused businesses, plus a plug on the advantages to building them on DigitalOcean.

Full video can be found here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tech_talks/developing-for-developers-path-to-fame-money-and-happiness

Transcript

3. Developing for developers - path to fame, money and happiness Raman Sharma, DigitalOcean @rasharm_
4. Why build a developer focused business?
5. More people are learning development skills than ever before
6. 100M 2025 2018 75% are under 35 50% self describe as “new to coding” < 40% have computer science degree 75% work for SMBs Students Programmers Analysts Researchers Gamers Engineers Designers Data Scientists Hobbyists Coders Animators Sys Admins Scientists Flowgrammers DevOps Marketers Global STEM education is driving explosive growth of next-generation developers and the SMB market. 2000 2012 5M Programmers 1M Engineers 35M Developers Source: developer surveys & company estimates 6 Next-generation developers Code is the second language.
7. Multiple Developer platforms enabling millions of apps every year. These apps need new services and capabilities.
8. Big players busy with enterprise IT. Room to serve underserved audience and simplify targeted “tasks”
9. 20% of the top cloud companies in the world are focused on developers Source: Forbes Cloud 100  https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#74e09d915f94
10. Why should YOU do it?
11. As developers you solve developer problems ALL the time Automation, cron jobs, tools shortcuts, how-to docs are all potentially useful to other developers You know developers because you ARE one
12. But.. They said... Along came... The list goes on... Source control is a solved problem Github AWS can do everything better DigitalOcean, Stripe, Twilio There is no money in it MongoDB
13. Why build a developer focused business on DigitalOcean?
14. 14 We are different - we exist for developers
15. Our promise Simplicity Service Scale
16. Simplicity with choice Developers of any skill. Apps of any scale. IaaS Cloud-native PaaS Control Convenience
17. “It costs me about half as much as Google Kubernetes Engine, and whenever I’ve gotten stuck and opened tickets, I’ve usually gotten responses back in under an hour.”  Chris Roebuck, Founder and CEO URLBOX  Screenshots as a service - Bootstrapped, profitable company - Automates website screenshots and provides as API
18. “As a founder and somebody that doesn't have a DevOps background, I didn't spend every morning of my life wearing a pager and doing XML sit-ups…what I wanted to do was ship an application to users so that we could begin iterating it.”  Jordan Husney, Co-Founder & CEO Parabol  Release products not DevOps reports - Remote meeting platform for Agile teams - During pandemic, turned post-its retrospectives to online
19. “DigitalOcean was very attractive because of its simplicity. The pieces in place just really make sense - stuff that you actually need. And none of the weird stuff from the other cloud providers. And obviously, DigitalOcean has a really good reputation in the developer community”  Dan Ni, Founder & CEO Scraperapi  Proxy API for Web Scraping - Bootstrapped, fast growing company - Provides scalable block-resistant API for web crawling
20. Thank you @rasharm_