Feb 23, 2023
We’re still zeroing in on product/market fit. But it’s hard not to play with the language we might use to express Skyramp’s value to developers. We think it’s got something to do with confidence. Building and testing cloud native apps is a public affair and there is still a lot of unfamiliar ground and uncertainty. We want to give developers the perfect inner dev loop and CI tool — a safe space in which to experiment so they’re confident as they build that what they’re building will work, as expected, in the wild.
At first, we thought of “Code Confidently.” Nithin, our Co-Founder and CEO, suggested we needed another verb. “Ship Code Confidently.” That’s what we’ve got so far. But then Jacob raised the point that “shipping” was more oriented to DevOps testing, and the real danger comes in the merge. Yeah, merging has all the risk. I mean, you can try to ignore it, but it might come back to bite you. So, “Merge Confidently” may capture what we’re trying to do.
Other phrases pop up in conversation like “Get a grip on functional drift in the wild.” Adam liked it but Nithin wasn’t sure. Does this speak to developers? Let’s test that.
I am certain a lot of our thinking and language will change over the next few months. But I also know what won’t change: our commitment to shift left microservices testing to make it easier to ensure that what’s being built will work in production.