Differences between Neo4j and Memgraph?

If you're a startup founder raising money, highly recommend reading Pitch Anything by @orenklaff Pitching is a skill that can be learned and honed

Hard to justify building a devtool company that isn't open source The bottoms-up adoption and community building adds a tremendous amount top of funnel that converts to paid

Alphagozero, Dalle-2, ChatGPT Thinking how generative AI will change our daily lives over the next 5 years

I'd rather have 100 fanatical developers than 1,000 lukewarm developers

Different metric focus for SaaS vs Devtool startups in the early days SaaS: ARR (annual recurring revenue) or MRR (monthly) Devtool: NDR (net developer retention)

The pain of multi-join SQL queries Graphs can help!

Organizing an effective engineering team as separate, self-sufficient surgical teams Only one, maximum two, people get to hold the scalpel and write the critical code

Don't you hate it when you're forced to use a separate query language? What if you can query directly from your native programming language?

mobile phone + camera + music player => iPhone database + data pipelines + data streams => Zef

What if our current definition of life is too limited? What if the dark matter and dark energy out in the universe is "life" in some form beyond our imaginations?

Getting adoption for a new devtool is extremely difficult You have to provide a tool or service that is far superior to what a user can build in their own time

Software harnesses the power of computers to solve people's problems

When building a devtool startup, build a Technical Advisory Board 20-50 developers you speak to on a regular schedule to get product feedback

Palm pilot => Blackberry => iPhone Chatbots => ChatGPT => ? ChatGPT can be primed down the wrong path or give inconsistent answers, there needs to be one more jump that happens

How might ChatGPT feel like for business intelligence? Using it as a conversational user interface to access a real-time knowledge graph

The speed at which a new technology acquires new users foreshadows its paradigm shifting impact ChatGPT will transform how we access and interact with data

mobile phone + music player + camera => iPhone DB + data pipelines + data streams => Zef

Does your product currently provide more value than nothing? Then get it out to market!!

When building devtools, have to fight the urge for perfection and get a less than perfect product out there