An omnibus of DevRel podcast episodes: Adam Christian & Jono Bacon
From a product launch to nuggets from the Voxgig archive.
This newsletter includes two podcast episodes, both rich resources for your devrel strategy, but also some entertaining listening - why shouldn’t work provide laughs too?!
Product launch - Runme.dev
I was lucky enough to get time with a very busy CEO recently - Adam Christian, CEO and co-founder of Stateful has a product launch coming up - Runme.dev. In our chat Adam describes the motivation for creating this product, and the many benefits it provides to developers who have experienced, shall we say, less than accurate documentation in the past! DevRel tooling in action. They launch next week and we wish them well.
Adam and I also explore the drivers and challenges in our respective entrepreneurial experiences too, and where devrel and community can inform product development. This is becoming a real trend that I’ve noticed in our podcasts, the growing appreciation for real and knowledgeable feedback from customers and how developers fulfilling the devrel role have the skills to interpret and transfer that feedback most effectively.
Listen to our full conversation here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast/adam-christian-co-founder-and-ceo-of-stateful-march-2023
From the archives - Public speaking, open source & more
In the middle of 2020 I shared this conversation with Jono Bacon. It was fun from start to finish, but that’s not to say there isn’t real wisdom and generous tips throughout the chat.
As devrel becomes more and more accepted and understood, I believe there are some that will hold themselves back from this rewarding and diverse role because of one thing: lack of confidence in their public speaking ability. Well, listen up. You are not alone and we all had to start somewhere. ….try being in a band playing a gig where band members outnumbered the audience….and the audience included a dog! (Jono tells it well!) Wear your less-than-perfect experiences as badges of honour, milestones along the way to becoming a confident event or conference speaker. Jono gives great practical advice in this episode, and his book on community building is a must read.
Listen to our full conversation here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast/jono-bacon-community-builder-guru-march-2023-repeat
Get speaking experience - join a meetup
On Wednesday March 29th, the next Dublin DevRel (virtual) meetup will take place. As sponsors, Voxgig is happy to promote this event as a place where both experienced and new voices can mingle and learn from each other. If you want to speak, reach out to me richard@voxgig.com or visit the meetup site to register and see for yourself what the event can offer. https://www.devrelmeetup.com/