Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 381 | Abhinav Asthana - Big Impact
Guest:
Abhinav Asthana talks with Dave Rael about vision, leading, value, patience, and using empathy to make something great
As a developer on a mission to simplify API development, Abhinav and his partners started Postman as a side-project in 2012. It has grown to become an industry standard API Development Environment. Postman has more than 5 million users worldwide and is used in every country and every industry sector. Growing from a simple REST client in 2012, Postman now helps developers do everything from design, testing, mocking to monitoring and publishing, in a real-time collaborative environment. Postman has offices in Bangalore, San Francisco and Austin.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Abhinav Asthana
- - Foundations and understanding what is happening beneath the surface
- - The success of Postman, marketing, great design,and product recognition
- - Turning a side project into a business and figuring out value points
- - The responsibilities of running a business, executing on a vision, programming as "the good stuff", and leadership
- - Abhinav on moving to San Francisco and seeing your software in action
- - The magnitude of Abhinav's experience and story
- - Abhinav's story of failure - deficiency of clarity
- - Abhinav on empathy and psychology
- - Abhinav's book recommendations
- - The things that have Abhinav most excited
- - Abhinav's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Abhinav
Resources:
- Postman
- Postman on Twitter
- cURL
- Segment from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, including Postman (at the 4-minute mark)
- Postman Collections
- The Three Virtues of Software Developers
- Postman Jetpacks
- Ankit Sobti
- Abhijit Kane
- How Postman went from a hobby on the Chrome webstore to a platform of 3 million users
Abhinav's book recommendation:
Abhinav's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be empathetic and listen
- Get context from a wide variety of sources
- Hold back and have patience on capturing value
