Great Developer Experience with ngrok founder Alan Shreve

Alan Shreve is the founder & CEO of ngrok. ngrok is a simplified API-first ingress-as-a-service that adds connectivity, security, and observability to your apps in one lineWhat we cover:Creating a simple experience for users.Designing for the 90% use case vs. the 10%.How did the idea for ngrok emerge?How the first iterations of the product came about.The internal struggle to create simple interfaces.How do you test your library design?One of the best ways to test library design.Amazon's one-click checkout.Chasing simplicity vs complexity in a complex system.Product processes to help chase simplicity.How does NGrok measure and track user growth?Time to value, kpi, time to value.Empowering developers to do their jobs.How does a hobbyist use case expand into a commercial use case?How do you think about the problems that ngrok solves?How do you get an application online with minimal configuration?What’s the takeaway for other developers or founders?Links:- ngrok: https://ngrok.com/- Alan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/inconshreveable- Thanks to Danger Casey https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware for organising this- swyx article https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime- Joel Spolsky talk https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/elegant-software-joel-spolsky