Tessa Kriesel

Tessa Kriesel

I help founders build for developers

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  • Polywork
    PolyworkBuild your personal brand & make side income
    Sep 2022
  • Devocate Community
    Devocate CommunityDeveloper advocacy education & mentorship community
    Feb 2021
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    The Developer MindsetInsightful information & advice about how developers think
    Nov 2020
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 1st, 2019

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User interviews are lying to you

Not because developers lie to you.

Because they can't accurately report on what they actually do. Memory distorts. Social desirability bias kicks in. Nobody says "I was completely lost for the first 10 minutes" they say "the onboarding was a little confusing at first."

Roast our developer onboarding

We built a platform that helps dev tool founders identify what's broken in their developer onboarding.

So it would be a little embarrassing if ours was broken.

...which is exactly why I'm posting this.

How do you figure out why developers drop off?

Genuinely asking not rhetorical.

You ship. Developers sign up. Some activate. Most don't come back. And you're left with dashboards that tell you where they left but nothing about why.

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