Navigating the Shift from Developer to Founder | Sunil Pai (PartyKit, Cloudflare, Meta)

Sunil Pai, Founder and CEO of PartyKit, joins us for our first episode of The Developer Health Show to discuss his journey from developer to founder. Sunil shares the importance of “getting the basics right”, the value of maintaining a good reputation, and the need to embrace discomfort and uncertainty.

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Show Notes
00:00 Welcome Sunil Pai, CEO and Founder of PartyKit
00:19 The Developer Health Show, produced by G2i.
00:55 Tell us about PartyKit!
02:03 The challenges of building collaborative apps
04:24 The interest in affordable, simple infrastructure
05:17 From an idea to a company
06:06 The ethos of PartyKit
07:11 The importance of friendships and relationships
08:15 “The future of the internet is multiplayer”
09:27 Finding a mission
10:16 Being a citizen of the internet
11:37 The value of being nice
12:50 Participating in Tech Twitter topics
13:46 Conferences and ZIRP
14:33 Online personas vs Real life personas
15:52 Take a walk, touch grass
16:46 Intentionality and online presence
18:39 Reputation is everything
19:51 Leaving teams on good terms
22:06 Reputation vs online popularity
23:53 Work/life balance as a founder
24:35 “Getting the stupid basics right”
27:02 Becoming comfortable with the unknown
28:36 Sleep as an opportunity for success
30:06 Cloudflare incident and resting the team
30:54 Supplements
33:03 Incremental progress for big results
33:06 Stop - Start - Continue segment
34:15 Worst case scenarios
34:39 Traveling
35:32 The simple things work
38:47 “Keep doing dumb things”
38:35 Sign off

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