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Slightly off topic: you see in the article one with a generic Engineering title (Egor) and one with fancy massive title CEO and Co-founder (Paul), while I’m alm

by AHOHA 3y ago

Slightly off topic: you see in the article one with a generic Engineering title (Egor) and one with fancy massive title CEO and Co-founder (Paul), while I’m almost certain that article and the work behind done by the engineering dude yet he’s not even given a proper title -at least of external marketing- while the other is piggybacking on that work. I saw that kind of behavior a lot especially in software companies, belittling, credit taking or sharing, etc., especially in small startups for some reason.

egorr 3y ago
Hey, co-author here, thanks for caring about me. This is me who added myself as an author to the blog, i feel like “engineering” is the best description for the work I do in Supabase :) You can find it in PR https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/14520 https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/14520 We have a flat culture and if you scroll through past posts, you see that it is the most common description for our team. As for the work behind, copple made significant edits and additions (as I thought of them) to my draft, so i decided add him as coauthor (just to make sure: I wasn’t asked by anyone and copple only noticed this after publication)
atonse 3y ago
I don't know kiwicopple (apart from following Supabase), but I'm about 99% sure he's a dev and has probably built a ton of the features in Supabase. With a highly technical product like Supabase, you don't get to be a founder that plays with spreadsheets all day while devs build the product. You have to roll up your sleeves and build it. In this particular situation, it simply doesn't fit whatever narrative you're weaving about some non-tech CEO taking the credit for the work done by a dev.
- kiwicopple 3y ago
  i'd spend a lot more time building if i had could! Egor deserves all the credit for this announcement, but it was kind of him to include me for the small part I played. i'll consider removing my title for future posts to avoid any misconceptions
  - atonse 3y ago
    As a technical Founder, I completely feel ya :) We have a joke in our company where I refer to the CEO-like tasks as "salad" and coding as "steak/dessert" – the salad is what keeps us healthy, sustainable, etc. But I'd love to have a lot more steak without affecting my "health". Even my director of operations flat out says "hey I need you to complete these salad tasks before you can enjoy your steak"

by AHOHA 3y ago

egorr 3y ago

Hey, co-author here, thanks for caring about me. This is me who added myself as an author to the blog, i feel like “engineering” is the best description for the work I do in Supabase :) You can find it in PR https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/14520 https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/14520 We have a flat culture and if you scroll through past posts, you see that it is the most common description for our team. As for the work behind, copple made significant edits and additions (as I thought of them) to my draft, so i decided add him as coauthor (just to make sure: I wasn’t asked by anyone and copple only noticed this after publication)

atonse 3y ago

I don't know kiwicopple (apart from following Supabase), but I'm about 99% sure he's a dev and has probably built a ton of the features in Supabase. With a highly technical product like Supabase, you don't get to be a founder that plays with spreadsheets all day while devs build the product. You have to roll up your sleeves and build it. In this particular situation, it simply doesn't fit whatever narrative you're weaving about some non-tech CEO taking the credit for the work done by a dev.

kiwicopple 3y ago
i'd spend a lot more time building if i had could! Egor deserves all the credit for this announcement, but it was kind of him to include me for the small part I played. i'll consider removing my title for future posts to avoid any misconceptions
- atonse 3y ago
  As a technical Founder, I completely feel ya :) We have a joke in our company where I refer to the CEO-like tasks as "salad" and coding as "steak/dessert" – the salad is what keeps us healthy, sustainable, etc. But I'd love to have a lot more steak without affecting my "health". Even my director of operations flat out says "hey I need you to complete these salad tasks before you can enjoy your steak"