Noah Labhart

When a late Friday afternoon deployment went haywire, he decided to leave his company and set out to build something to automatically discover dependencies on a network to prevent deployment outages.

This is the creation story of Overmind.

Let's dive into what you would consider the MVP for Overmind.

How long did it take you to build and what sort of tools were you using to bring it to life?

Maybe tell me about a decision or trade-off you had to make in building that early version.

It could be technical decisions, right?

And you kind of talked through a little bit of that at a high level, but maybe around approach and maybe feature limitation or technical debt acceptance, any of those things, and how you coped with those decisions.

Today's episode is brought to you by .Tech Domains.

And this one hits close to home.

Back in 2016, when I was building my own tech startup, I went on the hunt for that elusive .com.

Looked high, looked low, and guess what I found?

Nothing.

What I did find cost me an arm and a leg.

So I did what every founder does under pressure.

threw in extra letters, settled for the less than optimal name.

And here's what I wish someone had said to me back then.

Noah, you're building a tech startup.

Just get a .tech domain.

techstartup.techdomain.

It could not be more obvious.