What I Learned From My First 50 User Interviews as a Solo DevOps SaaS Founder

What I Learned From My First 50 User Interviews as a Solo DevOps SaaS Founder I have now done 50 user interviews for Step2Dev, a unified DevOps platform I am building solo. Here is everything I learned, including the things that surprised me. ## Interview Structure Each interview was 30 minutes. I asked 5 questions: Walk me through a typical deployment day What part of that day frustrates you most? How many tools do you have open when you deploy? What would need to be true for you to consolidate to fewer tools? If you could remove one step from your workflow entirely, what would it be? ## Finding 1: The Number of Tools Is Not the Problem Everyone expected me to ask about tool overload. But when I probed deeper, the problem was not having too many tools. It was the manual coordination between tools. Engineers were fine with Terraform. Fine with GitHub Actions. Fine with CloudWatch. They were not fine with manually connecting them at every step. ## Finding 2: New Project Setup Is Univers