Leland Takamine is Co-Founder & CEO of mobile.dev, the team behind open source mobile UI testing framework Maestro. The framework, which is a compelling new alternative to Appium or Espresso, has quickly grown to 2.6K stars and a community of >700 users.
The company has raised $3M from investors including Cowboy Ventures, Essence VC, and a number of high-profile angel investors.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of ease of use for getting open source adoption, how community feedback creates a product advantage, the challenges with timing open source adoption, learnings from growing a community, how to time a paid product & more!
Episode 63: Mobile.dev's New Mobile Testing Framework Maestro