S11 E11: Dave Berner, Kinde

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dave Berner grew up in London, and got into coding through music. He used to be the lead singer in metal and hardcore bands. His bands couldn't afford a webmaster, so he learned how to code in order to launch his band's website, along with setting up friend's custom MySpace profiles. Beyond that, he partook in many startups and side projects, loving to build on the internet. Outside of tech, he's married with 3 kids. He mentions his family is a "low tech" family, teaching their kids fundamental education without a screen. The live in Australia, in a sleepy surfer town, though he admits he hasn't learned to surf just yet.

Dave has always been building side hustles, but none of them really got off the ground. What he noticed about the process was that the process of building the infra of an app - the auth, the billing, support, etc. - always took too long. Eventually, he thought that maybe the best product would be something combining these things.

This is the creation story of Kinde.

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0:00.0	Guys, I've got something cool to tell you about.
0:02.5	As an engineering leader, a manager, and an engineer myself, I'm geeking out over a new product I'm just discovering that helps me with each of these points of view.
0:11.0	The great team at SEMA, builders of the SEMA intelligence platform, have been working on what they call the product roadmap radar.
0:19.0	It's this integrated solution that uses generative AI to observe
0:22.2	your code and Jira in order to summarize, synthesize, and make it easier to deliver your roadmap.
0:28.2	It not only helps keep your roadmap on track, but it helps reduce the time engineers spend in
0:33.2	meetings. Cue all the engineers clapping. The product roadmap radar is extremely easy to set up.
0:40.3	This only takes about five minutes, just enable your integrations and let AI do all the mapping
0:44.8	for you.
0:45.9	My favorite part?
0:46.9	I'm glad you asked.
0:47.9	The radar doesn't just tell you about your roadmap.
0:50.5	It suggests changes you need to make, based on the code that's been written and the stories that have been addressed.
0:56.0	No commenting, no special setup, all generative AI.
1:00.0	It gives you an outside view of your roadmap based on the code and projects a target completion date based on outstanding work and activity.
1:08.0	Again, no comments, no special setup.
1:10.0	It even detects shadow work when
1:12.3	development is being done but Jura isn't being updated. I'm pretty jazzed about it, and I think
1:17.1	you will be too. Take a second to watch a short but awesome demo video. Go to codestory.com
1:23.6	slash PRR to watch it today. You'll like what you see.
1:29.6	This episode is sponsored by Postman. Postman is the world's leading API platform,
1:35.3	trusted by 98% of the Fortune 500 and over 40 million developers. Tap into APIs from 18,000-plus
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