What makes Hasura the next big thing in Indian SaaS

It’s refreshing to track a new breed of India SaaS companies
focused on building tools for software developers and programmers
globally. While BrowserStack is on track to achieve $100 million
ARR soon, there’s Postman, and then, there’s Hasura.


This is what makes tracking India SaaS so fulfilling and
thrilling for storytellers like me. 


Unlike the past waves of IT outsourcing and the rise of India’s
e-commerce startups, the country’s SaaS ecosystem offers variety
and there are so many potential winners.


Hasura’s founders Tanmai Gopal and Rajoshi Ghosh combine their
passion for deep engineering with their ability to build great
products. Launched in 2017, Hasura already counts SoftBank
Robotics, one of Spain’s largest banks--BBVA, and several global
companies among its top customers.


Early in the journey, they made a bold pivot by killing the
cash-rich consulting business to build a product.


With Hasura, Tanmai and Rajoshi are also riding an early wave.


“It’s like when Mongo was starting and people were like,
well  this doesn’t make any sense, but you know, Mongo
became popular or when virtualization was happening and AWS was
happening, it was like the cloud doesn’t make any sense but it
happened,” Tanmai tells me in this podcast. 


“Hasura is in that kind of exciting but scary class of things
that it can be category creating. A product like Hasura has not
existed before. It is a weird product. It makes you hyper
productive, but it is a shift in architecture and that means that
when Hasura is everywhere, people will assume that it is the
right way to do things, but the journey to doing that is
obviously the most painful journey in the world.”


In this episode of SaaSBOOMi Podcast, Tanmai shares the
backstory, and how they are building Hasura, tool by tool. 


Listen to this podcast to learn more about how Hasura is helping
developers make sense of big data and preparing for a world where
programming will go mainstream in schools. This conversation also
offers insights into building a deep engineering startup and
catching a wave early on.