Build In Public: ⭐️ Spotlight Edition ⭐️ (Edward Igushev, Co-Founder & CEO, TrueSource)

Hi everyone, welcome to the latest Spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. In this recurring Spotlight series, I invite and interview one new startup founder each round to unpack insights and actionable advice from their story that can be helpful in your own journey. 

In today’s edition, I wanted to feature Edward Igushev, co-founder and CEO at TrueSource.

I first came across TrueSource and the founders from a mutual friend. I jumped on a Zoom, saw the demo, and loved what they were building. As we know, the creator economy has allowed millions of indie builders and creators to spin up new businesses. One underrated category is data-centric businesses. (Think IMDb, Zillow or Crunchbase). This is where TrueSource shines as it allows people to rapidly build products using data sets (either on Google Sheets, Airtable or CSV files) and monetize.

As a fan of the emerging new no-code tools, I agreed to help them with their public Product Hunt launch today. Check it out here and go support them!

The founding team is super passionate about this space and I recently sat down with the co-founder and CEO Edward for an interview.

Here are the full notes from my interview with Edward:

EI: I’m Edward Igushev, Co-Founder & CEO of TrueSource. I worked at Google for 6.5 years working on a Machine Learning Platform and after at Glean (Enterprise Search Engine) working on various infrastructure projects and Enterprise Knowledge Graph.

EI: We’re building TrueSource - a no-code platform to build and launch intelligent data products and monetize them. We allow creators and businesses to build data-centric apps like Crunchbase or IMDb in 5 minutes. Think of it as Shopify or Substack for data. On top of that, TrueSource links data products to compound value for creators and their users.

EI: We were heads down building our product and talking to users and customers. We’re very excited that we’re at the point when we can provide access to the product to a broader audience to try it out.

EI: I have been always passionate about data. Building a no-code platform with the ability for creators and businesses to leverage each others’ data is our first step towards our vision to become the database of the world.

EI: TrueSource serves the most anyone (individual or business) who’s building data-centric applications starting from simple ones based on one table to sophisticated applications with multiple connected tables and various filters, search, nested pages, navigation and monetization like Crunchbase, IMDb or Zillow.

EI: Our key differentiating features, which no other no-code tools have are:

EI: Do not wait and go earlier on the journey.

EI: You can achieve and build way more than most people think. Give TrueSource a try and let me know if I was right or not!

EI: They can follow me personally on Twitter or LinkedIn. They can follow TrueSource on Twitter, LinkedIn or join our growing data-creator community on our Slack channel.

EI: As was mentioned before, today, we are “live” on Product Hunt. We would love your support, feedback, and comments. Come join the discussion here on Product Hunt.

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