Last month I got an unsolicited email from Runops founder @andriosr. After receiving a follow-up email, I asked him to stop. Unfortunately, the emails keep coming. This is unethical and annoying. I have no relationship with this company and they must have extracted my email from a repo on GitHub. I get that you're a scrappy startup trying to growth hack into some traction, but spam is just spam. It's not that big of a deal, but this is the kind of behavior I expect from a shady company. As a small tech startup hoping to serve technical customers, I expect you to be better. One spam I'll ignore, two, I'll ask you to stop. Continuing after that is worth calling you out within the community that we share. On August 01, 2022 07:58, Andrios Robert <andrios@t****s.com> wrote:
Hi, saw you forked redis on Github and wanted to ask for a quick help.
I'm the founder of an open-source core tool for managing access to k8s, aws, databases, and others. I'm trying to learn from DevOps leaders on how different companies are solving this problem.
Who is the best person you know for me to talk about it?
Andrios.
I forked redis a long time ago, but I have nothing to do with dev ops, so I ignored this poorly targeted networking email. Another one came four days later: On August 04, 2022 08:56, Andrios Robert <andrios@t****s.com> wrote:
Hello, adding a bit more context: my name is Andrios, and I’m the founder of a fresh dev tool company backed by Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital. We help DevOps teams from high growth startups (EBANX, Dock) and public companies (Enjoei, RD Station) controlling prod and PII (sensitive data) access.
It seems like you have these challenges, and I was hoping you’d be able to help us out by sharing your personal feedback and insights on security for k8s, aws, and other cloud tools. Even a quick 10-minute phone conversation while you’re on-the-go (walking your dog, or getting your morning coffee, whichever is easiest for you..), would be much appreciated. Please let me know if possible to arrange, I’ll adjust according to your availability.
After this email I replied, asking Andrios to stop. Do not ever email me again.
They stopped for a couple weeks, but have since kept coming: On August 22, 2022 08:47, Andrios Robert <andrios@t****s.com> wrote:
Thought to share this Reddit thread where multiple companies talk about how they manage ad-hoc access to production databases:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/n6zigp/do_you_access_the_rails_console_in_production/
On 9/7/22 22:26, Andrios Robert wrote:
Hi, last ping on this.
It would help us a loooot if you could provide some insights as to how you deal with ad-hoc production access today:
Feel free to reply just with a number:
This is an urgent problem but we don't have time to work on it now.
This is a low priority problem for us at the moment.
We built an in-house solution to solve this.
This isn't a problem.
Thanks a lot!