Darisi: Freshworks built its initial product in three months using Rails
Kiran Darisi · 4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran · Sep 13, 2025 · at 1:02:11
Kiran Darisi, founding team member at Freshworks and co-founder of Atomicwork, contrasts rapid application development with multi-year enterprise platform builds.
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“To give a comparison at Freshworks, when we released the product, we released in three months because we actually ditched Java. We put Ruby on Rails because it is easy to bake in and actually release that entire product in three months, right?”
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