Founder Chats - Vadim Dedov

Today, we are dropping another episode in our "chats" series, specifically on the Founder side, - hearing from those scaling the companies themselves. In this episode, we are talking with Vadim Dedov, CEO at Catchers. Vadim is going to walk us through what problem he wanted to solve with Catchers, and how his product development journey took him through architectural decisions, product optimization, team building and more. Questions Before we talk about Catchers, I’d love to understand you a bit better. What experiences or responsibilities earlier in your life shaped how you think about work, systems, and accountability today? What problem were you dealing with before Catchers existed? Not as a product idea yet, but as a real operational pain you kept running into. At what point did you realise this couldn’t be solved with people, spreadsheets, or manual coordination anymore and that technology was the only way forward? How did Catchers actually start taking shape as a product? What was the very first version you built, and what did “good enough” mean in a business where mistakes affect people’s income and compliance? How long did it take to get to something usable, and what constraints defined your MVP? Looking back, what were the most important trade-offs you made early on? Things you consciously postponed or simplified, knowing they might come back later. Let’s zoom in on the product itself. What is the core product insight behind Catchers — the thing you believe differentiates it from a typical HR or staffing platform? How did your thinking about architecture evolve as scale increased? Was there a moment when you had to stop moving fast and redesign parts of the system properly? How did you approach building your core team around such a complex, operations-heavy product? What qualities mattered most in the people you trusted with this system? Can you share a decision that didn’t go as planned and how you and your team dealt with the consequences? When you step back and look at what you’ve built today, what are you most proud of not in terms of features, but in terms of reliability, impact, or how the system holds under pressure? As you look ahead, how do automation and AI change the way you think about workforce platforms — and what advice would you give to someone building infrastructure-heavy products today? Sponsors Unblocked (https://getunblocked.com/codestory) TECH Domains (https://get.tech/codestory) Mezmo (https://mezmo.com/codestory) Braingrid.ai (https://braingrid.link/code-story) Links https://catchersjob.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadim-dedov-060b8935a/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Our Sponsors: