Scaling DevTools

Logan Kilpatrick shares how DeepMind's organizational changes helped their resurgance in AI. What needs to happen to reach 100m developers. And why the next six months are more exciting than ever. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: Google DeepMind...

Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale - a cloud database provider. Sam shares: - Why dropping the free tier was one of PlanetScale's best decisions. But is not for every startup. - People solving serious problems appreciate serious content and if you can create meaningful content, that's a big advantage. - CEOs should be transparent and collaborative but assertive. Don't let your company die while...

Sam Bhagwat is the CEO of Mastra - a typescript AI agents framework. Sam is also the cofounder of Gatsby, the popular React framework that was acquired by Netlfiy. Sam shares what he learned building Gatsby and how they're applying those lessons to Mastra. Why they're building in TypeScript, not Python. Why 20% of their users are in Japan. And why they're distributing 1,500 physical books per week...

This is the first time I'm turning the mic around. This is the story of StreamPot. A DevTool I launched about a year ago. It was just acquired by ittybit so I thought I'd bring ittybit's founder Paul on to basically interview me about what went right and what went wrong. Hopefully you enjoy learning a bit more about the guy usually asking the questions. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . I...

Paul Copplestone is the CEO of Supabase, the Postgres development platform. He talks about the discipline needed to cross the enterprise chasm without isolating your original community. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: - Paul's LinkedIn - Paul's...

Quinn Favret is the founder of Tavus. They do AI video research and products. They saved a Scaling DevTools episodes with their lipsync feature. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. https://workos.com/ Links: - Tavus - Tavus lipsync API - Quinn Favret - Sca...

Andrew Filev is the founder of Zencoder. Zencoder is building AI coding agents. In this episode, we explore the evolution from simple code completion AI to more sophisticated software engineering agents. While tools like GitHub Copilot revolutionized code suggestions, the next frontier involves AI agents that can handle complex engineering tasks and collaborate with each other through emerging pro...

In this episode we talk about Wordware, programming with LLMs, and what it now means to be a developer. Robert and Filip explain how they're building tools that let non-engineers create AI workflows, why the definition of 'developer' is changing in the AI era, and their vision for background agents that automate your work while you focus on creative tasks. Links: - Wordware   - Wordware Sauna Wait...

Tony Holdstock-Brown is the CEO and founder of Inngest, a tool to run AI and backend workflows at scale. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: - Inngest - Tony's (inactive) LinkedIn - Traction book   Note: the studio lost video footage about 20 minut...

Utpal Nadiger is the cofounder of Digger.dev. Digger built a popular open source IaC orchestration tool. Their new product Infrabase is an AI DevOps agent that scans IaC code in your pull requests. We talk about SF, resiliency and pivoting. Links: Utpal   Digger   Tavus (lipsync) This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help yo...

Steve Ruiz is the founder of tldraw - a whiteboard SDK / infinite canvas SDK. We talk creativity, taste and obsession. And marketing to developers. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: Steve Ruiz tldraw  

Luke Harries leads growth at ElevenLabs. ElevenLabs builds incredible AI voice models. Luke dives into why launches matter so much, the origin story of ElevenLabs and why a hackathon can change your life. Links: Luke Harries   ElevenLabs     This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single S...

Elston Baretto is the founder of Tiiny.host - the simplest place to put your work online. In this episode we talk about how Elston has been able to grow Tiiny to 70,000+ sign ups per month with content marketing. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:...

Eric Allam is the cofounder of Trigger.dev. Trigger gives you open source background jobs. We talk about how Trigger iterated different versions until landing on something developers really want. And now the growth is crazy. And also, I use Trigger and it's genuinely a great product. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can hel...

Kyle is the cofounder of Depot.  Depot accelerates your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Kyle shares how Depot were able to grow to $1M ARR and beyond with a very lean team. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: Depot   Kyle Galbrait...

This episode is a deep dive into DevTools marketing with Jason Lengstorf, founder of CodeTV. Links: Jason on X CodeTV Jason's YouTube This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. 

This episode is with Sunil Pai. He works at Cloudflare after his startup PartyKit was acquired. Previously he was on the React core team at Meta. He's a great guy. And obsessed with AI agents. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links: - Sunil Pai on X -...

Thomas Paul Mann is the cofounder of Raycast. I use Raycast every day as a replacement for Spotlight. For me, shortcuts are the most useful feature. I put curl requests I commonly use as well as random things like email snippets. It's a massive time saver and really well built. Raycast is a genuinely well built product so Thomas talks quality, getting feedback and how they ship features.  We also...

Russ D’Sa is the founder of LiveKit. They are an open source tool for real time audio and video for LLM applications and they power the voice chat for ChatGPT and Character AI. We discuss: - How lightning works (using ChatGPT/LiveKit) - How LiveKit started working with OpenAI - Why Russ turned down an early 20m acquisition offer - What it’s like to work with the fastest growing company (ever?) - H...

Pete Hamilton and Chris Evans are cofounders of Incident.io. Incident is an incident management tool.  We discuss: How they think about brand and how it comes from their deep understanding of incident culture Lawrence’s article asking for new macbooks that went viral Gallows humor in incidents  Why incident.io started on Heroku despite being an incident response platform—and why “shipping fast” ma...

David Cramer, co-founder of Sentry talks M&As and why they should be utilized more when you don’t achieve huge success. Plus we talk about the importance of good branding. We discuss: The biggest mistake small startup founders make by not exploring potential acquisitions. The role of ego in startups Product-market-fit Hiring entrepreneurial talent and why acqui-hiring is so big. The significan...

Ramon, creator of Raylib, joins us to discuss his journey from building an educational tool to establishing one of the most popular open-source game engines. As of February 2025, Raylib is the second most popular open-source game engine behind Godot, boasting 25,000 GitHub stars, 13,000 Discord community members, and over 8,000 subreddit members. Ramon has transitioned from lecturing and consultin...

Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas from Temporal join us to discuss how their durable execution platform ensures processes complete reliably at scale. We discuss: How Temporal gained enterprise adoption with companies like Airbnb, HashiCorp, and Snapchat. Why Temporal compensates salespeople based on customer consumption. Temporal’s role in Snapchat’s story processing and Taco Bell’s Taco Tuesday scalab...

Nikita Shamgunov is the founder of Neon, an open-source serverless Postgres company. Before Neon, Nikita co-founded MemSQL, now SingleStore, which is valued at over a billion dollars. He has also worked as a VC at Khosla Ventures and held engineering roles at Meta and Microsoft. Nikita is known for his strategic thinking and transparency about his decision-making process. We discuss: The importanc...

 David Placek from Lexicon - the man who named Vercel and Azure - explains the importance of selecting a name that goes beyond simply describing what a product does. He shares what you can do to come up with a great name.  We cover: Common Naming Pitfalls: Discusses why names that merely describe a product or service fail to capture imagination and differentiation. The Strategic Impact of a Name:...