Scaling DevTools

Keith Casey aka Danger Casey is a Senior Product Manager at Pangea - a Security Platform as a Service. Before Pangea, Keith was Director of Product Marketing at ngrok and worked at Okta and Twilio in a variety of roles - including DevRel.  Keith also curates API Developer Weekly. In this episode we discuss Keith's writings on the future of DevRel. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you'...

Louis Knight-Webb is the CEO and co-founder of Bloop. Bloop helps with modernizing legacy software, particularly focusing on COBOL and mainframes. 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. Takeaways: - Mainframes and COBOL are still foundational in many industr...

Guy Podjarny is the founder of Tessl - a startup that is rethinking how we build software. Guy previously founded Snyk - a dependency scanning tool worth billions of dollars. Before Snyk, Guy founded Blaze, which he sold to Akamai. 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...

Tessa Kriesel is the founder of builtfor.dev, where she helps DevTools founders with GTM. In this episode we talk about how she helps founders improve their go to market strategy in a short sprint. Links: Built for Devs Tessa Kriesel   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...

We dig into the the build vs. buy dilemma for APIs, and the role of OpenAPI in effective documentation. 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. We explore how AI is transforming the landscape of APIs and developer tools, and discuss the future of coding. The...

Jake Cooper is the founder of Railway - an infrastructure platform that let's you build powerful infrastructure in a simple way. 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. In this episode we discuss: - Building a remote team with a flat structure - Railway's sal...

In this conversation, Daksh Gupta, the CEO of Greptile - an AI code understanding API - shares: Why it’s important to do unique types of marketing, like making an energy drink Why most people misunderstand sales How companies are buying AI tools and why it will probably change soon This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help...

Ankur Goyal is the founder of ​Braintrust​, a year old LLM eval platform that is already used by Figma, Vercel and Stripe and just raised $36m from a16z. It's a rocketship. 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. Key Success Factors - Started with a targeted...

​Samuel Colvin​ - the creator of ​Pydantic​ - the most popular data validation library for Python. Used by literally everyone (Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA, even the NSA). He shares the story behind his startup ​Logfire​ which just raised $12.5m from Sequoia. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise f...

There are more and more open source DevTools startups. I’ve interviewed dozens. But I am still confused about open source licenses. So I decided to ask questions to two people who actually understand them: my friends Eric and Matt - founders of open source background jobs tool Trigger.dev. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS ca...

John O'Nolan is the Founder and CEO of Ghost.org. Ghost is an open source blog & newsletter platform. We use them for the Scaling DevTools' blog . Note: this episode was recorded on 17th October 2024. We talk about: How to communicate the benefits of Open Source to non-developers How Ghost manages to align open source and money making John's thoughts on the Automattic/Wordpress drama Advantage...

Gonto (Martin Gontovnikas) was the 6th employee at Auth0 and helped them grow fast and sell for $6.5billion to Okta.  Now he is the founder of Hypergrowth Partners and helps DevTools grow fast. We discuss: What Auth0 did to become so valuable so fast What the best founders do (Guillermo Rauch) Different is better than better  People follow people not brands Why bleeding edge matters Resources Why...

Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running homebrew. John has previously worked at GitHub and Twilio and is a contributor to Homebrew. Mike has also worked at GitHub as well as being the project lead and longest running maintainer at Homebrew.  We dig into: How Homebrew can trace its origins to a pub in London How A...

Paul Klein is the founder and CEO of Browserbase - one of the fastest growing DevTools in 2024. Browserbase is a headless browser API focused on helping AI Agent startups. We dig into: Why browser automation? How Browserbase hit "VC-market-fit" Visionary is revisionist-history  Tips for hiring your friends Why buying a jacket is like buying a devtool Building an in-person DevTool in San Francisco...

In 2017, Rasmus Makwarth sold his previous APM (Application Performance Managment) startup Opbeat to Elastic for an undisclosed amount. Opbeat became Elastic APM, which became a big part of the Elastic Observability solution and Rasmus became Senior Director of Product Management - with a focus on Developer Experience. Today, Rasmus is the founder and CEO of Bucket.co - a feature flagging tool bui...

Shawn Wang (aka swyx) is the founder of smol.ai (AI news curation), and the cohost of Latent Space (popular AI Engineer podcast). Plus, Shawn started the AI Engineer movement with his essay Rise of the AI Engineer and organized two incredible AI engineer conferences in the past twelve months - AI Engineer World's Fair and AI Engineer Summit And Shawn has angel invested in DevTools like Airbyte , R...

Sagar is the CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy - an API tooling platform. We talk about the journey of Speakeasy. The challenges of startup life. How they developed the product and how they work with influencers in a surprising way. Building relationships with influencers can significantly enhance product development. Importance of listening to customers Fine line between product and consulting The...

In this conversation, Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render, discusses the evolution of Render as a cloud infrastructure platform is actually simple to use. He shares insights from his time at Stripe, emphasizing the importance of customer focus, crafting a seamless user experience, and the philosophy of progressive disclosure of complexity. Anurag also highlights the significance of customer sup...

This is our 100th episode!  And we're thrilled to welcome back fan favourite Ant Wilson - the cofounder and CTO of Supabase. They discuss the evolution of Supabase, the importance of open source, and effective marketing strategies.  Ant shares insights on community engagement, the significance of developer-centric branding, and the challenges of navigating the enterprise landscape.  We also touch...

Nick Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of InKeep. InKeep is an AI customer support tool focused on Developer Tools. They discuss the importance of understanding developer needs, the role of AI in technical support, and how community engagement can enhance support efforts. What we discuss AI support for developer tools is different from traditional B2B SaaS support. Developers often seek help through...

Adam Frankl has been VP at four Developer Tools unicorns, including JFrog, Neo4J and Sourcegraph. Adam is the author of the Developer Facing Startup and recently launched the Developer Facing Startup Founders Academy: a program that helps founders launch and grow their developer tools. In this conversation, Adam Frankl discusses the critical role of a Technical Advisory Board (TAB) in the success...

In this conversation, with Michael Grinich - founder and CEO of WorkOS. WorkOS helps you start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.  We discuss the challenges and strategies of navigating tough conversations in a startup environment, the importance of understanding engineering leadership, and the role of empathy in user experience.  The conversation covers the significanc...

In this episode, we're joined by returning guest Colin Sidoti - the cofounder and CEO of Clerk. Clerk is a comprehensive user management platform.  What we cover: - The origin story and South Park Commons - Clerk's dramatic growth since the first episode - what changed? What did they do right? - 7% growth per week - Tiny details that improve the developer experience - How to you know if a change i...

David is the CEO of Arcjet. Arcjet is a tool that helps developers protect their apps once they go into production. It offers Bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack protection, data redaction. David is also the creator of the console.dev newsletter and podcast. It's where thousands of developers discover developer tools.  In this episode we discuss how David thinks about creating c...

Vlad Matsiiako is the CEO and co-founder of Infisical. Infisical is an Open Source Secret Management tool. What we discuss: - The story of Infisical - How the team has made Infisical easy to adopt - How being open source helps you with trust at the beginning stages - How do enterprises adopt Infisical - How do developers at enterprises discover tools like Infisical - The different mini-games at va...