Scaling DevTools

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:...

Mitchell Hashimoto - famously the founder of HashiCorp (creators of Terraform, Vault etc.) joins the show to discuss his latest open-source project, Ghostty, a modern terminal emulator.  We discuss: Designing dev tools with a focus on human experience. Taking on large technical projects and breaking them down into achievable steps. Open source sustainability and the role of financial support. The...

Guillermo Rauch is the founder of Vercel. Vercel is a cloud infra platform so easy to use that it’s almost become a category: “I’m building the Vercel of X”. Vercel also recently launched v0 which is potentially the next evolution of web development - type what you want and it builds it and deploys it for you. He’s also the creator Next.js, socket.io and a ton of other open source tools and startu...

Jacob Eiting, CEO of RevenueCat, joins us to discuss mobile developers and how they're different, RevenueCat's recent acquisition of Dipsea - and how it helps them dogfood. We also go hard on content - something RevenueCat is great at. We also talk about charisma in founders (but don't worry neither of us said rizz) This was especially fun because I actually used RevenueCat way before I started th...

Taylor Otwell is the creator of the Laravel framework. Taylor has created numerous paid products that have generated millions, such as: Laravel Forge (server provisioning/management) Laravel Vapor (serverless Laravel hosting with AWS) Laravel Envoyer (zero downtime PHP deployments) Laravel Nova (Laravel admin panel) In this interview, Taylor shares why he is now building Laravel Cloud - an infrast...

In this episode, I pull out some of the key DevTools lessons I've learned in the last 120 interviews.  Including: The importance of deeply understanding the problem you're solving by talking to developers directly, as emphasized by Adam Frankl. Ant Wilson's advice on experimenting with different go-to-market strategies and channels rather than relying on conventional wisdom.  Zeno Rocha's emphasis...

Søren Bramer Schmidt, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joins us to discuss the journey of building one of the largest developer communities in DevTools.  Søren shares how Prisma's deliberate strategies have shaped its growth, feature prioritization, and the launch of new products like Prisma Postgres.  We also explore the challenges of managing a vast user base and how Prisma is adapting to shifts in...