Scaling DevTools

Anders Borum shares how he created the number 1 git app in the app store - Working Copy. What we talk about: The origins of Working Copy Word of mouth vs App Store Optimisation One time vs recurring subscription Links: Anders - https://twitter.com/palmin Working Copy - https://workingcopy.app/ Rauno https://twitter.com/OvalSoftware  This episode is sponsored by WorkOS . If you're thinking about se...

Zeno Rocha is the founder of Resend. Zeno is also the founder of React Email. Resend is a simple-to-use email API built for developers. Previously Zeno was the VP of DX at WorkOS and the creator of the popular Dracula VS Code theme as well as the popular open source project Clipboard js.  This episode is sponsored by WorkOS . If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can hel...

Stefan Avram recently tweeted that "You shouldn't have devrels. Your customers should be your devrels" So I invited Stefan on to debate this with one of the industry's most respected DevRels Dan Moore from Fusion Auth. This is episode is sponsored 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. Li...

Michael is the founder of WorkOS. WorkOS helps startups cross the enterprise chasm - it's a bit like the Stripe of Enterprise features. In this episode, we focus on selling to enterprises: the features you need, the team you need (e.g. sales!) and the common pitfalls Michael has seen. We also talk about things like: what even is an enterprise customer? This episode is sponsored by WorkOS . Thanks...

Flo Merian is a developer marketer who has run successful Product Hunt launches for numerous developer tools. Flo is also a maintainer of the Developer Marketing community and curates LaunchWeek.dev Flo is a Product Marketer at Clerk - a user management tool   Links: https://twitter.com/fmerian https://marketingto.dev/ https://launchweek.dev/ https://github.com/fmerian/awesome-product-hunt

Lu Wilson AKA todepond is one of the people behind tldraw, the infinite canvas for the internet. Lu also has a youtube channel, todepond. Lu also built the [hilarious] programming language dreamberd Lu is also a researcher with Ink & Switch - an independent research lab In this episode Lu shares how tldraw went viral again and again and again this year. My biggest takeaways were to share your...

Dennis Pilarinos is the founder of Unblocked. Unblocked allows lets you talk to your code base. Dennis previously founded Buddybuild - a CI/CD tool for mobile developers. In 2018, Buddybuild was acquired by Apple, and Dennis became a director in Development Technologies at Apple. Some topics we cover: - The story of Buddybuild and the Apple acquisition - Why did Apple buy Buddybuild? - Segmenting...

Guest: Logan Kilpatrick, member of OpenAI’s developer advocacy team, often described as OpenAI’s first DevRel. Highlights: Challenges and Growth: Logan discusses the evolution of developer engagement from GPT 3.5 to the explosive growth following ChatGPT's success. Initially faced with the challenge of generating developer interest, the release of ChatGPT marked a significant shift, highlighting t...

Ivan Burazin is the cofounder of Daytona What we cover: - Scaling a 5,000 attendee conference - How to drive change in big organizations - Top down vs bottoms up approaches to growth Daytona is an enterprise-grade GitHub Codespaces alternative for managing self-hosted, secure and standardized development environments. Ivan Burazin - https://twitter.com/ivanburazin Daytona - https://www.daytona.io/

DevCycle is a feature flag management tool. DevCycle was founded in 2014 originally as Taplytics (an A/B testing tool) by Jonathan Norris, Aaron Glazer, Andrew Norris and Cobi Druxeman, raising $7.8m. Despite creating a million dollar business, in 2022, they raised $5m and pivoted to DevCycle. In this episode, we cover their pivot and how they think about developer experience. 

Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of Modal Labs. Modal Labs is a tool to run generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and much more. Links: - https://twitter.com/bernhardsson - https://erikbern.com/ - https://modal.com/

Felix is the founder of Hanko. Hanko is the Open source auth and passkey infrastructure for developers. We talk about: - The challenges of pivoting - Layoffs - The intangible goal of developer love Check out Hanko: https://www.hanko.io/

Julien Danjou is the founder of Mergify - a tool that helps merge code safer and faster.  Summary (auto-generated): How do you split your time between work and marketing? 0:00 Julian splits 50% of his time between building the product and the other 50% doing marketing and bringing people to the product. Julian talks about mergerfi. Where do you start with product development? 1:23 The goal is to s...

Escape helps you Find and fix GraphQL security flaws at scale within your DevSecOps process Introduction to Tristan and Antoine. 0:00 How did they get started in cybersecurity? 4:35 How did you get your first few customers? 9:49 Challenges from a product and tech point of view. 13:57 Challenges of integration into the development process. 18:10 How to find the right team? 22:55 Links: Escape.tech...

Zach Goldie is a DevTools messaging consultant Ship code faster is an empty statement. 0:00 How do you position yourself against the competition? 1:56 The problem with free monitoring tools. 6:43 Explain why fast is a good thing. 11:44 Curse of knowledge and how to overcome it. 16:42 The problem with copy length and word count. 21:37 How do you know if a page is good? 27:05 Pitching self-serve to...

Steve Krouse is the founder of Val.town - a social website where you can write and run code. Introduction to Val. Town's vision 0:00 How long it took Github to make money on Steve Val Town is a social website where you can write and run javascript or typescript, run the code on servers, and see the results. Knocking down friction points 2:12 Val Town is making it so that programmers can create coo...

Dax Raad is building SST - an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. What Is SST? 0:00 The theory in January was to make content that has nothing to do with SST and still convert people. Dax validated the theory within the first hour. Dax tells us a little bit about SST, a framework for building applications on AWS, and how it works. The importance of marketing and cont...

Gabriel Savit is the founder and CEO of Runway - a tool to coordinate and automate mobile app releases. Introductions 0:00 Introduction to Gabe Underlying themes of runway mobile release management. What’s it like to work with mobile teams? 2:19 Challenges for mobile teams to keep tabs on. The third party ecosystem problem. The origin story of the team. The process of running a release was somethi...

Brian Douglas - or bdougie - is the founder of OpenSauced - an open source intelligence tool. Brian was previously Developer Experience Lead at Netlify and Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub Summary Every engineer is an advocate. 0:00 Joining GitHub with a 30/60/90 plan. 1:17 What was the goal when you joined Netlify? 3:16 How to get started with bootcamps. 7:53 What are the top projects in...

Ruben is the founder of Windmill https://www.windmill.dev/ which helps you turn scripts into workflows and UIs in minutes  Some of the things we talk about: Getting to the threshold of being useful. Speed is the key to success. The second mover advantage Getting early users of the product. Why infra is an interesting market for him. The challenges of being a solo founder. The recipe for a digital...

Josh Twist is the founder of Zuplo, an API gateway Introducing Josh Twist, the founder of Zuplo. 0:00 Zuplo vs Azure API management. How do you make this fit into the developer workflow? 3:06 How Zuplo fits into the development workflow. How to democratize API management and make it something every business wants to use. Best practices for implementing API key authentication. Stripe quality API ou...

Dan is head of DevRel at FusionAuth - Auth Built for Devs, by Devs FusionAuth’s journey from moderation to auth provider. Introduction to Dan Moore, head of DevRel at fusion. Fusion's journey Free to use for many users, but also a cloud offering. Synchronous communication vs asynchronous communication. Synchronous communication vs asynchronous communication. 10% of their traffic is coming from for...

Nikolaus West is the founder of Rerun.io - Visualize computer vision. What we discuss: Finding a problem to work on  What are some of the features that will be free and open source? What’s the difference between a commercial and a free service? The most important thing is that we’re building something that will be useful How to get into the minds of computer vision developers Why build in Rust Rer...

How do you do onboarding in a way developers actually like? Kilian is the founder of Polypane - The browser for ambitious web developers https://polypane.app/ Kilian's Twitter - https://twitter.com/kilianvalkhof

Karl Clement is the founder of https://codeowners.com/  CODEOWNERS is the single source of truth for code ownership. Summary Introducing Karl  Code ownership What are the types of people that are implementing code Code Ownership How to find and reach platform engineers. What are some of the key metrics that organisations are looking for to measure the value of their tooling? Dora metrics Mean time...