Scaling DevTools

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...

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...