Evil Martians

Dev Propulsion Labs

Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools, hosted by Victoria Melnikova. Victoria is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, working with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. She sits down face-to-face in San Francisco with founders behind companies like Cursor, Sentry, Supabase, Resend, CodeRabbit, WorkOS, Elixir, and PlanetScale to talk about what actually makes developer-focused businesses work. Dev Propulsion Labs is produced by Evil Martians, a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, A...

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Latest episode

May 12, 2026

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Episodes

Jono Bacon, former Director of Community at GitHub & Ubuntu, author of “People Powered” 02.04.2024

Your dev tool needs to harness the power of community — whether you’re building your own or connecting to larger forums. The new episode of the Dev Propulsion Labs podcast is packed with Jono Bacon ’s insights on building relationships with your audience: he has built over 300(!) open source communities, including GitHub and Ubuntu, and he still backs many of them on their continued path to sustai...

Alice Chen, CTO & Co-Founder at OpenContext 06.03.2024

We’re blasting off the third season of our podcast with a new host, Irina Nazarova , CEO at Evil Martians, and a new guest—Alice Chen, CTO & Co-Founder at OpenContext , a platform that drives clarity of context across the organization. Prior to co-founding OpenContext in 2021, Alice rose up in the ranks of massive companies like HP and Informatica. In our conversation, we dug into her strategi...

DHH: 20 years of Ruby on Rails and why one developer can build everything | Evil Martians podcast 21.12.2023

In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp and HEY, reflects on 20 years of building Rails, why he believes single developers with the right framework can build entire products, and how he's changed his mind on everything from TypeScript to overwork culture. He shares how Rails spawned Shopify, GitHub, and Airbnb, wha...

Hahnbee Lee - Co-Founder at Mintlify 20.12.2023

This week's guest is Hahnbee Lee , Co-Founder at Mintlify . Prior to founding Mintlify, Hahnbee co-founded pe•ple and worked as a software engineer at Duolingo. The best developer companies (think Stripe, Twilio, MongoDB) have effective and user-centric documentation at their backbone. Mintlify helps any company achieve the documentation they need effortlessly, so that they can focus on building w...

Miško Hevery - BuilderIO, Angular, Qwik 13.12.2023

As the CTO of Builder.io , Miško Hevery directs the technological prowess behind the platform's innovative projects including Qwik, a web framework for building instant loading apps and sites. Prior to this, Miško played a pivotal role in Google, not only pioneering Angular and AngularJS but also co-creating Karma. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools,...

Shanea Leven - CodeSee 06.12.2023

Shanea Leven is CEO and co-founder of CodeSee . CodeSee is a developer platform that helps developers master understanding codebases. CodeSee's mission is to build software better. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools , and create open source products. Host: Victoria Melnikova

Ivar Østhus - Unleash 30.11.2023

Ivar Østhus is the Co-founder and CTO at Unleash, an open-source feature management software for Enterprises. What started as a side gig in a basement in Norway, Ivar and his brother turned their SaaS into a full time business in early 2021. The tool allows teams to build features together, ship new features in small increments, and enables transparency within teams and stakeholders. Tooltips Evil...

Peer Richelsen - Cal.com 30.11.2023

This week we are featuring Peer Richelsen who is disrupting the scheduling space with the open-sourced Cal.com . Tooltips Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. https://evilmartians.com/

Monica Sarbu - Xata 30.11.2023

This week's guest is Monica Sarbu, Founder and CEO at Xata, a serverless database platform powered by PostgreSQL. Prior to that, she worked on an open-source monitoring solution called Packetbeat which was acquired by Elastic in 2015. She is also the co-founder of tupu.io , a non-profit initiative that offers free mentorship to women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups in the tech...

Nikita Shamgunov - Neon 30.11.2023

This week we are learning from Nikita Shamgunov, CEO at Neon and Partner at Khosla Ventures who previously co-founded MemSQL and scaled to ~40M ARR. Neon is fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. They separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage. Tooltips Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools...

Stefan Avram - WunderGraph 30.11.2023

This week we talk to Stefan Avram, Co-Founder and Head of Growth at Wundergraph, a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition. Tooltips Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. https://evilmartians.com/

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