Scaling DevTools

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...

Alan Shreve is the founder & CEO of ngrok.  ngrok is a simplified API-first ingress-as-a-service that adds connectivity, security, and observability to your apps in one line What we cover: Creating a simple experience for users. Designing for the 90% use case vs. the 10%. How did the idea for ngrok emerge? How the first iterations of the product came about. The internal struggle to create simp...

Fred Schott is the founder of Astro.build and the Astro technology company.  Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries. Snowpack is a lightning-fast frontend build tool, designed for the modern web.  Before this, Fred founded Snowpack  What is Astro and what is it doing?...

Anh-Tho is the founder of Lago https://www.getlago.com/  Lago gives you open-source metering and usage-based billing

Jamie Barton is a DevRel Engineer at Grafbase https://grafbase.com/ and the host of https://graphql.wtf/

Pranay Prateek is the founder of SigNoz - Open Source Observability with Traces, Logs and Metrics in a single pane. Topics covered: How SigNoz has grown to 12k stars How did you get started with the open source model?  And have there been any teething challenges.  Apart from growth, have there been any other benefits? What is the path to monetization (question from Utpal Nadiger )? Could you talk...

Adam DuVander is an expert in developer marketing and the author of two books: Developer Marketing Does Not Exist and Technical Content Strategy Decoded.   In this episode, we dive deep into the world of developer marketing, specifically focusing on early-stage companies building tools for developers and how to create engaging content for your audience. What we cover: Adam's journey from journalis...