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Scaling DevTools — 186 episodes
Nick and Zack from WorkOS @ AIE: building real-world AI tools & running conference workshops
What’s Working in DevTools Marketing Right Now? with Karl Hughes from Draft.dev
Charity Majors on AI, Observability, and the Future of Software
Jakub Czakon - founder of Developer Markepear and former CMO of Neptune.ai (acquired by OpenAI)
Matt Aitken from Trigger.dev @ AIE
Lawrence Jones from Incident.io @ AIE Europe: building an AI SRE
Finding your first 10 customers, with Andy Lee from DeepTrace
DatoCMS: bootstrapping to €6.5M ARR
Ahmad Sadeddin, founder of Corgea: you don't need to raise (much) to find PMF
Retool founder David Hsu: AI, future of DevTools & how Retool got their first customers
Louis from Vibe Kanban - 20,000 GitHub stars and walking away from 6-figure deals
The Roadmap to PMF (Jason Cohen's essay)
Product Market Fit - the only thing that matters
Christopher Burns - creator of c15t: the developer-first cookie banner
The Amazon Web Services origin story (part 1)
Adam Frankl returns to answer my TAB questions
Kyle Cheung from Greybeam - jumping over bathroom stalls.. as marketing
Matt Klein - cofounder of Bitdrift: meeting developers where they are and early days of AWS
“I met my cofounder while gaming” - CEO of Northflank, Will Stewart
DevRel is unbelievably back - with swyx
Growing Marimo's YouTube channel, with Vincent D. Warmerdam
How RevenueCat tore up the sales playbook, with Rik Haandrikman
Baseten CEO and co-founder Tuhin Srivastava on inference and feedback loops
When sales and product led growth meet, with Railway's Angelo Saraceno
Sales 101 with my ex-boss Guy Zerega (former Stack Overflow EVP)
How can you actually use AI in DevTools content? With Victor Coisne from Strapi
How PlanetScale write content, with Ben Dicken
Technical Advisory Boards - the most important action DevTools founders can take?
Running Events with Matt Carey from AI Demo Days
AI Tools for Enterprise - Chris and Matt from Ona
Better documentation with the Diátaxis Framework
Karan Vaidya, founder of Composio: MCP use cases & Elon retweets
Studying Lee Robinson, Cursor's new VP of Developer experience
Running hackathons, with Carter Rabasa from Langflow
Rita Kozlov from Cloudflare: competing with the hyperscalers
Matt Palmer on Replit's speedrun to $100M ARR
Logan Kilpatrick from Google DeepMind: Building for 100m developers
Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale: dropping the free tier was a great decision
Sam Bhagwat from Mastra: the Gatsby founder building an agents framework
I sold my DevTool. ft Paul Anthony Williams from ittybit
Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase - don't kill your channel
Quinn Favret from Tavus: AI video API that saved our episode
Andrew Filev, founder of Zencoder: AI Software Engineering agents
Wordware founders, Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler - non-engineers can build AI workflows
Tony Holdstock-Brown, CEO of Inngest: orchestration, traction and not using LinkedIn
Shipping 22 products to find the true product - Utpal from Digger.dev
Steve Ruiz, founder of tldraw - taste, creativity and obsession
Luke Harries from ElevenLabs - Maximize your launches
ChatGPT didn't kill SEO - Elston Baretto, founder of Tiiny.host
Eric from Trigger.dev - iterating to 50% MoM growth
Kyle Galbraith from Depot: how they hit $1M+ ARR with three people
DevTools Marketing with Jason Lengstorf
Sunil Pai on AI agents, Cloudflare and React
Raycast founder Thomas Paul Mann - quality, YC and AI
The startup behind ChatGPT voice - Russ d'Sa from LiveKit
Chris Evans & Pete Hamilton: Incident.io cofounders
David Cramer, founder of Sentry - why you should consider M&A
raylib founder Ramon Santamaria - #2 most popular open-source game-engine in the world
Temporal founders: Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev
Nikita Shamgunov - founder of Neon: storytelling, pricing and hiring execs
How to name your startup: David Placek - named Vercel, Azure & Blackberry
Mitchell Hashimoto: Ghostty, libghostty & chasing the human experience
Guillermo Rauch, founder of Vercel: Developer Experience, AI and v0
Jacob Eiting - CEO of RevenueCat: Extreme dogfooding
Taylor Otwell - founder of Laravel
Four tips for early stage DevTools
Søren Bramer Schmidt - founder & CEO of Prisma
The future of DevRel, with "Danger" Keith Casey
Louis Knight-Webb from Bloop.ai - the YC startup turning COBOL into Java
Guy Podjarny, Snyk and Tessl founder - The future of programming
Tessa Kriesel - the DevTools sprint
Sid Maestre from APIMatic: APIs build vs buy
Jake Cooper from Railway | Remote work/team culture, minority report sales and building data centers
Daksh Gupta from Greptile - do marketing differently
Ankur Goyal from Braintrust
The story of Pydantic and Logfire | Samuel Colvin
How not to do Open Source Licensing, with Trigger.dev founders Matt Aitken and Eric Allam
John O'Nolan, Founder of Ghost - the Open Source blogging tool making $7.2m ARR
Gonto - Auth0 Employee #6 shares developer marketing secrets
The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew
Paul Klein, CEO & Founder of Browserbase
Fundraising, exiting to Elastic and the future of Product Engineering | Rasmus Makwarth (CEO, Bucket)
Shawn Wang (swyx) - founder of smol.ai, Latent Space, AI Engineer, DX.tips
Sagar Batchu - co-founder of Speakeasy
Anurag Goel - founder of Render
Ant Wilson - Cofounder of Supabase (100th Episode!)
Customer support for DevTools, with Nick Gomez from InKeep
The Developer Tools playbook, with Adam Frankl - VP of 4 DevTools unicorns
Michael Grinich - founder & CEO of WorkOS
Clerk's Hockey Stick growth, with Colin Sidoti
David Mytton - Arcjet and console.dev
Vlad Matsiiako - cofounder of Infisical
Always be dogfooding, with Andrew Lisowski of devtools.fm
Investing in Open Source Startups with Robby (Amanda Robson)
Hamzah Chaudhary from Lightdash: bringing developer tools to Business Intelligence
Great documentation with Han Wang from Mintlify
Frontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers with Kate Holterhoff from RedMonk
Vivian Dufour - co-founder of Meterian - enterprise sales for startups
Ellen Chisa - Partner at Boldstart Ventures
Developer quick-start guides with Amit Jotwani
James Hawkins - co-founder & CEO of PostHog
Buying Developer Tools Companies with Greg and Matt from Polychrome
Bootstrapping Flagsmith to $3m ARR
Aaron Francis - how to make videos developers want to watch
What does your company brand promise? Dani Grant from Jam.dev
Designing APIs with Chris Bell from Knock.app
3 BILLION searches per month without VC funding - Jason Bosco from Typesense
Digger.dev - Pivoting four times, OpenTofu & ThePrimeagen
Dana Oshiro - General Partner at Heavybit
Alex Bouchard from Hookdeck. Competition is a good sign
Glauber Costa from Turso
Making mobile apps for developers, with Anders Borum - creator of the most popular git client, Working Copy
Why developers trust Resend, with Zeno Rocha
Startups don't need DevRel. A debate.
Getting Your first Enterprise Customers - Michael Grinich from WorkOS
How to launch on Product Hunt with Flo Merian
Make it real: Show the whole process - Lu Wilson from tldraw
Exiting to Apple - Dennis Pilarinos from Unblocked
OpenAI want to build the best developer product ever - OpenAI's first DevRel, Logan Kilpatrick
Scaling a developer conference to 5,000 attendees with Ivan Burazin of Daytona
Pivoting a million dollar startup - DevCycle (Jonathan Norris, Brad Van Vugt & Andrew MacLean)
Erik Bernhardsson from Modal Labs
The hard things about dev tools with Felix Magedanz from Hanko
A bootstrapper's story with Julien Danjou, founder of Mergify
From getting hacked to cybersecurity founders with Antoine Carossio and Tristan Kalos from Escape.tech
Developer copywriting mistakes to avoid, with Zach Goldie
Building a developer social network with Steve Krouse from Val Town
Dax from SST - content that has nothing to do with your tool can still convert
From mobile app to mobile developer tool with Gabriel Savit from Runway
Hire engineers who don't mind talking, with Brian Douglas from OpenSauced
Building ambitious developer tools with Ruben Fiszel from Windmill
Killing features with Josh Twist, founder of Zuplo
Forums vs Slack with Dan Moore from FusionAuth
Building computer vision tooling with Niko from Rerun
Developer onboarding with Kilian from Polypane
From VC to DevTools with Karl Clement, founder of CODEOWNERS
Great Developer Experience with ngrok founder Alan Shreve
How Fred Schott built two open source projects with 20,000+ GitHub stars
Top of Hacker News with Anh-Tho from Lago
Making developer videos with Jamie Barton, DevRel Engineer at Grafbase
How SigNoz grew to 12k GitHub stars with Pranay Prateek
Developer Marketing with Adam DuVander
Go slow & build good things, with Rob Moore from Churnkey
PMF is one pivot away with Ant Wilson from Supabase
Growing with open source projects - Josh Thurman from Uffizzi
Building in-person developer communities with Paul Butler from Drifting In Space
Developer marketplaces with Robin Warren, founder of Corrello & Blue Cat Reports
Demand Generation for DevTools - Dino Kukic from Hygraph
Where should Developer Advocacy sit? With Vera Tiago from OutSystems
Shomik Ghosh - office hours with a DevTools investor
Making DevTools more human with Carla Sofia Teixeira from Miro
Great DevRel Content is a process, not a project with Jason Lengstorf
Crossing the chasm with Shawn Wang (swyx)
The first 2,000 GitHub stars with Matija Šošić from Wasp
Giving developers what they want with Deepak Prabhakara
Playing the long game with Ed Freyfogle - founder of the OpenCage Geocoding API
Bootstrapping a SaaS boilerplate to $25k MRR with Kyle Gawley from Gravity
Building a brand with Ramiro Nuñez Dosio from Supabase
Product Led Growth with Thomas Peham & Julius Hemingway from Storyblok
Growing in a community - with Colin Sidoti, founder of Clerk.dev
DevRel from the ground up with Sean Falconer from SkyFlow
Developer Marketing at a startup with Zivit Katz from Zigi
Is Open Source the ultimate bottom-up growth strategy? With James Hawkins from PostHog
The importance of distribution with Brandon Gubitosa from Plural
Building tools for experienced developers with André Eriksson from Encore
Developer User Research extends your runway, with Ana Hevesi
What is good developer marketing? With Nimrod Kramer from Daily.dev
Critical path infra for developers with Megan Reynolds from Crane
Developer video for startups with Richard Moot from Square
Higher versus lower order thinking with Wesley Faulkner
Authentic Developer Education with Dylan Fox from AssemblyAI
Painkillers before vitamins with Juri Strumpflohner
B2C vs B2D - marketing to developers with Ronak Ganatra
Investing in community with SJ Morris
Marketing seeds that led to $5k MRR with Tiiny.host
Effective developer events & developer sponsorships with Kimmy Leslie
The four pillars of developer marketing with Kuba Czakon
Developer tool launches with Nico Botha
Solve problems - developer marketing with Julie Reboul
Three lessons from selling to developers
Experimental Marketing with Natwar Maheshwari
Content for developers with Karl Hughes
Bootstrapping DevTools with Michael Christofides
Early Stage DevRel with Brandon West
Developer Marketing Does Not Exist with Adam DuVander
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