Dev Propulsion Labs

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Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools. Hosts from the Evil Martians team interview prominent dev tools founders with the goal of sharing knowledge in the maturing developer tool and commercial open source industry.

  1. David Gomes of Cursor on why AI coding still takes practice and the future is unevenly distributed

    4일 전

    David Gomes of Cursor on why AI coding still takes practice and the future is unevenly distributed

    David Gomes, product engineer at Cursor, explains why the best engineers are fully adopting AI while half the world's developers haven't started. He also reveals why having a diverse team is more important than a business-focused one. Plus, David breaks down his career path and the differences between working in SF vs Europe. Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-david-gomes-cursor Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Links: Cursor: https://cursor.com David Gomes on X: https://x.com/davidgomes David's blog: https://davidgomes.com Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

    50분
  2. Monica Sarbu of Xata on relaunching the product, hiring a diverse team, and being remote-first

    1월 26일

    Monica Sarbu of Xata on relaunching the product, hiring a diverse team, and being remote-first

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Monica Sarbu, founder of Xata, explains why they shifted from targeting builders to serving enterprise teams with their Postgres modernization platform. She also shares why Xata is remote-first, how twice-yearly offsites help build culture, and why having a diverse team leads to better products.

    46분
  3. Piyush Agarwal of Reo.dev on why GTM starts with customer conversations

    1월 12일

    Piyush Agarwal of Reo.dev on why GTM starts with customer conversations

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Reo.dev co-founder Piyush Agarwal explains why go-to-market is still the hardest problem in developer tools and how companies can have millions of users and still not know their real customers. He also touches on why timing beats volume when selling to developers and how three months of customer interviews shaped Reo.dev. Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-piyush-agarwal-reo-dev Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools Links: Reo: https://reo.dev Piyush Agarwal on X: https://x.com/Piyush_nhs Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

    36분
  4. David Cramer of Sentry on never going upmarket

    2025. 12. 16.

    David Cramer of Sentry on never going upmarket

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, David Cramer, founder of Sentry, shares how he built a self-sufficient developer tool used by 4 million+ developers without partnerships or enterprise sales. He also explains why "20-year-olds should stop starting companies" and breaks down delegating CEO/CTO roles while maintaining influence.Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-david-cramer-sentry Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools Links: Sentry: https://sentry.io David Cramer on X: https://x.com/zeeg Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

    54분
  5. Abhi Aiyer of Mastra on raising from 120+ builders and the power of community

    2025. 12. 09.

    Abhi Aiyer of Mastra on raising from 120+ builders and the power of community

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Abhi Aiyer, CTO and co-founder of Mastra, talks about the power of community and explains why they raised their seed round from 120+ founders. He also gets into how making moves beats perfect execution and his hiring process. Lastly, Abhi shares why TypeScript is winning the AI war and how education became their secret weapon. Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-abhi-aiyer-mastra 00:00 Introduction and birthday celebration 00:49 TypeScript AI Conf and major announcements 02:53 Education as a pillar for framework adoption 04:30 Converting open source to paid customers 06:55 Optimizing onboarding and developer experience 08:45 Handling user feedback and criticism 09:51 Moving fast in the AI wave and the pressure of getting ahead of the curve 11:56 YC experience and the agents batch 15:19 Why TypeScript for AI agents 19:40 Why Mastra decided to do a coalition from builders (120+ people) 22:23 Building culture through friendships 25:25 The toughest part of being a founder and CTO 27:54 Working in an uncertain environment and planning a roadmap 31:49 The devtools community at SF 32:48 Advice for new builders 35:31 Hardest-earned founder lessons 38:30 The YC revelation: location and community matters 40:20 Mastra in five years 41:13 Warm fuzzies: first agent in 5 minutes 41:46 Getting started with Mastra Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Links: Mastra: https://mastra.ai Abhi Aiyer on X: https://x.com/abhiaiyer Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

    43분
  6. Michael Grinich of WorkOS on building invisible infrastructure that powers every AI company

    2025. 11. 19.

    Michael Grinich of WorkOS on building invisible infrastructure that powers every AI company

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, WorkOS founder Michael Grinich reveals why product always beats sales methodology in enterprise, how being the "plumbing" behind AI companies became his life's work, and why forcing yourself to talk to users is the only algorithm that burns out bad ideas. He shares why WorkOS built in stealth while talking to everyone, the moment he fired his entire marketing team, and how infrastructure companies survive by being better than all their customers combined. Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-michael-grinich-workos Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools Links: WorkOS: https://workos.com/ Michael Grinich on X: https://x.com/grinich Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en

    56분
  7. Ivan Burazin, Daytona on AI computers, $300K ARR sacrifice and racing competitors on a moving train

    2025. 11. 12.

    Ivan Burazin, Daytona on AI computers, $300K ARR sacrifice and racing competitors on a moving train

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin reveals why he walked away from $300K ARR to rebuild his company from scratch for the age of AI agents. He explains why agents will outnumber humans "to the power of ten," how Daytona creates composable computers that agents can spin up on demand, and what it means to race competitors while the entire market moves at breakneck speed. Ivan shares hard-won lessons from 16 years building cloud development environments, starting with Codeanywhere in 2009 - a decade before the market was ready. Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-ivan-burazin-daytona Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools Links: Daytona: https://www.daytona.io/ Ivan Burazin on X: https://x.com/ivanburazin Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en Evil Martians for devtools: https://evilmartians.com/devtools

    40분
  8. Paul Copplestone of Supabase on low ego teams, meme workshops, and building for the next generation

    2025. 11. 11.

    Paul Copplestone of Supabase on low ego teams, meme workshops, and building for the next generation

    In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone reveals why hiring ex-founders with beaten-down egos builds better products, how internal meme workshops became part of their culture, and why vibe coding isn't a bubble that will burst. He shares the accidental origin of Launch Weeks, explains why Supabase is building for a 30-year timeline, and breaks down how they scaled to 5 million developers across 40 countries with barely any meetings. Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-paul-copplestone-supabase Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools Links: Supabase: https://supabase.com Paul Copplestone on X: https://x.com/kiwicopple Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en Evil Martians for devtools: https://evilmartians.com/devtools

    48분
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Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools. Hosts from the Evil Martians team interview prominent dev tools founders with the goal of sharing knowledge in the maturing developer tool and commercial open source industry.

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    Evil Martians
  • 방송 연도
    2023년 - 2026년
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