I’ve been on an incredible journey over the past two months having raw conversations with prominent dev tool founders. Finally, I’m excited to announce the new season of Dev Propulsion Labs, an Evil Martians podcast dedicated to building successful developer tools. By the end of

Recently, Martians from various fields have tried Midjourney: frontend and backend engineers, product designers, even colleagues who would otherwise never do so. The goal: completing one of our regular image creation tasks. Gleb Stroganov reports the tale.evilmartians.com/chronicles/mid…

You might have heard that scaling #WebSocket infrastructure is not an easy task. It was true–until recently. We built the open source real-time server, AnyCable, that deploys to Fly.io in one command (and configures itself), and the SDK for serverless JS/TS that allows you

We’ve got some phenomenal news: canfy, developer of a brand-new AI assistant, has been acquired by Playbook! We are proud to have contributed to this product as its early investor, and, of course, Martian engineers took part in its development. businesswire.com/news/home/2023…

If you're active in the developer tools space, you must have heard about Nikita | Scaling Postgres and his team at Neon - Serverless Postgres I'm thrilled to share the new episode of Dev Propulsion Labs podcast featuring Nikita: youtu.be/wLRnSH_gxCo?si… Not to spoil the episode too much, but I will share

Thanks to Svyatoslav Kryukov, #MartianMono has been added to the NERD FONTS library and is now available on programmingfonts.org!

How are companies *𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲* using AI? We surveyed 1500+ devs, builders, and business leaders to explore production use cases, the models, infrastructure, and tools people are using, and much more. Dig into the new report: retool.com/reports/state-…

50% of women in tech leave tech due to the toxic environment in the companies, research says 🤯 To battle the lack of diversity in tech, Monica Sarbu Monica 🦋 created Tupu mentorship, a non-profit mentorship program. As she built it out, she looked for a convenient relational

Every founder building for developers will inevitably consider this question: should their product be open sourced, and, if so—why? CEO Irina Nazarova shares a detailed list of experience-backed open source business strategies! evilmartians.com/chronicles/ext…

Freemium will demolish your revenue, be very careful with it.

Frontend can be about more than just code—we’re also the last bastion when helping our team defend against pesky design slip-ups! Frontend engineer ninoid shares 7 best design practices for frontend engineers. evilmartians.com/chronicles/car…

Are you dreaming of making a profit on #OpenSource? Join Irina Nazarova, CEO at Evil Martians at the Open Core Summit (OCS) on Dec 6-7 in #SFO (+virtual) to learn about successful and sustainable #commercialopensource companies. 👉 Save 50% with code FriendofLG opencoresummit.com

Starting a dev tool company? On a small team, UI design may fall on the technical founder. If you're a CTO, technical CEO, VP of Engineering, or any type of engineer, and you need an MVP for less—and with no designer—check this post from Roman Shamin! evilmartians.com/chronicles/pen…

“Have you heard a f*cking 4-year-old laugh, like right in your face, just recently? That is life affirming!” In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Ruby on Rails and the upcoming holiday season, please watch our interview with the one and only David Heinemeier Hansson DHH,

Missing Dev Propulsion Labs already? No worries, because Victoria Melnikova is still dropping knowledge. Check out her new article with experience-backed tips on successful fundraising/bootstrapping for developer tool founders. evilmartians.com/chronicles/how…

Can Recraft’s foundational model for graphic design swerve the AI controversy? tcrn.ch/422wSwB

It's out! Please check out my latest work on how to approach pricing for developer-facing products. evilmartians.com/chronicles/val…

H100 is overrated tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

Got really excited today about Midday (OSS + ERP/accounting, my favorite). However, just like their homepage says, it’s a thin layer. Thin is thin, even with an “Ask AI” button. Maybe with invoicing it will be worthwhile. Intuit QuickBooks and Found.com win for now.

Glory to the monolith! #rails #Ruby #rubyonrails Ruby on Rails