E172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster
Apr 07, 2025•35 min
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Episode description
Aviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear, the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote environment. Their project, mirrord, has 4K stars on GitHub and is loved by users at companies like SentinelOne, Flexport, and Run.ai.
In this episode, we dig into:
How traditional staging environments create friction for cloud developers
Their unique approach that allows for concurrency - and educating the market on it
How open source helped build trust with big, enterprise customers early
The story behind their first big customer win
Focusing on a killer, fast time to value implementation
Introducing monetization early, and how their products align with open source mirrord
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