Lu Wilson AKA todepond is one of the people behind tldraw, the infinite canvas for the internet. Lu also has a youtube channel, todepond. Lu also built the [hilarious] programming language dreamberd Lu is also a researcher with Ink & Switch - an independent research lab In this episode Lu shares how tldraw went viral again and again and again this year. My biggest takeaways were to share your whole process and default to visual communication. Links: - https://www.todepond.com/ - https://www....
Feb 29, 2024•31 min•Ep. 69
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 when building a tool for everyone Links: - Dennis' Twitter - https://twitter.com/dennispilarinos - B...
Feb 22, 2024•34 min•Ep. 68
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 the shift from awareness to scaling and improving developer experience amidst high demand and compute...
Feb 12, 2024•37 min•Ep. 67
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/
Feb 09, 2024•33 min•Ep. 66
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.
Jan 16, 2024•41 min•Ep. 65
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/
Jan 05, 2024•33 min•Ep. 64
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/
Nov 29, 2023•33 min•Ep. 63
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 solve a problem for an engineer. They co-founded Mirchi Fi with Mary and wrote their own tool. The rol...
Nov 12, 2023•31 min•Ep. 62
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 https://escape.tech/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=devtools-podcast Tris...
Sep 20, 2023•31 min•Ep. 61
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 users. 32:42 Links: - Zach's Twitter https://twitter.com/DitchingData - Zach's site https://www.zach...
Sep 10, 2023•37 min•Ep. 60
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 cool stuff without having to go through the pain of sending an email. Zapier for developers is another k...
Aug 29, 2023•41 min•Ep. 59
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 content. 2:42 The focus now has to be on marketing. The top of the funnel is when someone has no idea wh...
Aug 13, 2023•30 min•Ep. 58
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 something that resonated immediately. Different teams set this up differently. 8:23 What was the next step ...
Aug 03, 2023•42 min•Ep. 57
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 open source? 10:52 The bottom up strategy for adoption at GitHub. 15:22 Netlify’s Aha moment. 21:19 ...
Jul 28, 2023•33 min•Ep. 56
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 startup is to be really passionate about the project. Advice for founders who are building ambitious ...
Jul 13, 2023•28 min•Ep. 55
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 out of the box. The power of removing friction in creating a better experience. 8:58 The power of remo...
Jun 29, 2023•36 min•Ep. 54
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 forum pages. No one ever searches on Stack Overflow. What are some of the experiments that have gone we...
Jun 22, 2023•26 min•Ep. 53
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 Rerun - https://www.rerun.io/ Niko's Twitter - https://twitter.com/NikolausWest...
Jun 16, 2023•26 min•Ep. 52
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
Jun 08, 2023•32 min•Ep. 51
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 to resolution, MTTR What is Backstage and how has it been used? Improving the developer experience wi...
Jun 01, 2023•29 min•Ep. 50
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 simple interfaces. How do you test your library design? One of the best ways to test library design. Amaz...
May 25, 2023•29 min•Ep. 49
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? 0:00 Fred introduces himself and talks about astro. Fred explains what astro is and what it does. What’...
May 18, 2023•48 min•Ep. 48
Anh-Tho is the founder of Lago https://www.getlago.com/ Lago gives you open-source metering and usage-based billing
May 11, 2023•29 min•Ep. 47
Jamie Barton is a DevRel Engineer at Grafbase https://grafbase.com/ and the host of https://graphql.wtf/
May 04, 2023•27 min•Ep. 46
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 about your technical writer program? Links: SigNoz https://signoz.io/ Pranay's Twitter https://twitter...
Apr 20, 2023•29 min•Ep. 45
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 journalism to developer marketing The importance of developer marketing for early-stage companies and its role ...
Apr 11, 2023•34 min•Ep. 44
Rob Moore is the CTO and founder of Churnkey - a tool that reduces churn for you automatically. What we cover: - Developer documentation - How Rob buys tools - How Rob discovers tools - Go slow & build good things - How Churnkey works References: - Rob's twitter https://twitter.com/robmoo_re - Churnkey https://churnkey.co/ - Super docs super.so
Apr 06, 2023•25 min•Ep. 43
Ant is the founder of Supabase. Supabase is the open-source firebase alternative and has gone from zero to 47,000+ GitHub stars in a matter of years. What we cover: - Ant's Egyptologist dream - How the Launchpad book showed Ant that building a company is possible - Product Market Fit is always just a pivot away - How to talk about Supabase? - Differences between pre-PMF and post-PMF - How Supabase stay on top of and prioritise huge volumes of product feedback - How Supabase positions itself to h...
Mar 30, 2023•37 min•Ep. 42
Josh is a Navy Seal turned founder of Uffizzi. Uffizzi provides environments as a Service and works with open source projects like Backstage. Topics - Pivoting between ideas - Working with open source projects to improve products and build credibility Links: Uffizzi Josh's Twitter
Mar 28, 2023•31 min•Ep. 41
Paul Butler is the cofounder of Drifting in Space . They believe that browser-based applications can feel like magic if they’re built with the right tools. They make Jamsocket , a platform for building applications with session backends , and Plane , the open-source server that powers it. What we cover: - The power of in-person meetups - How to communicate complex problems - Deconstructing topics for developer content - Writing about trends e.g. GPU rendered UIs - Going after developers doing "s...
Mar 23, 2023•28 min•Ep. 40
