Chris Bell is the founder of Knock.app - flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure. In this episode we discuss: Designing APIsThe importance of champions when selling to enterpriseHow do you justify cost of a developer tool?Selling to platform teams Links: Knock https://knock.app/Twitter https://twitter.com/cjbell_

Jason Bosco is the founder of Typesense. Typesense is the Open Source alternative to Algolia. Typesense is a batteries-included Search API. We discuss how Jason built Typesense to be a hugely successful company without VC funding. We talk about what revenue-funding means and why it should be considered as a viable option for founders. This episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On...

An interview with Igor Zalutski & Utpal Nadiger from Digger.dev. Digger is an Open Source Infrastructure as Code management tool that helps orchestrate Terraform and OpenTofu within your CI/CD system. We talk about: What changed since Jack worked with DiggerHow they pivoted four times to find PMFHow do you know you have somethingOpenTofu & ThePrimeagenThis episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise...

Dana Oshiro is a General Partner at Heavybit. Heavybit is a VC that invests exclusively in developer-first startups. What we discuss: One sharp thing. Finding an addressable chunk of a bigger opportunity. Thinking big & smallAre 5 people seriously going to support our migration from DataDog? At Facebook you had a lot of support people/systems you're forgettingFinding the sidedoorStepping up as a founderFear of hitting up the people you respect.Best founders build for themselvesDo founders...

Alex Bouchard is the cofounder of Hookdeck. Hookdeck is an event gateway for asynchronous applications. What we discuss:- What is Hookdeck?- Category vs pivot- Gartner categories Links:- Alex: https://twitter.com/AlexBouchardd- Hookdeck https://hookdeck.com/ This episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.

Glauber Costa is the founder of Turso - a fully managed SQLite database platform. Glauber shares how to make great CLIs, the story of Turso's pivot. Their pricing. And the importance of moving fast. Links: Turso - https://turso.tech/Glauber's Twitter - https://twitter.com/glcstThis episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.

Anders Borum shares how he created the number 1 git app in the app store - Working Copy. What we talk about: The origins of Working CopyWord of mouth vs App Store OptimisationOne time vs recurring subscriptionLinks: Anders - https://twitter.com/palminWorking Copy - https://workingcopy.app/Rauno https://twitter.com/OvalSoftware This episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit...

Zeno Rocha is the founder of Resend. Zeno is also the founder of React Email. Resend is a simple-to-use email API built for developers. Previously Zeno was the VP of DX at WorkOS and the creator of the popular Dracula VS Code theme as well as the popular open source project Clipboard js.  This episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. What we talk about Building...

Stefan Avram recently tweeted that "You shouldn't have devrels. Your customers should be your devrels" So I invited Stefan on to debate this with one of the industry's most respected DevRels Dan Moore from Fusion Auth. This is episode is sponsored by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.Links: Stefan's tweet https://twitter.com/StefanTMD/status/1735022106822295920Dan Moore...

Michael is the founder of WorkOS. WorkOS helps startups cross the enterprise chasm - it's a bit like the Stripe of Enterprise features. In this episode, we focus on selling to enterprises: the features you need, the team you need (e.g. sales!) and the common pitfalls Michael has seen. We also talk about things like: what even is an enterprise customer? This episode is sponsored by WorkOS. Thanks so much for supporting us as our first ever sponsor Michael and WorkOS. If you're thinking about...

Flo Merian is a developer marketer who has run successful Product Hunt launches for numerous developer tools. Flo is also a maintainer of the Developer Marketing community and curates LaunchWeek.dev Flo is a Product Marketer at Clerk - a user management tool  Links: https://twitter.com/fmerianhttps://marketingto.dev/https://launchweek.dev/https://github.com/fmerian/awesome-product-hunt

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/-...

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-...

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...

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/ivanburazinDaytona - https://www.daytona.io/

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. 

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/

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/

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...