Articles and insights about scaling DevTools.
PlanetScale is a cloud database provider. On 6th March 2024, PlanetScale faced trial-by-tech-Twitter for dropping their free tierhttps://planetscale.com/docs/plans/hobby-plan-deprecation-faq. Fast fo
Read more →All guests on my show fall into at least one of two categories: 1. People I already have some relationship with 2. People I’m genuinely interested in speaking to --- Category 1 – Relationship T
Read more →I just interviewed the founder of Mastrahttps://mastra.ai, Sam Bhagwathttps://x.com/calcsam/ – a TypeScript AI agents framework. Before Mastra, Sam was the founder of Gatsbyhttps://www.gatsbyjs.com
Read more →Note: this is mostly for me. I started using Mastrahttps://mastra.ai/ for some projects recently. It's a framework for working with agents. You don't need a framework. I've also played with agent
Read more →DevTools I've interviewed: - WorkOS3 - Enterprise features integration platform - Daytona4 - Open source development environment manager - Trigger.dev5 - Open source background jobs and workflows - B
Read more →There are more and more open source DevTools startups. I've interviewed dozens. But I am still confused about open source licenses. So I decided to ask questions to two people who actually understand
Read more →!I interviewed 100 DevTools founders and this is what I learnedhttps://bitreach.ghost.io/content/images/size/w2000/2024/10/michaeljack-2.png In the last two years, I've recorded 100 episodes of Scali
Read more →One of the things I get asked a lot is "How do open source projects make money"? This week I chatted with Vlad Matsiiako3 from Infisical - an open source secrets management tool. So I decided to delv
Read more →I host a small podcast that has had 70+ guests so far. This is my guide on how to 1 be on podcasts as a guest and 2 be a good guest from a host's perspective. One thing before I start: this is not a
Read more →At 8 years old I remember reading the SAS motto "Who Dares Wins" on the wall of my Scout hut. Almost 24 years later, I'm finally beginning to understand its significance. Fear rules my life. My achi
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Read more →For most founders, landing Fortune 500 customers like GrubHub, Warby Parker & RBC Royal Bank is the definition of success. Imagine then, telling these customers that you're deprecating your successfu
Read more →Traditional software engineers are now building AI applications. But the tools used for building CRUD apps may not work for reasons such as: - GPUs for training/inference - Libraries can be BIG - Lo
Read more →This talk3 from Shawn Wang aka swyx4 provides mental models on how to think about Developer Experience. I'm writing non-exhaustive notes for this talk so I can remember some of my favourite ideas but
Read more →!/content/images/size/w1200/2022/11/aaarrrrp.png I enjoyed this talk3, where Phil Leggetter shares a framework for a DevRel funnel. Below are some summarised notes of what I took from this talk. -
Read more →!/content/images/size/w1200/2022/10/awesome-ios.jpeg Here's how some code led to 60+ GitHub stars, 30+ retweets and 150 likes in 24 hours. ----------------------------------------------------------
Read more →!/content/images/size/w1200/2022/09/growth.png It was an unremarkable April evening as I jogged through a nondescript suburban neighbourhood. I was lost in thought. Nodding along to HAIM's Women in
Read more →!/content/images/size/w1200/2022/09/nimrod-min.png Nimrod Kramer3, CEO of Daily.dev4, was recently interviewed on the Scaling DevTools podcast5. In the interview, Nimrod shares his insights on devel
Read more →Overnight success is rare. Quite rare. Many variables must line up to become successful. It usually takes longer to gain traction with customers than anyone would like. Let's look at what may delay y
Read more →Below are five of my favourite examples of developer-focused companies creatively marketing to developers. Atom 1.0 from GitHub This video from GitHub3 might just be the Dollar Shave Club4 of the d
Read more →!Best Developer Marketing Podcastshttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1485579149621-3123dd979885?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDN8fHBvZGNhc3R8ZW58MHx8fHwxNjU4OTE5
Read more →!DevRel: What is it?https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1519677704001-6d410c3ef07e?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDI0fHxhZHZlcnR8ZW58MHx8fHwxNjUyNDU2ODk4&ixlib=rb-
Read more →From day one, Stripe has been adamant about ease of use. Its installation process is a breeze ' just copy and paste seven lines of code to get up and running. And its documentation is famously clear a
Read more →!Be Real: How Developer-Focused Startups Create Authentic Contenthttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1526374965328-7f61d4dc18c5?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDE2f
Read more →!How to do Dev Marketinghttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1560472354-b33ff0c44a43?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDEwfHxtYXJrZXRpbmd8ZW58MHx8fHwxNjQ4NTQzMDYz&ixli
Read more →Flatlogic !https://blog.scalingdevtools.com/content/images/2022/01/flatlogic-197b1b716e3776d7bcee0d4446a3f339a72371f357d349ca2ded532ca543d30a.png Flatlogic3 has \$10k MRR and was created by soft
Read more →!Software engineers - how to get their attentionhttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1580894908361-967195033215?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDR8fHNvZnR3YXJlJTIwZW
Read more →When I think about most of the DevTools I've bought, it's almost always learned about it through some combo of: - A cool tutorial or article - A friend or or community recommendation - Stumbling over
Read more →Landing pages are extremely important pieces of the marketing puzzle. A landing page is a one-page website that serves one purpose, and one purpose only, and that's to get visitors to follow through o
Read more →According to Stack Overflow3, more than half of developers now have influence in their company's buying process for tools, so it's absolutely essential you build a great experience for developers into
Read more →My name is Jack Bridger and I'm a software engineer, but that wasn't always the case. When I was at university in 2013, I founded Code at Uni. Code at Uni was as an indie business before I knew what
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