One email a week with specific things you can use to grow your DevTool.
One email a week with specific things you can use to grow your DevTool.
This week I released the 120th episodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REnAe8itTVM and here are four lessons that really stood out and changed the way I think about DevTools startups: 1. Be an exper
Read →In December, Prismahttps://www.prisma.io/ - an ORM for Node.js and TypeScripthttps://github.com/prisma/prisma - had 3,300+ open issues. And Prisma acknowledged things weren't great with how they hand
Read →Is DevRel over? Is it more needed than ever? Or, is it somewhere in between? This week I interviewed "Danger" Keith Casey from Pangea. Previously at elite DevTools, Okta, ngrok and Twilio Keith wrot
Read →I love a good pivot story. This is how Bloophttps://bloop.ai/ pivoted to find a problem that companies are spending $100s-of-millions to solve. Bloop - YC and early customers ---------------------
Read →For the last couple months I've been doing Adam Frankl's Developer Facing Startup coursehttps://developerfacingstartup.dev/ with my own project: StreamPothttps://streampot.io/. It's a 12 week course
Read →When I worked as a salaried developer I didn't even check my inbox. It's hard to email developers. Angelohttps://x.com/ngeloxyz from Railway started experimenting with sales emailshttps://blog.r
Read →It's easy to copy. Copying is a shortcut. I do it all the time. But the trouble is, if we just copy, we are boring. And no one cares. This week's episode is with Greptilehttps://www.greptile.com/ f
Read →This week we have two episodes Black Friday deal woo! 1. Samuel Colvinhttps://x.com/samuel_colvin - the creator of Pydantichttps://pydantic.dev/ - the most popular data validation library for Pyth
Read →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 understan
Read →John O'Nolan is the founder of Ghost, a publishing platform that's grown to $7.2M+ in revenue while tearing up the startup playbook. John was once WordPress.org's VP of Design a voluntary role and h
Read →I just hit 100 episodes of Scaling DevTools. It feels symbolic for me because of this Mr Beast quote I read early on. "If you are just getting started on YouTube, do not expect to pull any type of
Read →One of the things I get asked a lot is "How do open source projects make money"? And this week I chatted with Vlad Matsiiakohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vmatsiiako from Infisical - an open source se
Read →This is my first newsletter for a while, hello! I just interviewed DevCycle - they made a huge pivot even though they had a big set of customers. What I admire most about them is that they are doin
Read →Josh Twist - the founder of Zuplohttps://zuplo.com/, an API Management tool aiming to give you a Stripe-like API experience out-the-box. The API Management tools space is pretty interesting, so this
Read →Last year I set a goal to "build non-time-dependent product amp hit $5k MRR" I finished on $0 MRR. To call it a f\\k up would be far too generous. A f\\k up requires you to actually leave the star
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