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 episode and here are four lessons that really stood out and changed the way I think about DevTools startups: 1. Be an expert on the problem, not the solution (via Adam F
Read →In December, Prisma - an ORM for Node.js and TypeScript - had 3,300+ open issues. And Prisma acknowledged things weren't great with how they handled these issues: "we’ve faced challenges in governance
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 wrote
Read →I love a good pivot story. This is how Bloop pivoted to find a problem that companies are spending $100s-of-millions to solve. Bloop - YC and early customers Bloop was founded in January 2021 by Louis
Read →For the last couple months I've been doing Adam Frankl's Developer Facing Startup course with my own project: StreamPot. It's a 12 week course. Adam delivers content and then gives assignments. You al
Read →When I worked as a salaried developer I didn't even check my inbox. It's hard to email developers. Angelo from Railway started experimenting with sales emails: We got a 0.3% response rate for custome
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 Greptile founder Daksh Gupta. He cau
Read →This week we have two episodes (Black Friday deal woo!) Samuel Colvin - the creator of Pydantic - the most popular data validation library for Python. Used by basically everyone (Anthropic, OpenAI, M
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 understand
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 vie
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 Matsiiako from Infisical - an open source secrets management tool. So I decided to de
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 doing f
Read →Josh Twist - the founder of Zuplo, 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 week we're covering
Read →Last year I set a goal to "build non-time-dependent product & 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 starting b
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