Dev Propulsion Labs

by Evil Martians

Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about building successful developer tool companies. Hosts from the Evil Martians team interview prominent dev tools founders with the goal of sharing knowledge in the maturing developer tool and commercial open source industry.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 3

  • Jono Bacon, former Director of Community at GitHub & Ubuntu, author of “People Powered”

    Jono Bacon, former Director of Community at GitHub & Ubuntu, author of “People Powered”

    Your dev tool needs to harness the power of community — whether you’re building your own or connecting to larger forums. The new episode of the Dev Propulsion Labs podcast is packed with Jono Bacon’s insights on building relationships with your audience: he has built over 300(!) open source communities, including GitHub and Ubuntu, and he still backs many of them on their continued path to sustainability as part of the Community Leadership Core accelerator. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. The podcast is hosted by Irina Nazarova.

  • Alice Chen, CTO & Co-Founder at OpenContext

    Alice Chen, CTO & Co-Founder at OpenContext

    We’re blasting off the third season of our podcast with a new host, Irina Nazarova, CEO at Evil Martians, and a new guest—Alice Chen, CTO & Co-Founder at OpenContext, a platform that drives clarity of context across the organization. Prior to co-founding OpenContext in 2021, Alice rose up in the ranks of massive companies like HP and Informatica. In our conversation, we dug into her strategies to sell open source to enterprise giants—to help you accomplish your next big sell. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.

  • Season 2

  • David Heinemeier Hansson, DHH - Co-founder at Basecamp & HEY, Ruby on Rails Creator

    David Heinemeier Hansson, DHH - Co-founder at Basecamp & HEY, Ruby on Rails Creator

    David Heinemeier Hansson also known as DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder of Basecamp & HEY, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, investor in Danish startups, frequent podcast guest, and family man. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. The podcast is hosted by Victoria Melnikova

  • Hahnbee Lee - Co-Founder at Mintlify

    Hahnbee Lee - Co-Founder at Mintlify

    This week's guest is Hahnbee Lee, Co-Founder at Mintlify. Prior to founding Mintlify, Hahnbee co-founded pe•ple and worked as a software engineer at Duolingo. The best developer companies (think Stripe, Twilio, MongoDB) have effective and user-centric documentation at their backbone. Mintlify helps any company achieve the documentation they need effortlessly, so that they can focus on building what they do best. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. Podcast host is Victoria Melnikova

  • Miško Hevery - BuilderIO, Angular, Qwik

    Miško Hevery - BuilderIO, Angular, Qwik

    As the CTO of Builder.io, Miško Hevery directs the technological prowess behind the platform's innovative projects including Qwik, a web framework for building instant loading apps and sites. Prior to this, Miško played a pivotal role in Google, not only pioneering Angular and AngularJS but also co-creating Karma. Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products. Host: Victoria Melnikova