Dev Propulsion Labs

In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Reo.dev co-founder Piyush Agarwal explains why go-to-market is still the hardest problem in developer tools and how companies can have millions of users and still not know their real customers. He also touches on why timing beats volume when selling to developers and how three months of customer interviews shaped Reo.dev.
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Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-piyush-agarwal-reo-dev
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Reo: https://reo.dev
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In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, David Cramer, founder of Sentry, shares how he built a self-sufficient developer tool used by 4 million+ developers without partnerships or enterprise sales. He also explains why "20-year-olds should stop starting companies" and breaks down delegating CEO/CTO roles while maintaining influence.Follow us on X: https://x.com/dpl_pod
Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-david-cramer-sentry
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Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools
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Sentry: https://sentry.io
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In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Abhi Aiyer, CTO and co-founder of Mastra, talks about the power of community and explains why they raised their seed round from 120+ founders. He also gets into how making moves beats perfect execution and his hiring process. Lastly, Abhi shares why TypeScript is winning the AI war and how education became their secret weapon.
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Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-abhi-aiyer-mastra
00:00 Introduction and birthday celebration
00:49 TypeScript AI Conf and major announcements
02:53 Education as a pillar for framework adoption
04:30 Converting open source to paid customers
06:55 Optimizing onboarding and developer experience
08:45 Handling user feedback and criticism
09:51 Moving fast in the AI wave and the pressure of getting ahead of the curve
11:56 YC experience and the agents batch
15:19 Why TypeScript for AI agents
19:40 Why Mastra decided to do a coalition from builders (120+ people)
22:23 Building culture through friendships
25:25 The toughest part of being a founder and CTO
27:54 Working in an uncertain environment and planning a roadmap
31:49 The devtools community at SF
32:48 Advice for new builders
35:31 Hardest-earned founder lessons
38:30 The YC revelation: location and community matters
40:20 Mastra in five years
41:13 Warm fuzzies: first agent in 5 minutes
41:46 Getting started with Mastra
Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools
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In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, WorkOS founder Michael Grinich reveals why product always beats sales methodology in enterprise, how being the "plumbing" behind AI companies became his life's work, and why forcing yourself to talk to users is the only algorithm that burns out bad ideas. He shares why WorkOS built in stealth while talking to everyone, the moment he fired his entire marketing team, and how infrastructure companies survive by being better than all their customers combined.
Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-michael-grinich-workos
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Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools
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WorkOS: https://workos.com/
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In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin reveals why he walked away from $300K ARR to rebuild his company from scratch for the age of AI agents. He explains why agents will outnumber humans "to the power of ten," how Daytona creates composable computers that agents can spin up on demand, and what it means to race competitors while the entire market moves at breakneck speed. Ivan shares hard-won lessons from 16 years building cloud development environments, starting with Codeanywhere in 2009 - a decade before the market was ready.
Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-ivan-burazin-daytona
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Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com
Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools
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Daytona: https://www.daytona.io/
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