Dev Propulsion Labs
by Evil Martians
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About this podcast
Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools, hosted by Victoria Melnikova. Victoria is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, working with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. She sits down face-to-face in San Francisco with founders behind companies like Cursor, Sentry, Supabase, Resend, CodeRabbit, WorkOS, Elixir, and PlanetScale to talk about what actually makes developer-focused businesses work.
Dev Propulsion Labs is produced by Evil Martians, a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Enjoyed by 45K+ listeners.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 38 episodes
- William Imoh, founder of Hackmamba: AEO is just good SEO | Evil Martians podcast · 47 min · Season 4 Episode 19William Imoh, founder and CEO of Hackmamba (https://hackmamba.io/), sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why AI search optimization is mostly just good SEO that has…
- Kate Holterhoff of RedMonk: AI slop, agent experience & the open source crisis | Evil Martians · 35 min · Season 4 Episode 18Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk (https://redmonk.com/), sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about what AI is doing to open source, developer tools, and the…
- Matt Biilmann of Netlify: why agent experience is the new developer experience | Evil Martians · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 17Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/), sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why agent experience (AX) is replacing developer…
- Lingo.dev co-founder Max Prilutskiy: AI localization, AX, and having a lean team | Evil Martians · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 16Max Prilutskiy, CEO and co-founder of Lingo.dev, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why localization is still far from a solved problem in the age of AI, how a…
- Firestreak partner Amir Rustamzadeh: what VCs look for in devtools founders | Evil Martians podcast · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 15Amir Rustamzadeh, partner at Firestreak Ventures, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how to spot a force-of-nature founder before anyone else does, why most…
- Anuraag Gutgutia, co-founder of TrueFoundry: trust closes enterprise deals | Evil Martians podcast · 46 min · Season 4 Episode 14Anuraag Gutgutia, co-founder and COO of TrueFoundry, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how to sell enterprise AI infrastructure when nobody trusts you yet, how…
- Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B acquisition and databases for agents | Evil Martians podcast · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 13Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B Databricks deal and the agent era | Evil Martians podcast In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon and…
- CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill: going viral in Japan and AI code guardrails | Evil Martians podcast · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 12In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill shares how CodeRabbit went viral in Japan before anywhere else, why AI code generation makes code review more…
- David Gomes of Cursor: why half of developers still aren't using AI | Evil Martians podcast · 50 min · Season 4 Episode 11David Gomes of Cursor: why half of developers still aren't using AI | Evil Martians podcast David Gomes, product engineer at Cursor, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk…
- Monica Sarbu, founder of Xata: rebuilding Xata and why diverse teams win | Evil Martians podcast · 46 min · Season 4 Episode 10Monica Sarbu, founder of Xata: rebuilding Xata and why diverse teams win | Evil Martians podcast Monica Sarbu, founder and CEO of Xata, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk…
- Piyush Agarwal, co-founder of Reo.dev: intent signals and devtool GTM | Evil Martians podcast · 36 min · Season 4 Episode 9Piyush Agarwal, co-founder of Reo.dev, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why go-to-market is the hardest unsolved problem in developer tools, how companies can have…
- David Cramer, founder of Sentry: building for the Fortune 500,000 | Evil Martians podcast · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 8David Cramer, founder of Sentry, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how he built a developer tool used by 4 million+ developers without partnerships or enterprise…
- Abhi Aiyer, co-founder of Mastra: TypeScript for AI agents and making moves | Evil Martians podcast · 43 min · Season 4 Episode 7Abhi Aiyer, CTO and co-founder of Mastra, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why TypeScript is overtaking Python for AI agents, how education-first marketing turned…
- Michael Grinich, founder of WorkOS: the plumbing behind OpenAI and Cursor | Evil Martians podcast · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 6Michael Grinich, founder and CEO of WorkOS, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how WorkOS became the invisible infrastructure powering enterprise features for…
- Ivan Burazin, CEO of Daytona: walking from $300K ARR to build for agents | Evil Martians podcast · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 5Ivan Burazin, CEO and founder of Daytona, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why he walked away from $300K ARR to rebuild his company from scratch for the age of AI…
- Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone: scaling to 5M developers with no meetings | Evil Martians podcast · 48 min · Season 4 Episode 4In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone reveals why hiring ex-founders with beaten-down egos builds better products, how internal meme workshops…
- Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale: databases that never go down | Evil Martians podcast · 43 min · Season 4 Episode 3Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how PlanetScale stayed up during the AWS outage that took down millions of sites, why they grew…
- Zeno Rocha, founder of Resend: $18M Series A by obsessing over every detail | Evil Martians podcast · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 2Zeno Rocha, founder and CEO of Resend, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how he built an $18M Series A email API company by ruthlessly cutting scope to ship perfect…
- Jeff Huber, co-founder of Chroma: context engineering and modern AI search | Evil Martians podcast · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 1Jeff Huber, co-founder and CEO of Chroma, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why RAG became industry brain rot, how context engineering replaced it as the real job…
- Sarah Wooders on why LLMs are like Memento and building the infrastructure for stateful AI agents · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 10Join us for a conversation with Sarah Wooders, CTO & co-founder of Letta AI, as she reveals why LLMs are not there yet and how stateful agents will unlock the next generation of…
