Dev Propulsion Labs

In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Harjot Gill, co-founder and CEO at CodeRabbit, shares what it actually takes to build a fast-growing AI devtool. He tells us the story of how going viral in Japan organically showed him there was a market need and what they did after.
Harjot also explains why AI code generation doesn't make code review obsolete, how open source became CodeRabbit's best GTM channel, and why the old startup playbooks no longer apply.
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Episode notes: https://evilmartians.com/events/podcast-harjot-gill-coderabbit
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David Gomes, product engineer at Cursor, explains why the best engineers are fully adopting AI while half the world's developers haven't started. He also reveals why having a diverse team is more important than a business-focused one. Plus, David breaks down his career path and the differences between working in SF vs Europe.

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In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Monica Sarbu, founder of Xata, explains why they shifted from targeting builders to serving enterprise teams with their Postgres modernization platform. She also shares why Xata is remote-first, how twice-yearly offsites help build culture, and why having a diverse team leads to better products.

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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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
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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