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Dev Propulsion Labs
Hosted by Evil Martians · technology · EN
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.
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What is Dev Propulsion Labs about?
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.
Who hosts Dev Propulsion Labs?
Dev Propulsion Labs is hosted by Evil Martians. The show has published 38 episodes to date.
What has Dev Propulsion Labs covered recently?
Recent episodes include "William Imoh, founder of Hackmamba: AEO is just good SEO | Evil Martians podcast" (25 August 2026, 47 minutes), "Kate Holterhoff of RedMonk: AI slop, agent experience & the open source crisis | Evil Martians" (14 July 2026, 35 minutes), and "Matt Biilmann of Netlify: why agent experience is the new developer experience | Evil Martians" (12 May 2026, 58 minutes).
How often does Dev Propulsion Labs publish?
Dev Propulsion Labs publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 38 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Dev Propulsion Labs?
Booking probability for Dev Propulsion Labs is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Dev Propulsion Labs requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Dev Propulsion Labs's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Dev Propulsion Labs are IT Services & Software Development and Business & Management Consulting. Dev Propulsion Labs has a technology audience.
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Episode #18
Kate Holterhoff of RedMonk: AI slop, agent experience & the open source crisis | Evil Martians
Jul 14, 202635 minS4Kate 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 analyst business itself. She also shares her...
Episode #17
Matt Biilmann of Netlify: why agent experience is the new developer experience | Evil Martians
May 12, 202658 minS4Matt 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 experience in developer tools. He also shares...
Episode #16
Lingo.dev co-founder Max Prilutskiy: AI localization, AX, and having a lean team | Evil Martians
Apr 28, 202651 minS4Max 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 six-person team ships 56 pull requests a...
Episode #15
Firestreak partner Amir Rustamzadeh: what VCs look for in devtools founders | Evil Martians podcast
Apr 14, 202659 minS4Amir 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 developer tool ideas are no longer venture scale...
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Episode #14
Anuraag Gutgutia, co-founder of TrueFoundry: trust closes enterprise deals | Evil Martians podcast
Mar 24, 202646 minS4Anuraag 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 TrueFoundry evolved from an ML deployment...
Episode #13
Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B acquisition and databases for agents | Evil Martians podcast
Mar 10, 202659 minS4Stas 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 member of technical staff at Databricks...
Episode #12
CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill: going viral in Japan and AI code guardrails | Evil Martians podcast
Feb 23, 202639 minS4In 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 important not less, and what it takes to...
Episode #11
David Gomes of Cursor: why half of developers still aren't using AI | Evil Martians podcast
Feb 10, 202650 minS4David 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 about why the world's best engineers are...
Episode #10
Monica Sarbu, founder of Xata: rebuilding Xata and why diverse teams win | Evil Martians podcast
Jan 26, 202646 minS4Monica 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 about how Xata pivoted from an...
Episode #9
Piyush Agarwal, co-founder of Reo.dev: intent signals and devtool GTM | Evil Martians podcast
Jan 12, 202636 minS4Piyush 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 millions of open-source users and still...
Dec 16, 202554 minS4David 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 sales — purely through bottom-up adoption...
Episode #7
Abhi Aiyer, co-founder of Mastra: TypeScript for AI agents and making moves | Evil Martians podcast
Dec 9, 202543 minS4Abhi 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 a free book into Mastra's biggest growth...
Episode #6
Michael Grinich, founder of WorkOS: the plumbing behind OpenAI and Cursor | Evil Martians podcast
Nov 19, 202556 minS4Michael Grinich, founder and CEO of WorkOS, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about how WorkOS became the invisible infrastructure powering enterprise features for OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic, Perplexity, and...
Episode #5
Ivan Burazin, CEO of Daytona: walking from $300K ARR to build for agents | Evil Martians podcast
Nov 12, 202540 minS4Ivan 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 agents. He explains why agents will...
Episode #4
Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone: scaling to 5M developers with no meetings | Evil Martians podcast
Nov 11, 202548 minS4In 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 became part of their culture, and why vibe...
Oct 28, 202543 minS4Sam 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 Vitess usage 61,000% in four years, and...
Episode #2
Zeno Rocha, founder of Resend: $18M Series A by obsessing over every detail | Evil Martians podcast
Oct 23, 202555 minS4Zeno 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 products fast. He shares why seeking...
Episode #1
Jeff Huber, co-founder of Chroma: context engineering and modern AI search | Evil Martians podcast
Oct 22, 202540 minS4Jeff 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 to be done, and what it takes to build...
Episode #10
Sarah Wooders on why LLMs are like Memento and building the infrastructure for stateful AI agents
Sep 11, 202537 minS3Join 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 AI applications. From Berkeley PhD to YC...
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