Dev Propulsion Labs
Episodes
David Cramer of Sentry on never going upmarket
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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+ devel...
Abhi Aiyer of Mastra on raising from 120+ builders and the power of community
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 thei...
Michael Grinich of WorkOS on building invisible infrastructure that powers every AI company
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, WorkOS founder Michael Grinich reveals why product always beats sales methodology in enterprise, how being the...
Ivan Burazin, Daytona on AI computers, $300K ARR sacrifice and racing competitors on a moving train
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Paul Copplestone of Supabase on low ego teams, meme workshops, and building for the next generation
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone reveals why hiring ex-founders with beaten-down egos builds better products, how...
Sam Lambert of PlanetScale on surviving AWS outages and the real cost of extreme fault tolerance
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Lambert of PlanetScale reveals how they stayed up during the AWS outage that took down millions of sites, helped grow Vitess usage 61,000% in four...
Zeno Rocha of Resend on cutting scope ruthlessly and shipping perfect products fast
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Resend founder Zeno Rocha reveals how he built an $18M Series A email API company by obsessing over brand, giving away React Email for free, and rejec...
Jeff Huber of Chroma on how small opinionated teams with low egos build the best developer tools
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Chroma co-founder Jeff Huber explains why "consensus is a death blow" for great products and reveals his frame...
Sarah Wooders on why LLMs are like Memento and building the infrastructure for stateful AI agents
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join 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 wil...
Adam Frankl on why 2025 is the best year ever to build a developer tool startup
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an incredible conversation with Adam Frankl - author, advisor, investor, and the final boss of development marketing. In this episode, we ...
Jason Bosco on building a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches without VC funding
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Bosco, CEO and co-founder of TypeSense, shares how he and his co-founder built a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches monthly wi...
Anna Veronika Dorogush on why having high-density talent on the team is crucial for Recraft
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Veronika Dorogush, founder and CEO of Recraft, reveals how she built one of the world's leading AI image generation platforms by solving real pro...
Michael Magán, co-founder at tambo ai, on how a friendly octopus makes AI more approachable
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtoolsLinks:- tambo ai: https://tambo.co/- Mich...
José Valim on feeding desire to learn, healthy Elixir ecosystem and the future of AI tooling
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
José Valim, creator of Elixir and founder of Dashbit, shares how he built one of the most loved programming languages by following curiosity over mar...
Adam Wenchel, CEO at Arthur AI, on building AI guardrails, the last mile problem, and coaching code bots
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Wenchel has been building AI infrastructure since before it was cool. As CEO and co-founder of Arthur AI, he's spent six years solving the "last ...
Sam Bhagwat on Gatsby and Mastra, YC and tapping into your inner child
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, we sit down with Sam Bhagwat, the dev tools visionary who co-founded Gatsby and is now transforming AI develop...
Jono Bacon, former Director of Community at GitHub & Ubuntu, author of “People Powered”
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 De...
Alice Chen, CTO & Co-Founder at OpenContext
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
David Heinemeier Hansson, DHH - Co-founder at Basecamp & HEY, Ruby on Rails Creator
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Heinemeier Hansson also known as DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder of Basecamp & HEY, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winnin...
Hahnbee Lee - Co-Founder at Mintlify
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Miško Hevery - BuilderIO, Angular, Qwik
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the CTO of Builder.io, Miško Hevery directs the technological prowess behind the platform's innovative projects including Qwik, a web framework fo...
Shanea Leven - CodeSee
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shanea Leven is CEO and co-founder of CodeSee. CodeSee is a developer platform that helps developers master understanding codebases. CodeSee's mission...
Ivar Østhus - Unleash
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ivar Østhus is the Co-founder and CTO at Unleash, an open-source feature management software for Enterprises. What started as a side gig in a basemen...
Peer Richelsen - Cal.com
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are featuring Peer Richelsen who is disrupting the scheduling space with the open-sourced Cal.com.TooltipsEvil Martians transform growth-...
Monica Sarbu - Xata
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Monica Sarbu, Founder and CEO at Xata, a serverless database platform powered by PostgreSQL. Prior to that, she worked on an open...
Nikita Shamgunov - Neon
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are learning from Nikita Shamgunov, CEO at Neon and Partner at Khosla Ventures who previously co-founded MemSQL and scaled to ~40M ARR.Ne...
Stefan Avram - WunderGraph
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk to Stefan Avram, Co-Founder and Head of Growth at Wundergraph, a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and ...