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Vica Melnikova
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New business @evilmartians.com
Podcast about building successful developer tools: https://evilmartians.com/devpropulsionlabs
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We at @evilmartians.com carefully curated a list of dev tool founders: go.bsky.app/FRhL5Pa

If you are building for developers, start here 👇👇👇
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Early bird and Supporter tickets for the San Francisco Ruby Conference just went on sale! lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025
The San Francisco Ruby Conference ♦️ · Luma
Early bird and Supporter ticket sale opens on July 3 at 8 am Pacific! SF Ruby is excited to invite you to our premier event: the San Francisco Ruby…
lu.ma
July 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We carefully curated a list of VCs that are active in the space of developer tools in 2025:

evilmartians.com/chronicles/t...

If you are building something for developers and are considering to fundraise, this is your resource
January 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Numbers speak louder than words. 2024 @evilmartians.com Wrapped: Building the Future of Developer Tools 🚀

This year 41 startups trusted us with designing and building their products, improving developer experience and performance. Our clients secured a crazy $1B+ from leading VCs
December 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM
We’ve analyzed 40+ developer tools to master the art of intuitive onboarding, read on to learn how to make developers fall in love with your product:

evilmartians.com/chronicles/e...
Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Dev tool users don’t need the typical onboarding process, period. Let’s share fundamentals and tips on how we help users reach ultimate productivity ASAP!
evilmartians.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:16 PM
We’ve got a very precious gift from our very best engineers for your codebase:

the power to keep it merry, bright, and maintainable
December 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Friends, we are publishing the new #Rails frontend story–for every small team that dreams big! The key to productivity is to use the full toolkit: Hotwire only, Hotwire with mounted React/Vue/Svelte components, and SPA with Inertia.js–while keeping it the Rails way.
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 AM
There is always a ton of discussion about the Rails frontend. No more discussing, folks.

Here is our guide for the perfect Rails frontend:
Friends, we are publishing the new #Rails frontend story–for every small team that dreams big! The key to productivity is to use the full toolkit: Hotwire only, Hotwire with mounted React/Vue/Svelte components, and SPA with Inertia.js–while keeping it the Rails way.
December 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM
December going strong!

Today I started a 3-week yoga challenge with a friend group. 20-min yoga warm-up on zoom at 8 am, and everything changes.

Today is just the first today, but I already feel great
December 9, 2024 at 11:48 AM
bolt.new is taking the world by storm.

In this article I dive deep into how @stackblitz.com made their code gen product grow from 0 to $4M ARR in a month, and how that’s affecting @supabase.com and everyone one of us, frankly

evilmartians.com/chronicles/b...
bolt.new from StackBlitz: how they surfed the AI wave—with no wipeouts—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
We helped StackBlitz scale to 3M+ developers and build bolt.new, going from 0 to $4M ARR in 4 weeks. Read on and let's help your dev tool surf the AI wave.
evilmartians.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:52 AM
We work with 20-30 VC-backed startups each year.
They have more in common than you think.

We've collected a few insights we learned from devtool founders through our podcast and personal conversations:

evilmartians.com/chronicles/f...

#devtools
Founders, if you want A+ startup success, do the homework first!—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
We've worked with dozens of early-stage startups and seen how rushed product development can blur founder focus, blow up budgets, and lead to frustration. So, before jumping in—do your homework!
evilmartians.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Festive season is approaching, and it's time for my favorite chore of the year — potluck dinner with Lisbon-based Evil Martians. I'll be hosting it at my place.

To-do:
- Choose the date
- Send out invites
- Decorate the house
- Plan the menu
- Secret Santa prep
- Put together gift baskets for kids
November 18, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Got confused for a second because accidentally missed 50+ notifications on here 🤪 Happy that the devtools starter pack is getting some love tho: go.bsky.app/FRhL5Pa

#devtools — are hashtags a thing on 🦋 btw?
November 15, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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I always wanted to track down all @palkan.bsky.social articles on evilmartians.com, so I built a proper Martian profile page for that. Now all posts and OSS work by any Martian are in one spot 👽 evilmartians.com/martians/vla...
November 8, 2024 at 6:15 PM
We at @evilmartians.com carefully curated a list of dev tool founders: go.bsky.app/FRhL5Pa

If you are building for developers, start here 👇👇👇
November 14, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Reposted by Vica Melnikova
Case study on bolt.new from AnthropicAI:
- Zero to $4m ARR in 4 wks
- 100k+ of y'all using Bolt every wk
- One of fastest growing AI tools globally
- Read it at bolt.fyi/anthropic-4m...

Wild and surreal! Thanks for all the support and patience as we scale y'all 🙇 Let's go!
bolt.new
Prompt, run, edit & deploy web apps
bolt.new
November 13, 2024 at 10:20 PM
The temperature dropped to 50F in Lisbon which is pretty cold coupled with crazy humidity. The perfect reason to dress my baby girl in Rudolph uniform 🦌🎄

It's funny how here people jump from Halloween to Christmas in a day, while in the US there is also the whole Thanksgiving season
November 14, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Today's special: Ruby on Rails monolith served with a zesty AnyCable reduction sauce. Zero-latency flavor, real-time satisfaction. Pairs well with high scalability! 🍽️👩‍🍳

evilmartians.com/chronicles/g...
November 11, 2024 at 2:32 PM
In the meantime, let me share our latest articles on launch weeks.

Surprise surprise! Launch weeks are not necessarily about launches which came as a huge surprise for me at some point. Think of launch weeks as campaigns, focused PR sprints for your product:

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How to do launch weeks for developer tools, startups, and small teams—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
A launch week is densely packed with content and activities designed to announce and explain new releases and features from different angles. They are a tested promotional strategy for early stage sta...
evilmartians.com
November 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
I feel it's my mission to collect all the exciting developer tool accounts here on bluesky - stay tuned
November 6, 2024 at 12:22 PM