Karan Vaidya, founder of Composio: MCP use cases & Elon retweets
Karen from Composio shares how developers are using MCP to connect tools like Slack, Notion, and Gmail with AI agents, growing from nearly zero to 100,000 users in 6 months. They capitalized on key moments when new AI tools, such as Grok versions and Claude releases, came out, creating examples and demos that resonated strongly across social media and got them retweeted by Elon Musk. Hear how the team learns to use these tools better over time, helping each new release work smarter than the last.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.Links:  • Composio   • Composio's X  • Karan's X  • Launch Video
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Studying Lee Robinson, Cursor's new VP of Developer experience
Lee Robinson helped Vercel grow to $200M+ in ARR and scaled the Next.js community to over 1.3 million active developers. I dive into his blog posts to uncover valuable insights and lessons about how he achieved this success, covering topics like docs, community building, developer education, marketing, and product development.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.Links:  • Lee Robinson's blog  • Lee Robinson's X  • Peter Yang's interview  • swyx's interview  • Gonto on Scaling DevTools  • Developer Marketing CommunityP.s. this is a new style of episode, let me know what you think.Â
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Running hackathons, with Carter Rabasa from Langflow
Carter Rabasa, head of DevRel at Langflow, talks about organizing and participating in hackathons, how these events enable developers to break free from routine work, and how they can help accelerate tool development.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.Links:  • Carter's X  • Carter's LinkedIn  • Cascadia AI Hackathon (and Luma)  • AI Tinkerers  • Bolt Virtual HackathonÂ
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Rita Kozlov from Cloudflare: competing with the hyperscalers
Rita Kozlov is the VP of Developers and AI at Cloudflare. We talk about how Cloudflare focuses on building disruptive, efficient technologies like their Workers platform to gain long-term competitive advantages. They use their own developer platform to ship fast, and hire people who deeply care, with a culture of curiosity and transparency that drives continuous innovation.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:Rita’s X Rita’s LinkedInCloudflareswyx article on cloudflare Stratechery article on Cloudflare's disruptionÂ
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Matt Palmer on Replit's speedrun to $100M ARR
Matt Palmer from Replit shares how the company scaled to $100M in ARR from ~$10M in under a year. We talk about the importance of video for teaching the non-linear process of working with AI, the challenge of rewriting documentation for a broader audience using the Diátaxis framework, and how they support a diverse community of users navigating this new AI-driven development landscape.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs. Links:ReplitReplit Agent documentationDiátaxis documentation frameworkMatt's YouTubeMatt's XReplit's Youtube
We investigate what it takes to grow developer tools and AI DevTools. Topics include developer marketing, DevRel, developer advocacy and developer experience. Featuring founders and key people from the likes of Vercel, ElevenLabs and OpenAI. Scaling DevTools is sponsored by WorkOS.
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