Jack Bridger

Jack Bridger


Host @ Scaling DevTools

Appears in 106 Episodes

The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew

The Homebrew maintainers who built a startup - Mike McQuaid and John Britton from Workbrew

Episode 106 · · 47:12

Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running homebrew. John has previously worked at GitHub and Twili...

Paul Klein, CEO & Founder of Browserbase

Paul Klein, CEO & Founder of Browserbase

Episode 105 · · 42:19

Paul Klein is the founder and CEO of Browserbase - one of the fastest growing DevTools in 2024.Browserbase is a headless browser API focused on helping AI Agent startups.We dig into:...

Fundraising, exiting to Elastic and the future of Product Engineering | Rasmus Makwarth (CEO, Bucket)

Fundraising, exiting to Elastic and the future of Product Engineering | Rasmus Makwarth (CEO, Bucket)

Episode 104 · · 30:27

In 2017, Rasmus Makwarth sold his previous APM (Application Performance Managment) startup Opbeat to Elastic for an undisclosed amount. Opbeat became Elastic APM, which became a big ...

Shawn Wang (swyx) - founder of smol.ai, Latent Space, AI Engineer, DX.tips

Shawn Wang (swyx) - founder of smol.ai, Latent Space, AI Engineer, DX.tips

Episode 103 · · 01:16:17

Shawn Wang (aka swyx) is the founder of smol.ai (AI news curation), and the cohost of Latent Space (popular AI Engineer podcast). Plus, Shawn started the AI Engineer movement with hi...

Sagar Batchu - co-founder of Speakeasy

Sagar Batchu - co-founder of Speakeasy

Episode 102 · · 55:37

Sagar is the CEO and co-founder of Speakeasy - an API tooling platform. We talk about the journey of Speakeasy. The challenges of startup life. How they developed the product and how...

Anurag Goel - founder of Render

Anurag Goel - founder of Render

Episode 101 · · 40:33

In this conversation, Anurag Goel, founder and CEO of Render, discusses the evolution of Render as a cloud infrastructure platform is actually simple to use.He shares insights from h...

Ant Wilson - Cofounder of Supabase (100th Episode!)

Ant Wilson - Cofounder of Supabase (100th Episode!)

Episode 100 · · 42:40

This is our 100th episode! And we're thrilled to welcome back fan favourite Ant Wilson - the cofounder and CTO of Supabase.They discuss the evolution of Supabase, the importance of o...

Customer support for DevTools, with Nick Gomez from InKeep

Customer support for DevTools, with Nick Gomez from InKeep

Episode 99 · · 39:13

Nick Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of InKeep. InKeep is an AI customer support tool focused on Developer Tools.They discuss the importance of understanding developer needs, the rol...

The Developer Tools playbook, with Adam Frankl - VP of 4 DevTools unicorns

The Developer Tools playbook, with Adam Frankl - VP of 4 DevTools unicorns

Episode 98 · · 01:29:43

Adam Frankl has been VP at four Developer Tools unicorns, including JFrog, Neo4J and Sourcegraph.Adam is the author of the Developer Facing Startup and recently launched the Develope...

Michael Grinich - founder & CEO of WorkOS

Michael Grinich - founder & CEO of WorkOS

Episode 97 · · 55:50

In this conversation, with Michael Grinich - founder and CEO of WorkOS. WorkOS helps you start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. We discuss the challenge...

Clerk's Hockey Stick growth, with Colin Sidoti

Clerk's Hockey Stick growth, with Colin Sidoti

Episode 96 · · 45:27

In this episode, we're joined by returning guest Colin Sidoti - the cofounder and CEO of Clerk.Clerk is a comprehensive user management platform.  What we cover:- The origin story an...

David Mytton - Arcjet and console.dev

David Mytton - Arcjet and console.dev

Episode 95 · · 30:30

David is the CEO of Arcjet. Arcjet is a tool that helps developers protect their apps once they go into production. It offers Bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack p...

Vlad Matsiiako - cofounder of Infisical

Vlad Matsiiako - cofounder of Infisical

Episode 94 · · 39:38

Vlad Matsiiako is the CEO and co-founder of Infisical. Infisical is an Open Source Secret Management tool.What we discuss:- The story of Infisical- How the team has made Infisical ea...

Always be dogfooding, with Andrew Lisowski of devtools.fm

Always be dogfooding, with Andrew Lisowski of devtools.fm

Episode 93 · · 34:37

Andrew Lisowski is the cohost of devtools.fm. In this episode we talk about why Andrew started devtools.fm and what he's learned along the way. Life as an open source maintainer.How ...

Investing in Open Source Startups with Robby (Amanda Robson)

Investing in Open Source Startups with Robby (Amanda Robson)

Episode 92 · · 30:20

Robby (Amanda Robson) is the co-host of Open Source Startup Podcast (with Tim Chen).In this episode we discuss:There are many ways to open source successWhen open source is a good st...

Hamzah Chaudhary from Lightdash: bringing developer tools to Business Intelligence

Hamzah Chaudhary from Lightdash: bringing developer tools to Business Intelligence

Episode 91 · · 32:05

Hamzah Chaudhary is the cofounder of Lightdash, an open source, self-serve BI tool. In this episode, Hamzah shares:Their initial plan to build a consultancy and how it morphed into a...

Great documentation with Han Wang from Mintlify

Great documentation with Han Wang from Mintlify

Episode 90 · · 39:37

Han Wang is co-founder of Mintlify - modern, out the box documentation.In this episode, Han shares the story of Mintlify and how to make great docs.We even talk about the time Paul G...

Frontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers with Kate Holterhoff from RedMonk

Frontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers with Kate Holterhoff from RedMonk

Episode 89 · · 33:07

Kate Holterhoff - an analyst from RedMonk - shares why frontend developers are increasingly dictating the adoption of new developer tools.Kate shares specific examples, including Sup...

Vivian Dufour - co-founder of Meterian - enterprise sales for startups

Vivian Dufour - co-founder of Meterian - enterprise sales for startups

Episode 88 · · 32:56

Vivian Dufour is the CEO and co-founder of Meterian.Meterian is an open source vulnerability scanner.In this episode we talk about topics like:Selling to enterprisesWhy you need to m...

Ellen Chisa - Partner at Boldstart Ventures

Ellen Chisa - Partner at Boldstart Ventures

Episode 87 · · 38:26

Ellen Chisa is a partner at Boldstart Ventures. Prior to Boldstart, Ellen founded Darklang - a programming language. Before Darklang, Ellen worked in product. What we discussed: Star...

Developer quick-start guides with Amit Jotwani

Developer quick-start guides with Amit Jotwani

Episode 86 · · 39:59

How do you write a developer quick start guide that they will love?That's what we talk about with Amit Jotwani. Amit is the founder of HelloDX and previously worked in developer expe...

James Hawkins - co-founder & CEO of PostHog

James Hawkins - co-founder & CEO of PostHog

Episode 85 · · 39:51

James Hawkins is the cofounder and CEO of PostHog. PostHog is a platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features.This is the second time James has been on and the episode ...

Buying Developer Tools Companies with Greg and Matt from Polychrome

Buying Developer Tools Companies with Greg and Matt from Polychrome

Episode 84 · · 45:39

Greg Lazarus and Matt Althauser are two of the cofounders of Polychrome - a company that buys small to medium sized B2B software businesses: with a focus on Developer Tools. Their po...

Bootstrapping Flagsmith to $3m ARR

Bootstrapping Flagsmith to $3m ARR

Episode 83 · · 50:28

Ben Rometsch is the founder of Flagsmith. Flagsmith is a Feature Flag & Remote Config Service that recently reached $3m ARR.Ben candidly shares exactly how they started, how they got...

Aaron Francis - how to make videos developers want to watch

Aaron Francis - how to make videos developers want to watch

Episode 82 · · 01:02:33

Aaron Francis is someone who needs little introduction. Especially if you've ever used Laravel or MySQL. Aaron built up the highly acclaimed PlanetScale YouTube channel and now publi...

What does your company brand promise? Dani Grant from Jam.dev

What does your company brand promise? Dani Grant from Jam.dev

Episode 81 · · 34:51

Dani Grant is the founder of Jam.dev - bug reporting that developers love.In this episode we discuss:Product development & user retentionIterating to product market fitBranding - wha...

Designing APIs with Chris Bell from Knock.app

Designing APIs with Chris Bell from Knock.app

Episode 80 · · 42:24

Chris Bell is the founder of Knock.app - flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure.In this episode we discuss:Designing APIsThe importance of champions when selling to enterpri...

3 BILLION searches per month without VC funding - Jason Bosco from Typesense

3 BILLION searches per month without VC funding - Jason Bosco from Typesense

Episode 79 · · 41:57

Jason Bosco is the founder of Typesense. Typesense is the Open Source alternative to Algolia. Typesense is a batteries-included Search API.We discuss how Jason built Typesense to be ...

Digger.dev - Pivoting four times, OpenTofu & ThePrimeagen

Digger.dev - Pivoting four times, OpenTofu & ThePrimeagen

Episode 78 · · 33:39

An interview with Igor Zalutski & Utpal Nadiger from Digger.dev.Digger is an Open Source Infrastructure as Code management tool that helps orchestrate Terraform and OpenTofu within y...

Dana Oshiro - General Partner at Heavybit

Dana Oshiro - General Partner at Heavybit

Episode 77 · · 48:14

Dana Oshiro is a General Partner at Heavybit. Heavybit is a VC that invests exclusively in developer-first startups.What we discuss:One sharp thing. Finding an addressable chunk of a...