James McKinven

James McKinven


Founder of PodPanda

Appears in 47 Episodes

Erik Bernhardsson from Modal Labs

Erik Bernhardsson from Modal Labs

Episode 64 · · 32:38

Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of Modal Labs. Modal Labs is a tool to run generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and much more.Links:- https://twitter.com/bernha...

The hard things about dev tools with Felix Magedanz from Hanko

The hard things about dev tools with Felix Magedanz from Hanko

Episode 63 · · 32:55

Felix is the founder of Hanko. Hanko is the Open source auth and passkey infrastructure for developers.We talk about:- The challenges of pivoting- Layoffs- The intangible goal of dev...

A bootstrapper's story with Julien Danjou, founder of Mergify

A bootstrapper's story with Julien Danjou, founder of Mergify

Episode 62 · · 30:52

Julien Danjou is the founder of Mergify - a tool that helps merge code safer and faster. Summary (auto-generated):How do you split your time between work and marketing? 0:00Julian sp...

From getting hacked to cybersecurity founders with Antoine Carossio and Tristan Kalos from Escape.tech

From getting hacked to cybersecurity founders with Antoine Carossio and Tristan Kalos from Escape.tech

Episode 61 · · 30:59

Escape helps you Find and fix GraphQL security flaws at scale within your DevSecOps processIntroduction to Tristan and Antoine. 0:00How did they get started in cybersecurity? 4:35How...

Developer copywriting mistakes to avoid, with Zach Goldie

Developer copywriting mistakes to avoid, with Zach Goldie

Episode 60 · · 37:26

Zach Goldie is a DevTools messaging consultantShip code faster is an empty statement. 0:00How do you position yourself against the competition? 1:56The problem with free monitoring t...

Building a developer social network with Steve Krouse from Val Town

Building a developer social network with Steve Krouse from Val Town

Episode 59 · · 41:18

Steve Krouse is the founder of Val.town - a social website where you can write and run code.Introduction to Val.Town's vision 0:00How long it took Github to make money on SteveVal To...

Dax from SST - content that has nothing to do with your tool can still convert

Dax from SST - content that has nothing to do with your tool can still convert

Episode 58 · · 29:47

Dax Raad is building SST - an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps.What Is SST? 0:00The theory in January was to make content that has nothing to do with...

From mobile app to mobile developer tool with Gabriel Savit from Runway

From mobile app to mobile developer tool with Gabriel Savit from Runway

Episode 57 · · 41:40

Gabriel Savit is the founder and CEO of Runway - a tool to coordinate and automate mobile app releases.Introductions 0:00Introduction to GabeUnderlying themes of runway mobile releas...

Hire engineers who don't mind talking, with Brian Douglas from OpenSauced

Hire engineers who don't mind talking, with Brian Douglas from OpenSauced

Episode 56 · · 32:51

Brian Douglas - or bdougie - is the founder of OpenSauced - an open source intelligence tool. Brian was previously Developer Experience Lead at Netlify and Director of Developer Advo...

Building ambitious developer tools with Ruben Fiszel from Windmill

Building ambitious developer tools with Ruben Fiszel from Windmill

Episode 55 · · 27:35

Ruben is the founder of Windmill https://www.windmill.dev/ which helps you turn scripts into workflows and UIs in minutes Some of the things we talk about:Getting to the threshold of...

Killing features with Josh Twist, founder of Zuplo

Killing features with Josh Twist, founder of Zuplo

Episode 54 · · 36:02

Josh Twist is the founder of Zuplo, an API gatewayIntroducing Josh Twist, the founder of Zuplo. 0:00Zuplo vs Azure API management.How do you make this fit into the developer workflow...

Forums vs Slack with Dan Moore from FusionAuth

Forums vs Slack with Dan Moore from FusionAuth

Episode 53 · · 25:58

Dan is head of DevRel at FusionAuth - Auth Built for Devs, by DevsFusionAuth’s journey from moderation to auth provider.Introduction to Dan Moore, head of DevRel at fusion.Fusion's j...

Building computer vision tooling with Niko from Rerun

Building computer vision tooling with Niko from Rerun

Episode 52 · · 25:47

Nikolaus West is the founder of Rerun.io - Visualize computer vision.What we discuss:Finding a problem to work on What are some of the features that will be free and open source?What...

Developer onboarding with Kilian from Polypane

Developer onboarding with Kilian from Polypane

Episode 51 · · 31:45

How do you do onboarding in a way developers actually like?Kilian is the founder of Polypane - The browser for ambitious web developers https://polypane.app/Kilian's Twitter - https:...

From VC to DevTools with Karl Clement, founder of CODEOWNERS

From VC to DevTools with Karl Clement, founder of CODEOWNERS

Episode 50 · · 28:35

Karl Clement is the founder of https://codeowners.com/ CODEOWNERS is the single source of truth for code ownership.SummaryIntroducing Karl Code ownershipWhat are the types of people ...

Great Developer Experience with ngrok founder Alan Shreve

Great Developer Experience with ngrok founder Alan Shreve

Episode 49 · · 29:20

Alan Shreve is the founder & CEO of ngrok. ngrok is a simplified API-first ingress-as-a-service that adds connectivity, security, and observability to your apps in one lineWhat we co...

How Fred Schott built two open source projects with 20,000+ GitHub stars

How Fred Schott built two open source projects with 20,000+ GitHub stars

Episode 48 · · 47:33

Fred Schott is the founder of Astro.build and the Astro technology company. Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy every...

Making developer videos with Jamie Barton, DevRel Engineer at Grafbase

Making developer videos with Jamie Barton, DevRel Engineer at Grafbase

Episode 46 · · 27:29

Jamie Barton is a DevRel Engineer at Grafbase https://grafbase.com/ and the host of https://graphql.wtf/

How SigNoz grew to 12k GitHub stars with Pranay Prateek

How SigNoz grew to 12k GitHub stars with Pranay Prateek

Episode 45 · · 28:53

Pranay Prateek is the founder of SigNoz - Open Source Observability with Traces, Logs and Metrics in a single pane. Topics covered:How SigNoz has grown to 12k starsHow did you get st...

Developer Marketing with Adam DuVander

Developer Marketing with Adam DuVander

Episode 44 · · 34:06

Adam DuVander is an expert in developer marketing and the author of two books: Developer Marketing Does Not Exist and Technical Content Strategy Decoded. In this episode, we dive dee...

Go slow & build good things, with Rob Moore from Churnkey

Go slow & build good things, with Rob Moore from Churnkey

Episode 43 · · 24:53

Rob Moore is the CTO and founder of Churnkey - a tool that reduces churn for you automatically. What we cover:- Developer documentation- How Rob buys tools- How Rob discovers tools- ...

PMF is one pivot away with Ant Wilson from Supabase

PMF is one pivot away with Ant Wilson from Supabase

Episode 42 · · 37:19

Ant is the founder of Supabase. Supabase is the open-source firebase alternative and has gone from zero to 47,000+ GitHub stars in a matter of years.  What we cover:- Ant's Egyptolog...

Growing with open source projects - Josh Thurman from Uffizzi

Growing with open source projects - Josh Thurman from Uffizzi

Episode 41 · · 30:48

Josh is a Navy Seal turned founder of Uffizzi. Uffizzi provides environments as a Service and works with open source projects like Backstage.Topics- Pivoting between ideas- Working w...

Building in-person developer communities with Paul Butler from Drifting In Space

Building in-person developer communities with Paul Butler from Drifting In Space

Episode 40 · · 27:48

Paul Butler is the cofounder of Drifting in Space. They believe that browser-based applications can feel like magic if they’re built with the right tools. They make Jamsocket, a plat...

Developer marketplaces with Robin Warren, founder of Corrello & Blue Cat Reports

Developer marketplaces with Robin Warren, founder of Corrello & Blue Cat Reports

Episode 39 · · 30:43

Robin Warren is the Founder of Corrello & Blue Cat Reports. Corrello is a Scrum and Kanban extension that instantly and seamlessly integrates with Trello.

Demand Generation for DevTools - Dino Kukic from Hygraph

Demand Generation for DevTools - Dino Kukic from Hygraph

Episode 38 · · 18:58

Dino Kukic is Head of Demand Generation at Hygraph. Hygraph is the federated content platform that allows you to unify, structure, enrich and distribute content from anywhere to anyw...

Where should Developer Advocacy sit? With Vera Tiago from OutSystems

Where should Developer Advocacy sit? With Vera Tiago from OutSystems

Episode 37 · · 26:51

Vera Tiago is a Developer Advocacy Manager at OutSystems. OutSystems helps turn your big ideas into apps. Uniting design, code and deployment, the OutSystems platform radically simpl...

Shomik Ghosh - office hours with a DevTools investor

Shomik Ghosh - office hours with a DevTools investor

Episode 36 · · 38:31

Shomik Ghosh is Partner at boldstart Ventures. boldstart Ventures is a day one partner and true believer for developer first, crypto infra, and SaaS founders.

Making DevTools more human with Carla Sofia Teixeira from Miro

Making DevTools more human with Carla Sofia Teixeira from Miro

Episode 35 · · 31:21

Carla Sofia Teixeira is a DevRel Program Manager at Miro. Miro helps your team go beyond brainstorming, with a wide variety of tasks that require collaboration: workshopping, strateg...

Great DevRel Content is a process, not a project with Jason Lengstorf

Great DevRel Content is a process, not a project with Jason Lengstorf

Episode 34 · · 38:10

Jason Lengstorf is the host of Learn with Jason. A pair programming YouTube channel with more than 30,000 subscribers.