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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. In this post, we lay out common stumbles and share lessons from those in our orbit.
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We already proved that a combination of AnyCable, Twilio, and Hanami could be a performant real-time solution for phone systems. Now, we band together AnyCable, Twilio, and OpenAI’s Realtime API to help integrate a voice assistant into your project. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/anycable-speaking-needing-help-with-a-twilio-openai-connection  With AnyCable’s help, Evil Martians leveraged Go for real-time processing in a Ruby on Rails monolith—Doximity's success shows you don't need to abandon your Rails app to achieve high-performance, real-time features. Launch weeks are a tested promotional strategy for early stage startups (and especially for developer tools with small teams!) In this new post, we untangle launch weeks and share tips for organizing your own. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-do-launch-weeks-for-developer-tools-startups-and-small-teams There are a lot of opacity misconceptions, like “opacity hits performance” or “opacity is just bad”. But we’re myth-busting all of them and showing how it can make workflows more efficient and flexible—especially useful for startups and fast-moving teams! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/woah-opacity-a-full-guide-to-this-badass-hero-of-efficient-ui-design Ever wanted to write your own Go code generator but didn't know how to begin? Our new post shares a starting point! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/a-taste-of-go-code-generator-magic-a-quick-guide-to-getting-started If you have experience in designing developer-faced applications, look at our new job: we’re hiring a Product Designer! Your knowledge of UX patterns, a keen eye for aesthetics, communication and engineering skills are welcomed!  It's a given that we now design AI products ...and actually, we more than *just* design them! Read (and see) our work with Tegon, where we researched AI capabilities and seamlessly integrated them into the task creation process for an AI-first UX & UI. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/designing-tegon-a-signature-vision-for-the-ai-driven-issue-tracker We know from our work in the developer tools world that promotion can be a real challenge, especially for startups. Use our guide and face it head on! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/creating-a-winning-sales-flow-with-authentic-writing-from-engineers Hiring! On our distributed team, you’ll go beyond managing projects, timelines, & tasks, and be involved in pre-sales & building long-term relationships. Wide range of benefits! We're open to a diverse range of talent; check the link to learn and apply!  Local-first is already disrupting the market of professional tools with one killer feature: “zero latency”. In this new post, we look at the magic behind 4 success stories (including our own experience), and share some tips for getting started. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/a-letter-to-founders-join-the-local-first-movement A live stream of the SF Bay area Ruby meetup is starting in 1 hour (September 3, at 5pm PST)! We’re waiting for you here: Watch a live stream of today’s SF Bay area #Ruby meetup at GitHub HQ — at 5pm PST! We have fantastic speakers: Cameron Dutro (GitHub), Takashi Kokubun (Shopify), Brad Gessler, Kamil Nicieja (Plane, a YC startup), and Konstantin Gredeskoul (Academia.edu)!  Created a browser extension for Chrome and want it on Safari now, too? Learn how—and get guidelines on the extra steps needed for App Store publication! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-quickly-and-weightlessly-convert-chrome-extensions-to-safari As developer tool builders, it’s natural to experience AI-FOMO. If that’s you, don’t worry—we’re here to help. Read on to see how we approached the AI-ification of our TestProf toolkit! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/dev-tools-ai-fication-101-lessons-from-martian-robots A test optimization glow up! Learn the tools, techniques, and mindset that got our client 5X faster tests from Vitalii Yulieff. How low could we get that testing time? https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/railing-against-time-tools-and-techniques-that-got-us-5x-faster-results Dev tools can only be as good as their SDKs. We realized this when optimizing the NATS Ruby client, ultimately getting a 3X faster SDK. So, here’s how and why to treat SDKs as first-class citizens in the world of dev tools. https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/the-sdk-imperative-why-developer-tools-live-or-die-by-their-sdks New blog post: we analyze a fundamental UI design principle for developer tools. Read and make sure users perceive your UI as logical and intuitive! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/devtool-layout-rule We’ve updated this article from @sitnik_en numerous times over the past couple of years, but we’ve polished and updated it even more since all browsers now support oklch() and relative colors! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rgb-hsl New post! Building a complex browser extension isn’t exactly easy—but no worries. Nina Torgunakova walks through building a full-featured Chrome extension for a real project! https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-to-make-complex-chrome-plugins-a-zero-gravity-guide |