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Vica Melnikova

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New business @evilmartians.com Podcast about building successful developer tools: evilmartians.com/devpropulsionlabs

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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Early bird and Supporter tickets for the San Francisco Ruby Conference just went on sale! lu.ma/sfrubyconf2025
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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…
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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...
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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!
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We’ve got a very precious gift from our very best engineers for your codebase: the power to keep it merry, bright, and maintainable
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Irina Nazarova @inazarova.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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.
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
There is always a ton of discussion about the Rails frontend. No more discussing, folks. Here is our guide for the perfect Rails frontend:
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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...
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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.
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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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!
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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?
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Svyatoslav Kryukov @skryukov.dev · 08/11/2024
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...
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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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bolt.new @bolt.new · 13/11/2024
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!
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Prompt, run, edit & deploy web apps
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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...
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
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: evilmartians.com/chronicles/h...
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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...
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Vica Melnikova @vicamelnikova.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I feel it's my mission to collect all the exciting developer tool accounts here on bluesky - stay tuned
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