Evil Martians
The go-to agency for devtools
The go-to agency for devtools
8 startups grew from seed to unicorn with our help
25B+ total downloads of our open source projects
Need to build an online product or its MVP, design a better UI, optimize your application, scale the infrastructure, or validate a new idea? Evil Martians’ services are tailored to help you!
| Backend Development | Performance Optimization |
| Product Design | Frontend Development |
| AI-Native Development | Martian Design Sprint |
This includes both early‑stage startups and Fortune 500 companies. You’ll find a story relevant to your project and its needs somewhere within our dozens of case studies.
Evil Martians has partnered with Teleport since 2020, engineering enterprise-ready features for their open-source infrastructure access platform. Our engineering and design teams work across the platform – from architecting the plugin ecosystem and deployment strategies to transforming their documentation into a powerful growth driver with Next.js. Combining deep Go expertise with product thinking, we continue as their technical partner driving R&D initiatives as well as building core features that support their growth.
Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator. Total funding: $170M
Cloud Infrastructure
Developer Tools
Software Development
Product Launch
Go
Wasm
Jamstack
"We loved how the Martian engineering team worked on Teleport plugins: everything from the way they communicated and approached the project to their code quality, their curiosity, and their striving to figure out the right way to build things—that left a strong impression on me." - Sasha Klizhentas, CTO, Teleport
Since 2021, Evil Martians has collaborated with Playbook to build a next-generation cloud platform for creatives that serves 700,000+ users worldwide. Our engineering teams have developed their core platform features – from ML-powered visual search and AI-assisted file management to Figma plugin and third-party integrations. Our relationship deepened when Playbook acquired CanFY, an AI assistant platform we incubated, bringing advanced image recognition and natural language processing capabilities to their creative ecosystem.
Total funding: $22M+
Business and Professional Tools
Software Development
Backend
Serverless
Rails
Figma
Since 2021, Evil Martians has worked with StackBlitz to scale their browser-based development platform that serves 2M+ developers monthly. Our engineering teams contribute across their infrastructure—from core WebContainer technology to enterprise features and bolt.new, their pioneering AI-powered IDE. Combining deep expertise in browser technologies with scalable architecture, we continue as their technical partner in transforming how developers build and deploy applications.
Total funding: $8M
Backed by GV
Developer Tools
Software Development
Performance
Rails
React
WebSocket
Our projects are used by builders of major web services and emerging startups. There’s a good chance that you’ve encountered or built an online product that was powered by one of our open source projects.
120 projects with 171K+ stars and climbing!
One of the most popular and most depended-on npm libraries, PostCSS transforms CSS using an extensible plugins API. With more than 200 plugins, developers can lint CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, and more.
300M+ monthly downloads
Used in Webpack and Stylelint
Frontend PostCSS CSS JavaScript
A data fetcher library for Nano Stores state manager.
Frontend TypeScript JavaScript React
We’ve got articles, talks, and podcast appearances with diverse content for junior and experienced developers, case studies for startup founders and managers, and thorough technical deep dives into unexpected terrain. No matter where you’re coming from, you’re certain to gain some insight here, whether it’s more practical, or something that really takes you for a ride.
Attention: An Important Brand Update From The Evil Martians Blog
April 1, 2025 Blog Post
Hey developer tool teams, don’t copy these copywriting clichés!
Hey developer tool teams, don’t copy these copywriting clichés!
March 26, 2025 Blog Post
Developer Marketing
Developer Community
Level up for UX: Design lessons from video games
June 28, 2018 Blog Post
Devs in mind 2025: how to design interfaces for developer tools
Devs in mind 2025: how to design interfaces for developer tools
January 14, 2025 Blog Post
By Andrey Novikov
Ruby in Japan vs. the World
Mar 22, 2025 Osaka Web Designers and Developers Meetup Talk
By Andrey Novikov
Generating OpenAPI schema from serializers throughout the Rails stack
Feb 26, 2025 Kyobashi.rb Talk
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