Open Source Startup Podcast

Developer Tooling

Episode 173: Feature Flagging with OpenFeature

Andrew Norris is Co-Founder & CEO of DevCycle , the leading feature flagging platform based on the OpenFeature project. OpenFeature provides a standard for...

April 14, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster

Aviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear , the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote...

April 7, 2025

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 171: How Companies Like Block Build Viral Open Source Projects

Manik Surtani is Head of Open Source and Bradley Axen is Principal Engineer at Block. Manik was key to launching Block's Open Source Programs Office and...

April 3, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 170: From Idea to Working Web App Using Only Python with Reflex

Nikhil Rao is Co-Founder of Reflex , the open source framework to build and deploy web apps in python. Their project, also called reflex, has over 22K stars...

March 25, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 169: Building New Standards for Observability - Lightstep & OpenTelemetry

Ben Sigelman is the Co-Founder & CEO of observability platform Lightstep as well as Co-Creator of open source observability frameworks OpenTracing and...

March 19, 2025

Episode 168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealDB , the next generation serverless cloud database for modern applications. Their open source...

March 4, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 167: Taking on Network Security with a Zero Trust Approach with NetBird

Misha Bragin is the Founder & CEO of NetBird , the open source zero trust networking platform that allows companies and individuals to create secure private...

February 24, 2025

Developer Tooling Security Tooling

Episode 166: Making Open Source Reliable & Secure with Fossa

Kevin Wang is Founder & CEO of Fossa , the product security platform that automates compliance & security across open source third party code, suppliers, and...

February 19, 2025

Developer Tooling

Episode 165: Can DevTools Get to $1B ARR?

Max Stoiber is Co-Founder & CEO of Stellate , the GraphQL edge platform recently acquired by Shopify. In this episode, we discuss: Full episode here

February 10, 2025

Developer Tooling Security Tooling

Episode 164: Taking on Auth0 with Open Source Zitadel

Florian Forster is Co-Founder & CEO of Zitadel , the cloud security platform aiming to build the future of identity and access management. Their open source...

February 3, 2025