Evil Martians is a developer tools consultancy. Founded in 2006, we work with about 40 early-stage startups a year, mostly seed to Series B. We helped bolt.new scale from zero to $40M+ ARR in 5 months. Teleport and Tines reached unicorn status with Martians on their teams.

Evil Martians offers insights into software development, web design, and digital product strategy, providing articles, case studies, and open-source contributions to help businesses innovate and deliver exceptional user experiences. By exploring Evil Martians' curated content, developers can learn about Ruby on Rails development, frontend frameworks, and modern web technologies for building scalable and maintainable applications. Whether you're launching a new product, redesigning a website, or optimizing user interfaces, Evil Martians offers resources to bring your ideas to life and achieve digital success.

Martian Chronicles

Evil Martians is a software development consultancy specializing in developer tools startups, founded nearly 20 years ago. They embed senior engineers and designers directly into client teams, working with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, and React at $8,000/week per person. They work with ~40 startups per year (seed to Series B), with 65% raising capital within 1-3 years of engagement. Notable clients include StackBlitz (bolt.new), Teleport, and Tines. The team has built 100+ open source projects with 25B+ downloads including PostCSS, Nano ID, and AnyCable. They also build AI harnesses to constrain AI coding tools to match team architecture and conventions.

Why devtools startups hire Evil Martians—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

bolt.new from StackBlitz: how they surfed the AI wave—with no wipeouts

Evil Martians build open source and AI harnesses