Open Source Startup Podcast

E163: Using Feedback Loops to Optimize LLM-Based Applications

E162: The AI Code Editor War with Zed

This podcast interviews Nathan Sobo, CEO and founder of Zed, a next-generation code editor focused on high-performance collaboration and AI integration. The conversation traces Sobo's experience building Atom at GitHub, highlighting lessons learned (e.g., the importance of prioritizing performance early in development...

E161: Reimagining Python Notebooks with Marimo

E160: Open Source Secrets Management with Infisical

E159: Innovating on Distributed SQL Databases with Yugabyte

E158: Open Source Diagramming and Charting with Mermaid Chart

This podcast interviews Andrew Firestone (CEO) and Knut Sveidqvist (CTO) of Mermaid Chart, a text-based diagramming software built from an open-source project. The discussion traces the origin story of Mermaid, its unexpected growth, and the subsequent creation of Mermaid Chart, highlighting the challenges and strateg...

E157: Build Your Own Production-Grade AI CoPilots With Copilotkit

E156: Code-First Product Integrations with Ampersand

E155: Taking on Elasticsearch - the ParadeDB Story

E154: Bringing OpenTelemetry to Mobile Observability

E153: Dead Simple Dev Environments with Daytona

E152: Taking on Bitly with Dub.co - an Open Source Alternative for Link Management

E151: Taking on DBT by Combining Data Transformation with a Query Engine

E150: Fast Analytics with Metabase

E149: One AI Agent to Rule Them All?

E148: Software Refactoring in the Age of AI

E147: The Over-complication of API Management - What Went Wrong?

E146: Inventing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

E145: Bootstrapping an Open Source Monitoring Platform

E144: How to Straddle Developers and Security Engineers