Evil Martians
We design and develop high performance developer tools that scale
- 65%
- of our clients raise Series A or B within 1–3 years
- 8
- startups grew from seed to unicorn with our help
- 25B+
- total downloads of our open source projects
Tackling your challenges together
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!
We’ve worked with clients who are pivoting or experiencing explosive growth
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.
- TeleportEvil 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
- $170M
- total funding
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
- PlaybookSince 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.
- $22M+
- total funding
- StackBlitzSince 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.
- $8M
- total funding
- Backed
- by GV
Open Source is in the Martian DNA
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
- 172K+
- stars and climbing
- CanFY
CanFY
CanFY is an AI assistant designed specifically for professional tools. We started this project as an early backer and product creator. In 2023, our client, Playbook, took up the initiative and acquired CanFY to enrich their platform with visual search capabilities.
We’re constantly sharing knowledge on our blog and at events worldwide
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.
- Let there be docs! Generating an OpenAPI schema across the Rails stack
Let there be docs! Generating an OpenAPI schema across the Rails stack
- Attention: An Important Brand Update From The Evil Martians Blog
Attention: An Important Brand Update From The Evil Martians Blog
- Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora
Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora
- The SDK Imperative: why developer tools live or die by their SDKs
The SDK Imperative: why developer tools live or die by their SDKs
- Defying Front-End Inertia: Inertia.js on Rails
Defying Front-End Inertia: Inertia.js on Rails
Tropical on Rails
