# Evil Martians: Product Development Consulting for Devtools Startups

> Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.

- URL: https://evilmartians.com/devtools

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# Product Development Consulting for Dev Tools Startups

## Our services

- [Ruby on Rails consulting](https://evilmartians.com/services/ruby-on-rails-consulting)
- [Frontend & real-time](https://evilmartians.com/services/real-time)
- [Design for devtools](https://evilmartians.com/services/design-developer-tool)
- [Platform engineering](https://evilmartians.com/services/sre)
- [Developer marketing](https://evilmartians.com/services/tech-marketing)

## Our clients

- [HTTPie](https://evilmartians.com/clients/httpie)
- [Teleport](https://evilmartians.com/clients/teleport)
- [StackBlitz](https://evilmartians.com/clients/stackblitz)
- [Certora](https://evilmartians.com/clients/certora)
- [Tines](https://evilmartians.com/clients/tines)
- [Iterative](https://evilmartians.com/clients/iterative)

## Open source we developed

- **autoprefixer** (21+K GitHub stars): Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules by Can I Use
- **postcss** (28+K GitHub stars): Transforming styles with JS plugins
- **nanoid** (22+K GitHub stars): A tiny (130 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for javaScript
- **imgproxy** (7+K GitHub stars): Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images

- **150,000** stars on GitHub across all projects built by Martians
- **25 Billion** downloads of our projects

### Let’s see how we can help

## UX Design

- UX Design
- Web, Mobile and Desktop
- Rapid Experimentation
- User Interviews
- Analytics

Let’s start with a design sprint.

- Price: $12K
- Duration: 2 weeks

## Real-time and Collaborative UI

- Collaboration mode for your users
- Scalable real-time updates
- Real-time IoT data processing
- Action Cable and Hotwire at scale

Let’s start with a proof of concept solution.

- Price: $18K
- Duration: 3 weeks

    Powered by AnyCable, a scalable real-time framework built by Evil Martians

## Performance Bottlenecks

- Backend scalability
- Frontend perfomance
- Complex upgrades
- Refactoring legacy applications

Let’s start with a performance audit.

- Price: $6K
- Duration: 1 week

## Infrastructure Optimization

- CI/CD setup
- Auto-scaling
- Observability
- Cloud migration
- Cloud cost optimization

Let’s fix one problem in your current setup.

- Price: $6K
- Duration: 1 week

## Technical Marketing

- Strategy
- Technical articles
- Content distribution
- Documentation

Let’s start with 2–3 articles.

- Price: $6K
- Duration: 2 weeks

### One more thing…

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[Evil Martians](https://evilmartians.com) is a developer tools consultancy founded in 2006. Creators of PostCSS, imgproxy, and 100+ open source projects with 25 billion downloads. [Book a call with us](https://evilmartians.com/contact-us).