Evil Martians
Evil Martians is a product development consultancy that works with startups and established businesses while also creating open source-based products & services
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!
Sprints to Solutions
Startups requiring a proof of concept can benefit from our guidance in rapid sprints. We not only validate the scope of development: we can also provide a visualization of the basic User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI)—as well as creating a “live” mockup that can be shared with investors and clients alike; shape MVP scope and roadmap; and discover and resolve application performance bottlenecks.
User Interface Audit
The Evil Martians team has launched a new service—User Interface audit! A UI audit is an examination of a web or mobile app's user interface that checks for compliance with more than a hundred criteria that, if met, will help increase your app's conversion rates, enhance user experience, and make the UI more accessible and inclusive.
Product Launch
The Evil Martians team has a proven track record of building and launching successful products. We worked with local startups transforming into unicorns, small teams becoming market leaders, giant businesses releasing profitable spin-offs, and many others. If you’re pivoting or experiencing explosive growth, we are here to help you get the desired results.
Full Cycle Software Development
Beyond the product launch, we act as an engineering partner and deliver software and key business features you can depend upon. We are committed to helping your business grow as we tackle complex technical problems efficiently, ensuring that your technical stack improves and accelerates with 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 teamed up with Teleport to design and integrate plugins to let engineers approve or deny permission requests via Slack, Jira, Mattermost, PagerDuty, or GitLab.Backedby Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator$170Mtotal 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.
- Lowkey.ggLowkey.gg is a gaming startup that helps esports teams to train and study competitors’ strategies. The Martian team brought Lowkey’s app CPU usage from over 30% to less than 5% while recording a Full HD video with 60 FPS.$8.6Mtotal fundingBackedby Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
The Evil Martians team was extremely helpful and professional throughout the entire process. Their developers are some of the most technically skilled people that we’ve worked with.
- 2UMartians helped 2U achieve the strategic goal of reorganizing its microservices architecture by safe migration GraphQL API to Apollo Federation with zero downtime and fewer expenses.$427Mtotal funding225Kstudents
Evil Martians have been instrumental in guiding many of 2U’s Academic-Product teams through a difficult transition to new technology and paradigms as we migrated from a schema-stitched implementation to Apollo’s Federation.
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 OSS projects.
- imgproxy
imgproxy
imgproxy is a fast and secure image processing server. It resizes and processes images on the fly, replacing all the processing code inside your web application, and is an indispensable tool allowing developers to transform images from a remote source. The guiding principles behind imgproxy are security, speed, and simplicity.17M+total downloadsBillionsof images have already been processed
- Hivemind
Hivemind
Advanced Procfile-based process manager to run several processes from your Procfile in a single terminal.
- Clean Publish
Clean Publish
A tool for removing configuration files, fields, and development scripts from package.json before publishing to npm.
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.
- Realtime text analysis with Word Tagger: recipe reader, part 2
Realtime text analysis with Word Tagger: recipe reader, part 2
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- One does not simply design: designers as product owners
One does not simply design: designers as product owners
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- Figma Auto Layout: Practical tips for dynamic designs
Figma Auto Layout: Practical tips for dynamic designs
- Future of colors in CSS: why I moved to oklch() from rgb(), hex, and hsl()
Future of colors in CSS: why I moved to oklch() from rgb(), hex, and hsl()
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