Evil Martians
Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products
- 2/3
- of our startup clients raised investments in Series A and B within 1–3 years
- 50+
- engineers and designers located in the USA, Europe, Japan, and across the globe
- 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!
Backend Development
Maintainability, scalability and productivity are the three pillars of our backend expertise that spans over 18 years of helping fast-paced companies build, ship and grow. Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Rust, and Elixir are in our stack. What about Python? Sometimes!
Performance Optimization
Scalability problems are the good problems to have! But they can be painful. We will analyze possible bottlenecks within your code and infrastructure, propose a prioritized backlog of improvements, and bring them to life. We'll prepare your product for the upcoming user surges, and make it reliable, resource-efficient, and scalable.
Product Design
Since 2011, Martian product designers have helped launch and improve products for over ten startups every year. Beyond crafting top-notch UIs, our designers take on product ownership roles, assisting founders with visioning, release plans, and iterating based on user feedback. Our approach increases your chances both of building a product that people love and achieving market fit. Tines ($90M+), Iterative ($25M+), Ghost ($15M), and HTTPie ($6.5M) are just a few products originating from our design department.
Frontend Development
We often work on products built entirely on, or primarily around, frontend tech. The world of frontend moves fast, but our vast open source experience, ability to balance rapid performance with advanced UX/UI, and close work with designers ensure we can contribute and keep updated with new tech.
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.
- 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.
- 117
- projects with
- 166K+
- 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. - PostCSS-modules
PostCSS-modules
A PostCSS plugin to use CSS Modules everywhere: not only at the client side.
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.
- Hey, AnyCable speaking! Needing help with a Twilio-OpenAI connection?
Hey, AnyCable speaking! Needing help with a Twilio-OpenAI connection?
- Growing pains and a dose of Go: real-time features for this Rails app
Growing pains and a dose of Go: real-time features for this Rails app
- How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app
How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app
- Figma Auto Layout: Practical tips for dynamic designs
Figma Auto Layout: Practical tips for dynamic designs