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 teamed up with Teleport to design and integrate plugins to let engineers approve or deny permission requests via Slack, Jira, Mattermost, PagerDuty, or GitLab.
- 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
- 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.
- $8.6M
- total funding
- Backed
- by 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.
Jesse Zhang
CEO, Lowkey.gg
- 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.
- $427M
- total funding
- 225K
- students
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.
Michael Schechter
Director of Engineering, 2U
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.
- 121
- projects with
- 166K+
- stars and climbing
- Logux
Logux
A new way to connect clients and server. Instead of sending HTTP requests (AJAX/REST), it synchronizes the log of operations between client, server, and other clients through WebSockets.- 10
- production projects
- 650
- stars
- Evil Blocks
Evil Blocks
A tiny JavaScript framework for web pages designed to split your app to separated blocks.
- Polychrom
Polychrom
A Figma plugin that ensures UI text is readable by leveraging the new APCA algorithm.
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.
- A letter to founders: join the local-first movement!
A letter to founders: join the local-first movement!
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- How to quickly (and weightlessly) convert Chrome extensions to Safari
How to quickly (and weightlessly) convert Chrome extensions to Safari
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- How to Make Your Open Source Project Popular
How to Make Your Open Source Project Popular
OpenSouthCode - Leveraging OpenAPI: Creating Effective RESTful API Specifications and Documentation
Leveraging OpenAPI: Creating Effective RESTful API Specifications and Documentation
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