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!
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.
Martian Design Sprint
Jump start product development: in as little as two weeks, we'll outline a prioritized scope and prepare development-ready designs. Rapidly turn an idea into a functional MVP and hit the market as soon as possible.
Site Reliability Engineering
Even if your project is just beginning to gain altitude, or if you’re already stuck in orbit with complex infrastructures, the Evil Martians Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is primed to safeguard your IT operations making them reliable, optimized, and automated—taking you to new heights.
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.
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.
- 114
- projects with
- 155K+
- stars and climbing
- Martian Mono
Martian Mono
Martian Mono is a monospaced version of the Martian Grotesk for code style design. It's the first Evil Martians open source typeface on the market.- 2
- axes of variation
- 1.9K
- stars
- Visibility.js
Visibility.js
A JavaScript library that can detect if a browser tab is currently active for a user.
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.
- Pen, paper, IDE: a DevTool Founder’s early-stage product design guide
Pen, paper, IDE: a DevTool Founder’s early-stage product design guide
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- Care beyond code: 7 best design practices for frontend developers
Care beyond code: 7 best design practices for frontend developers
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- Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
Variable fonts in real life: how to use and love them
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- Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora
Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora
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