Evil Martians
Evil Martians is a product development consultancy that works with startups and established businesses while also creating open source-based products & services
- 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!
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 108
- projects with
- 152K+
- stars and climbing
- Astrograph
Astrograph
Lowers the entry threshold to the Stellar ecosystem and makes it possible to develop Stellar-based applications in hours instead of weeks—significantly reducing Stellar application development costs and time-to-market.- Winner
- of Stellar Community Fund
- 108
- stars
- Browserslist
Browserslist
Defines and shares the list of target browsers between various frontend build tools.
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.
- It’s dangerous to go alone: take our guide to the “IDEAL” HTTP client!
It’s dangerous to go alone: take our guide to the “IDEAL” HTTP client!
- It deserved its own tome: Layered Design and the Extended Rails Way
It deserved its own tome: Layered Design and the Extended Rails Way
- How to avoid tricky async state manager pitfalls in React
How to avoid tricky async state manager pitfalls in React
- Squash N+1 queries early with n_plus_one_control test matchers for Ruby and Rails
Squash N+1 queries early with n_plus_one_control test matchers for Ruby and Rails
- Threads, callbacks, and execution context in Ruby
Threads, callbacks, and execution context in Ruby
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