DevTools

also referred to as: dev tools · devtool

7 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 26, 2024 by Nicolas Dessaigne · across every show →

Everything said about DevTools, oldest first

Nov 26, 2024 positive
Insight
Dessaigne: Dev tool founders must be developers themselves
“And the key aspect of DevTool is that you are going to build a technical product for developers. Obviously, you need to be a developer yourself.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 2:15 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Insight
Dessaigne: Live demos are the best sales approach for dev tools
“You should show, not tell. Just do demonstrations. I think that's the best sales approach you can do for DevTool.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 23:17 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 negative
Insight
Early dev tool startups must use outbound; bottom-up inbound adoption fails
“DevTool co-founders often plan to have a bottom-up adoption model where individual developers are going to come inbound, try the product, and convert. Or maybe become their champions at bigger companies. Well, I have some bad news for you. Nobody knows you yet…”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 10:46 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Insight
LLMs can turn previously bad developer tool ideas into successful ones
“The bad ideas, the target ideas of yesterday could actually be possible to make successful now thanks to LLMs.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 2:59 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Opinion
Dessaigne: Hacker News is the best launch platform for dev tools
“The best place to launch for DevTools, I would argue, is Hacker News.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 12:04 How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taggar: Autonomous agents will select dev tools, spawning a parallel agent economy
“The agents are going to go out and choose Tools to use to build things, which is going to essentially create a whole economy of agents, like picking and choosing dev tools and maybe other like products and goods and services, who knows, but it will essentially…”
Harj Taggar Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 2:50 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
Apr 25, 2026 positive
Insight
Massad: Dev tools for non-developers require extensive video and educational content
“If you're building a dev tools for non-developers, you have to go above and beyond on content. You have to produce a lot of video content as well.”
Amjad Masad Apr 25, 2026 ▶ 17:36 Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
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