{"podcast":{"title":"Dev Propulsion Labs","slug":"dev-propulsion-labs-6704290","podcast_index_feed_id":6704290,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/dpl/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dpl","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/dpl/20231130_121111_9325ba0ccf1fa632d70f120479a001f9.jpg","author":"Evil Martians","episode_count":36,"summary":"Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools, hosted by Victoria Melnikova. Victoria is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, working with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. She sits down face-to-face in San Francisco with founders behind companies like Cursor, Sentry, Supabase, Resend, CodeRabbit, WorkOS, Elixir, and PlanetScale to talk about what actually makes developer-focused businesses work. Dev Propulsion Labs is produced by Evil Martians, a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Enjoyed by 45K+ listeners.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290"},"episode":{"title":"Jason Bosco on building a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches without VC funding","slug":"jason-bosco-on-building-a-profitable-search-engine-serving-10-billion-searches-without-vc-funding","published_at":"2025-08-19T20:06:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/jason-bosco-on-building-a-profitable-search-engine-serving-10-billion-searches-without-vc-funding","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dpl/2174565","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/239660/2174565/dpl/2025_08_19_19_38_33_9338dd9d-c6dc-4262-ae13-0744562c51d1.mp3","summary":"Jason Bosco, CEO and co-founder of TypeSense, shares how he and his co-founder built a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches monthly without taking VC funding. From Dollar Shave Club VP of Engineering to bootstrapped founder, Jason reveals the unconventional path to building sustainable developer tools. Key insights from this episode: \"If it is hard for you as a founder to convince someone to pay you, it's never gonna get easier from there.\" Find what people are willing to pay for early - don't build first and monetize later. \"We're opinionated and we want search to work out of the box right from the get-go.\" TypeSense chose simplicity over configurability, targeting 80% of use cases with zero-config search versus Elasticsearch's thousands of parameters. \"We don't want the gamble on TypeSense the company to end up affecting TypeSense the product.\" Jason explains why they chose profitability over VC funding to build a multi-generational product without the pressure of 10x returns. \"Doing dev tools in closed source is like playing it on hard mode.\" Open source creates better feedback loops with developers, leading to faster product iteration and stronger community adoption. Links: - TypeSense: https://typesense.org/ - TypeSense Cloud: https://cloud.typesense.org/ - Jason Bosco on X: https://x.com/jasonbosco - Evil Martians on X: https://x.com/evilmartians - Victoria Melnikova on X: https://x.com/vmelnikova_en Evil Martians is the go-to agency for early-stage developer tools startups: https://evilmartians.com/devtools","meta_description":"Jason Bosco, CEO and co-founder of TypeSense, shares how he and his co-founder built a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches monthly withou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2236,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/episodes/jason-bosco-on-building-a-profitable-search-engine-serving-10-billion-searches-without-vc-funding/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/jason-bosco-on-building-a-profitable-search-engine-serving-10-billion-searches-without-vc-funding.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}