The Beat Studio
Two hosts on what moved in developer marketing this week: launches, pricing pages, homepages and go-to-market at the companies that sell to developers. Every claim rests on a public source listed with the episode.
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The Billing CEO Who Tried to Kill the Token and Kept It
A billing CEO whose company Stripe now owns tried to kill token billing and kept it, and says why. Will reads the post and grades it; Brian asks whose argument it is, and answers with GitHub's credits. Then DigitalOcean puts a subscription on the same meter, and Google's new Gemini model launches at a price with no end date.
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Postman Rewrote Its Homepage for Agents. Sourcegraph's Didn't Last.
Postman rewrote its homepage this week to speak to AI agents first: the first button now installs Postman for your agent. Sourcegraph had already gone agents-first, then put up an even harder line for about a day and took it back. Brian reads the pages like letters and asks who they are addressed to now; Will says what the growth team in that room was thinking.
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PostHog Says Nobody Pays. Raycast Moved the Meter.
PostHog, the product analytics company, now tells you on its homepage that almost nobody pays it, and its own site gives three different numbers for how few. Raycast kept every price and moved the meter underneath its AI instead. Will thinks free on the front page is the strongest positioning in devtools; Brian thinks it is a bill that arrives later.
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GitHub's Best Ad Is a Bug List
GitHub's best ad this month is a list of bugs it found with its own open-source agent. Postman turned one laptop's agent traffic into a data report. And a Rust rewrite's price tag became the headline. Will thinks showing the work is the best devtools marketing there is; Brian wants to know whether anyone who signs a purchase order reads it.
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