Good Wigs & Golden Paths: Dev Tools in the AI Era with Victoria Melnikova
Kate Holterhoff talks with Victoria Melnikova, head of new business at Evil Martians, about what product market fit looks like for developer tools in 2026. Drawing on research by Evil Martians CEO Irina Nazarova, Melnikova argues PMF is a spectrum, not a switch. Product signals and revenue signals are separate things, and the gap between them tells you where to focus. Her advice to most early stage founders? Your product is probably fine, go do sales. Their conversation covers why dev tools resist the golden path metrics of generic SaaS (what's the golden path in Photoshop?), why agent…
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