E172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster

Open Source Startup Podcast

Aviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear, the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote environment. Their project, mirrord, has 4K stars on GitHub and is loved by users at companies like SentinelOne, Flexport, and Run.ai.

In this episode, we dig into:

• How traditional staging environments create friction for cloud developers

• Their unique approach that allows for concurrency - and educating the market on it

• How open source helped build trust with big, enterprise customers early

• The story behind their first big customer win

• Focusing on a killer, fast time to value implementation

• Introducing monetization early, and how their products align with open source mirrord