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DevTool to Ecosystem & Category Creation

How to evolve from a single developer tool to a developer ecosystem and create new categories. Covers platform strategy, ecosystem development, partnership timing, category creation, and the transition from standalone product to multi-product platform. Drawn from practitioners at Zapier, Auth0, Stripe, and others.
Built from what these operators shared
  • Ali Rayl
  • Ed Anuff
  • Photo of Chris Bach
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Erica Brescia, Sid Sijbrandij, Mike Knoop, Ali Rayl, Ed Anuff, Chris Bach
Free with Crucible
DevTool to Ecosystem & Category Creation
Built from two library resources

What a skill is

A skill is a set of working instructions your agent loads when you need it, built from the strategies operators shared in the Heavybit Library. It guides the work and you still do it. Heavybit reads and approves every skill before it ships, and keeps updating skills as new content enters the Library. Skills are plain text, so you or your agent can read any skill in full before acting on it. Your agent decides how to apply a skill, so check its work; if a skill gets something wrong, ask your agent to report it or email platform@heavybit.com.

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  1. Add the endpoint below to your harness: Claude Code, Codex, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, or another that supports MCP.
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  3. Tell your agent what you're working on. It finds the right skill, or you can ask for one by name.
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Built from the Heavybit Library

The operators behind this skill shared what they know in these talks, podcasts, and articles. Every one is free in the Heavybit Library.

  • Video

From DevTool to Dev Ecosystem

JUN 12, 2019With Delyn Simons, Mike Knoop, Erica Brescia, and Sid Sijbrandij
Few growth-stage companies succeed on a sole product offering. This panel of successful Co-Founders explores how successful B2B companies go from delivering a single developer tool, to building massive ecosystems.
From DevTool to Dev Ecosystem
Video

From DevTool to Dev Ecosystem

Watch45 MIN
  • Video

Category Leader Essentials with Netlify, Slack, DataStax

JUL 28, 2021With Ali Rayl, Chris Bach, Ed Anuff, and Paige Paquette
In this DevGuild: Software-Defined Movements finale, our panelists discuss how companies with vibrant developer communities become category leaders.
Category Leader Essentials with Netlify, Slack, DataStax
Video

Category Leader Essentials with Netlify, Slack, DataStax

Watch38 MIN

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