Console’s mission is to help developers do their best work. Whether reviewing
the best tools in our devtools newsletter, interviewing technical experts on our
podcast, investing in early-stage developer-first startups, or helping
developers find the best place to work, Console has grown quickly to be a
trusted, independent resource for experienced developers.
Console Co-founders David Mytton & Max Jennings.
David Mytton is CEO of Console. In 2009, he founded and was CEO of Server
Density, a SaaS cloud monitoring startup acquired in 2018 by edge compute
platform, StackPath. He is also researching sustainable
computing in the Department of
Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, and has been a developer for
15+ years.
Max has 20+ years tech experience scaling and investing in start-ups with
extensive product and marketing experience. Previous start-ups he co-founded
have been acquired by Retailmenot Inc, Expedia and GCAP Media. Most recently he
co-founded popular family app Hoop, chosen by Apple as App of the Year twice.
What we do
We spend all day every day immersed in the world of development and bring years
of experience to understanding the needs of experienced developers. It’s our job
to do the filtering, so developers can stay up-to-date with the tools,
technologies, services, and places to work that matter, and focus on what they
do best. Building.
Console Devtools Newsletter
Console started in early-2021 as a weekly newsletter for experienced
developers to discover the best tools and beta releases. Now at 26k+
subscribers, 77% with >5 years coding experience, we continue to
review the best developer tools, track the latest beta and
early access releases, profile interesting companies, interview
technical experts on our podcast, and connect our audience to the
people behind the code.
We pride ourselves on being transparent in our editorial approach and have
strict selection criteria for everything we review. All
potential partners who wish to sponsor a review must meet our selection criteria
before we will work with them. Partners are able to choose the date of their
review, which will appear first in the newsletter, but they do not get to
influence or even read the review before it is published.
Jobs Console
In addition to helping developers find the best tools, we profile
how the most interesting companies run their engineering teams. We believe that
the best developers rarely look for a new job, but they may be tempted by
particularly interesting opportunities. This is where Jobs
Console comes in - a devtools specific jobs board,
with interesting jobs featured in the newsletter each week.
Devtools investing
Our CEO, David, is an active angel
investor in early-stage startups where
developers are the primary user. If we’d recommend it to the developers
subscribed to the newsletter, we’d also consider
investing.
Most of our investments are in the US, but we have >30
investments all over the
world.
