Resource: The Best DevTools Pitches of All Time

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Much of this was sourced from too many folks to thank on HN and Twitter.

The Best of the Best

Ruby on Rails: 15 minute demo by DHH - inspired Elixir Liveview demo
Docker: 5 minute demo by Solomon Hykes
Twilio: Jeff Lawson short story, John Britton 6 min live demo - modern version
Terraform: Armon Dadgar pitching Terraform in 18 minutes on a whiteboard

Historical Best

Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos: wiki, 1h 40min video
Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle: 54min talk
Visual Basic 1.0: 3 minute demo by Bill Gates
Steve Jobs NeXT demo of interface builder and enterprise object framework (HN comment, Video) and of course the 10 minute iPhone pitch
Jeff Han demo of multitouch 6 months before iPhone demo

Platforms

AWS: Jeff Bezos pitching EC2 in 5 minutes, and AWS in 40mins, and Jeff Barr's We Build Muck So You Don't Have To blogpost (modern version is "undifferentiated heavy lifting")
- Honorable mention: 12 min Q&A (can we find a better link?). On S3: "It is hard to come up with a web application that doesn't need to remember things".
Google Cloud Spanner: HN Recollection
Google BigQuery: Felipe Hoffa examples (can we find better links?)
Stripe: "7 lines of code" (demo link needed)
Netlify: blogpost and 40min conf talk
Heroku: 12factor.net and git push heroku master
Cloudflare: TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 16min pitch
Firebase: Googler Recollection, HN Launch

OSS

React: Rethinking Best Practices by Pete Hunt.
- Compare with original Jordan Walke talk - Pete Hunt's retrospective
- honorable mention - David Nolen's Introducing Om
- and Hackflow
Next.js: Guillermo Rauch - 34min talk at React Conf
Svelte: 35min conf talk
Node (48min JSConf 2010) and Deno (26min JSConf 2018)
Redux: 30 min React Europe 2015
Meteor: 10 minute demo
MongoDB: Great recent pitch from Mark Porter - historical pitch needed (pls recommend)
Kubernetes: the Kelsey Hightower "Tetris" demo - 44mins
Kafka: the Log blogpost by Jay Kreps
TypeScript: just the website in 2022 is convincing to some
Rust: "Fearless concurrency", or the Sawstop safe table saw as Steve Klabnik put it
MongoDB: Good podcast pitch

jQuery landing page honorary mention.

AI/ML

OpenAI Codex: 30 min live demo creating a fully functioning game in JavaScript using just plain old english.
GitHub Copilot: definitive demo needed
Explosion AI: blogpost - convincing