Monica Lent

Blogging for Devs - Grow your blog as a developer without an existing audience

Blogging for Devs is a free email course and newsletter that helps you go from idea to distribution of one, excellent blog post. You'll learn about topics like the setup of your site, validating ideas, SEO, writing for an online audience, and distribution!

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Monica Lent
Hey everyone! I'm super excited to launch my first product on Product Hunt: Blogging for Devs. Blogging helped my career *so much* as a developer and maker. (Last year it even helped me fund my transition to building my own products full-time.) In the meantime, a lot of my friends in tech started asking me for advice about SEO, growing their email lists, and writing resonant articles. What I realized is that lots of developers — whether individual contributors, makers, managers, or founders — could benefit massively from blogging... If only the tools and techniques were tailored for them (instead of the typical "marketing" angle). That's why I started Blogging for Devs as a free email course and weekly newsletter. It was just meant to be my "pandemic side project". But I was totally blown away when over 1,250 people signed up in the first two weeks 🙀 It's been growing mostly by word-of-mouth since then. Besides the free 7-day email course, the project has expanded into a weekly newsletter, a blog with interviews and original articles, plus a growing community of devs who blog. The subscribers are super creative, driven, and already publishing amazing articles. I'm really excited to be on Product Hunt today! I'll be hanging out to answer any questions and hear your feedback and ideas. Thanks so much!
Tahir Awan
@monicalent congratulations on launch. I really like your newsletter and the community around it. Best of luck.
Monica Lent
@tahir_awan Thanks Tahir! I'm glad to have you in the community :)
Marie Denis
@monicalent Congrats on your launch Monica! I subscribed and already learned a lot! I really like that it's clear and straight to the point.
Monica Lent
@marie_dm_ Thanks so much Marie! I appreciate your support ^_^
Peter Thaleikis
Very inspiring @monicalent! Congrats on launching this really interesting course!
Szymon Adamiak
I just enrolled, your content seems both informative and unique. Congrats!
Monica Lent
@sadamiak Awesome Szymon, thanks so much! I hope you like it ^_^
Szymon Adamiak
@sadamiak @monicalent Yeah, I'm eagerly waiting for the next email :)
Michele Piccirillo
Congrats on the launch @monicalent! Big fan of your newsletter!
Monica Lent
@lordofthelake Thanks so much Michele! It makes me super happy to hear that. P.S. Remind me to tell you about the subject line capitalization A/B test I finally made 😁
Michele Piccirillo
@monicalent Yes! Data! 📊👩‍🔬
zwacky
Really great email course to learn a lot from! It's inspiring and ultimately convinced me to move my blog posts into my own hands. Cheers!
Monica Lent
@zwacky Thanks so much! Yes, we devs want control don't we 🤓
A-P Koponen
"Blogging for Devs" is one of the few newsletters that I actually want to read in my inbox. The topics are highly interesting and the quality of the content is great! Monica clearly puts a lot of effort into the emails.
Monica Lent
@apkoponen I am so honored to hear that, thank you! It makes me really happy that the quality and effort comes across. Thanks for sharing your feedback 😊
Catalin Pit
I finished this course, and Monica did a great job. I highly recommend it.
Monica Lent
@catalinmpit Thank you Catalin, I really appreciate your support so far!
Christian Kasilag
This newsletter is a very informative course on blogging from a more technical perspective. It's written in a way that is both highly detailed and easy to learn from, even as a beginner, which I really appreciate!
Monica Lent
@christian_kasilag Thanks Christian! Makes me happy that the more technical perspective resonates with you :) I'm really looking forward to seeing how your blogs grow over the next months.
Zlatko Đurić
I've tried blogging a dozen times, sometimes with meager success. I wanted to try again, and saw this email course and signed up. As a developer, it made a lot of sense. Blogging for myself is one thing. Blogging for others involves a lot more, and with Monica's course, I've learned a lot about it.
Monica Lent
@zlatko_duric Zlatko it makes me super happy that you learned something from the course 😊 Thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback.
jvlobo
Super good resource and healthy community around it!! Congrats Monica 💪🏾
Monica Lent
@jvlob Thanks for your support Lobo! I'm grateful to have you in the community :)
Christopher Samiullah
Great newsletter - highly recommended!
Monica Lent
@christopher_samiullah Thanks Chris! Though you forgot to warn the Australians about my usage of the word "rooting" 🤣
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