Blogging for Devs

Grow your blog as a developer without an existing audience

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Grow your blog as a developer without an existing audience

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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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Blogging for Devs

Maker

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!

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6yr ago

@monicalent congratulations on launch. I really like your newsletter and the community around it. Best of luck.

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@tahir_awan Thanks Tahir! I'm glad to have you in the community :)

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6yr ago

Women Make

@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.

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@marie_dm_ Thanks so much Marie! I appreciate your support ^_^

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6yr ago

ClubLink

Very inspiring @monicalent! Congrats on launching this really interesting course!

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6yr ago

Hey! Great project, just wondering, where do users usually write their blogs? Is it on a platform like medium or can they do it on your website?

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@bubbleb2b Hey! Thanks for the comment. No, people can't host their blogs on my platform. I actually encourage them to use their own domain name so they keep the benefit of any backlinks, and set up the canonical URL properly before considering syndication. Anecdotally, most people seem to self-host using static site generators (probably because a lot of subscribers come from a web development background like me). But plenty of people also post on Dev.to, a bit of Medium, and some on Hashnode. Did that answer your question? I'm not sure where they self-host, I'd imagine it's places like Zeit or Netlify though.

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6yr ago

Love the landing page design Monica! You got me interested :). I have an important question though, do you track your email subscribers (like open rates, clicks, etc.)? I am more privacy oriented and I find this information is missing on the page.

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@strzibnyj Hey Josef, thanks for the comment. I use ConvertKit so yes, those things are tracked automatically. AFAIK there's no way to opt out, sorry :(

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6yr ago

Swarmia

"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.

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@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 😊

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6yr ago

Notyfy

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!

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@zwacky Thanks so much! Yes, we devs want control don't we 🤓

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6yr ago

smol developer

i joined the original B4D cohort and saw Monica bootstrap her own course to 1k people in 2 weeks - dogfooding in the realest, most skin-in-the-game way! much respect and even as an experienced blogger i learned a lot. thank you for sharing this.

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@swyx Thanks for your continued support, Shawn. It's my pleasure to learn from you on the reg!

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6yr ago

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.

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6yr ago

Blogging for Devs

Maker

@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.

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6yr ago

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