Developer marketing examples

Marketing ideas from the best dev tools. In one place.

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Developer marketing examples library. 100+ examples I found and documented over the past year while running marketing at a dev tool startup.
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fmerian
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Jakub is one of the most insightful, inspiring marketing leaders I ever met and collaborated with. This collection of dev-first marketing examples is a goldmine. If you're a founder or marketer in a developer tool, bookmark this.
Jakub Czakon
@fmerian ,wow, love received ;)
Jakub Czakon
Hi, I am Jakub. I run marketing at a dev tool startup https://neptune.ai/ and I share learnings on dev tool marketing on my blog https://www.developermarkepear.com/. Whenever I'd start a new marketing project I found myself going over a list of 20+ companies that I knew could have done something well to “copy-paste” their approach as a baseline (think Tailscale, DigitalOCean, Vercel, Algolia, CircleCi, Supabase, Posthog, Auth0). So the past year and a half, I’ve been screenshotting examples of how companies that are good at dev marketing do things like pricing, landing page design, ads, videos, blog conversion ideas. And for each example, I added a note as to why I thought it was good. Now, it is ~140 examples organized by tags so you can browse all or get stuff for a particular topic. Hope it is helpful to some dev tool founders and marketers in here. wdyt? Also, I am always looking for new companies/marketing ideas to add to this, so if you’d like to share good examples I’d really appreciate it.
fmerian
Hunter
@jakub_czakon congratulations on the launch, Jakub! above all, what would be your favorite example, and why?
Jakub Czakon
@fmerian thanks! I think my favorite would have to be the CTA from cypress.io https://www.developermarkepear.c... It opened my eyes to thinking about developer-first CTAs. And when I saw it nobody did anything like that (afaik). Now I see it almost as a default for many open-source companies really. Bun would be a recent example I liked. https://www.developermarkepear.c...
Momcilo Popov
I learned a lot from the Developer Marketing Examples newsletter. Good luck, Jakub!
Jakub Czakon
@momciloo great to hear that! I have so much fun putting this together. Pear facts/jokes are the hardest though ;)
fmerian
Hunter
@momciloo out of curiosity -- what's your #1 key takeaway when marketing to developers?
Momcilo Popov
@fmerian Unlearn everything you know about marketing. Then do it in a humble, subtle and considering way.
Jakub Czakon
@fmerian @momciloo Funny enough when you unlearn and learn again from basics you end up doing things that at the core are good marketing. Just so different from 2005 b2b SaaS marketing right?
Heather Simpson
Thank you for pulling together this curated list of solid examples and inspiration from across the dev marketing space, I love how quick and easy it is to find the good stuff!
Jakub Czakon
@heathers700 thank you so much! Anything you'd like to see more of?
Heather Simpson
@jakub_czakon Already very broad but since you asked, would love more case study and product launch examples. Keep up the great work and thank you!
Jakub Czakon
@heathers700 on it ;) !
Monika Ambrozowicz
Amazing resource, bookmarked!
Jakub Czakon
@monika_ambrozowicz Thank you so much! Have another ~50 examples drafted (and half-baked ;)) so more to come for sure.
Jordan Chung
I have been looking for something like this for a long time, and it surely does take someone as experienced as Jakub to pull off such a project! Great work and I will be referencing this every day!
Jakub Czakon
@jordan_chung thank you so much!
Marko Zuzic
Great idea! Did you analyze what were they running as ads? Or tried running some of these examples as ads?
Jakub Czakon
@marko_zuzic we did run some of those things yeah. For example, LinkedIn testimonial ads are a really nice thing to do when building trust. We did manage to get a push in conversions from various things mentioned here both on the blog and website as well.
Jakub Czakon
@marko_zuzic Or did you mean run examples as ads for my blog/website?
Marko Zuzic
@jakub_czakon This, wanted to see what you tried to run as ads. :) I found Linkedin ads to be quite expensive. (high CPC, CPA)
Jakub Czakon
@marko_zuzic if you are looking for direct click -> view page -> signup/download then yeah expensive. But if you look at how they impact the entire funnel and look at down-channel metrics not just platform CTR the story is vastly different afaik. Provided of course that your dev audience is even there. That depends on the niche. Love how Justin Rowe from impactable explains linkedin ads strategy in a series of videos
btw. I wrote an article about running ads on devs that ended up being #1 on hackernews for half a day ;) https://www.developermarkepear.c...
Marko Zuzic
@jakub_czakon Thanks for the detailed response! I'll go through the materials you posted. :)
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