- pr Score outbound on first-party usage, not bought intent
Building an outbound or expansion motion for a self-serve developer product, or evaluating community- and intent-data vendors.
- ex Juggler launches on reputation and a runnable repo
A solo, unfunded open-source launch topped Hacker News because the maker's decades of public credibility did the marketing and the artifact was runnable the moment you hit the repo.
- hire Advocu
The ambassador-programme platform behind Google Developer Experts, Docker and Chainlink, sold with implementation support rather than as pure self-serve software.
- hire DevRel Bridge
Marcos Placona, 12+ years of DevRel at Twilio and Circle, co-author of a developer-ecosystems framework book, with Sourcegraph and DigitalOcean among the named clients.
- hire Hackmamba
50+ engineering-first clients including Cloudinary, Auth0, Netlify, Appwrite and Sourcegraph, drawn from a stated 1,500-strong technical creator network.
- hire Hoopy
Runs DevRelCon, the field's longest-running conference series, and DeveloperRelations.com, with named references from Heroku and the Xero developer platform.
- hire Jono Bacon
22+ years of community strategy, author of *People Powered* (HarperCollins) and *The Art of Community* (O'Reilly), selling strategy, coaching and training rather than delivery.
- hire Major League Hacking
A stated five million developers, 1,000+ events a year across 100 countries, with Google, GitHub and Snowflake among the partners buying into the programme.
- hire Plug.dev
A managed network of coding creators with audiences from 52K to 1.8M subscribers, running cross-channel campaigns on Reddit and daily.dev, with Neon, Dub and Descope among the named clients.
- sk developer-listening: hear the rooms you are not in
A repeatable sweep of developer conversation across Reddit, Hacker News, Discord and issue trackers, turned into notes a DevRel team can act on.
- 07-18 The community-signal category just got its third acquirer in eight months
Zoom's purchase of Common Room is the third go-to-market intelligence roll-up since December — and the community-signal tools DevRel built on are being repriced as buyer intent for outbound.