Developer Marketing Cheat Sheet

Role & Responsibilities

Developer Audience & Market Insight

  • Developer workflow research
  • Competitive + ecosystem intelligence
  • Community monitoring (GitHub, Reddit, Discord)
  • Search intent + documentation analytics
  • Developer persona + segmentation
  • Voice of Developer (VoD)

Strategic Foundations

  • Developer value pillars
  • Technical positioning
  • Buyer vs user definition
  • Use case + integration mapping
  • Developer-focused GTM strategy
  • Technical POV development

Messaging & Technical Narrative

  • Developer messaging frameworks
  • Architecture + workflow explanations
  • Technical landing page copy
  • Migration + comparison content
  • Diagrams + system breakdowns
  • Message validation with developers

Activation & Adoption

  • Tutorials, quickstarts, examples
  • Starter templates + repos
  • Onboarding optimization
  • Documentation alignment
  • Developer campaign support
  • Feature + integration adoption paths

Ecosystem, Community & Growth

  • Community engagement
  • Integration + partner ecosystem support
  • Agency + consultant enablement
  • Developer feedback loops
  • Sales engineering alignment
  • Internal technical enablement

Tech Stack

IDE & Development Workflow

  • Cursor — main workspace, fast iteration
  • Claude Code — debugging + large-scale reasoning
  • GitHub — version control + collaboration
  • Supabase — quick databases + APIs
  • Vercel / Netlify — deployments
  • Warp — terminal

AI & Research Tools

  • ChatGPT — projects, connectors, early research
  • Gemini — search, visual references
  • Perplexity — landscape + competitive insight
  • Common Room — community signal
  • Reddit / Discord / X — developer insight

Design & Systems Thinking

  • Figma — layout + prototyping
  • Excalidraw — whiteboarding + flow sketching
  • ChatGPT (Mermaid) — diagram starting points

Content & Documentation

  • Notion — writing, drafts, specs, ideas
  • GitHub — examples, starters, templates
  • Loom — walkthroughs, feedback, SME capture
  • Airtable — content + project tracking

Marketing & SEO Stack

  • Ahrefs — competitive + keyword research
  • SurferSEO — on-page structure
  • Google Keyword Planner — automation + research workflows
  • Buffer — social distribution

Analytics & Reporting

  • PostHog — web + activation analytics
  • FullStory — journey + behavioral insight
  • Looker — cross-team analysis
  • Sigma — lead → pipeline reporting
  • GA4 / Plausible — traffic + content performance

Enablement & Sales Alignment

  • Gong — customer calls + theme detection
  • WorkRamp — internal education
  • Figma Slides — decks + presentations
  • Arcade — product demos

Collaboration Stack

  • Notion — async writing + collaboration
  • Slack — communication + save-for-later workflow
  • Loom — async explanations
  • Airtable — structured project ops

KPIs & Metrics

ACQUISITION

  • Developer acquisition
  • High-intent traffic
  • Docs entry rate
  • Content-driven discovery

ACTIVATION

  • Activation rate
  • Time to first action
  • Content → usage conversion
  • Documentation engagement

LEAD GENERATION

  • SQLs from developer paths
  • Lead quality from technical channels
  • Trial-to-SQL conversion
  • Pipeline influenced by developer touchpoints

Content & Distribution

Content Types

  • Technical blog posts
  • API documentation
  • Video tutorials & demos
  • Code samples & templates
  • Interactive playgrounds
  • Developer guides & quickstarts
  • Case studies
  • Changelog announcements

Distribution Channels

  • Dev.to & Hashnode
  • GitHub Discussions
  • Stack Overflow
  • Reddit (r/programming, r/webdev)
  • Hacker News
  • Twitter/X (Tech Twitter)
  • YouTube & Twitch
  • Developer newsletters

People to Follow

Resources