# SaaS Companies & Developer Influencers: How to Vet Authentically #SaaS #DeveloperMarketing #Github #OSS
SaaS teams often face challenges in determining the authenticity of developer influencers. Key questions include verifying if they are real engineers, not just code enthusiasts, and understanding their audience's composition. It involves examining GitHub contributions, social metrics, and audience demographics, often requiring manual research. This process can be time-consuming and is typic
According to the Developer Marketing Survey Report 2025, 66% of developers prefer a direct email when contacted about a product they have already evaluated. report overview: https://evansdata.com/devmarketing)
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A great read for anyone who isn't sure about what value #DevRel really has at an organization.
> What value is DevRel bringing? DevRel is the only team at your company that can speak the engineer’s language, provide regular feedback to the product team, function as a marketing team, and grow the community as the face of your company.
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Talk to Me About Tech is able to help through consulting services and one-time packages to help you connect with your desired technical audience, build a community (world-wide!), devise an effective outreach strategy, improve the internal & external #DeveloperExperience, help you plan an #OpenSource strategy, and much more.
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Living in #SanFrancisco? Working in #DeveloperRelations? Here's a new job from Continue:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/continue/jobs/il3YrJC-developer-relations-engineer
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Continue is seeking an outgoing Developer Relations Engineer to accelerate growth and engagement in the Continue community at the intersection of AI and software development. In this role, you will lead our online and in-person strategy to attract and empower developers who use our open source and enterprise products to help them build software. About you Please keep in mind that we are describing the background that we imagine would best fit the role. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements, yet you are confident that you are up for the task, we absolutely want to get to know you! You have a strong technical background in software development and care deeply about helping other developers succeed You have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and can effectively convey complex technical concepts to a wide audience both online and in-person You get excited about crafting blog posts, tutorials, videos, etc. that educate and inspire developers to learn how to better incorporate Large Language Models into their workflows You believe in a future where developers are amplified, not automated (https://amplified.dev/) and want to tell everyone about this What you will do We’re a startup, so you’ll have to be ready to do whatever is required to accomplish our mission. However, you can definitely expect to: Create a strategic plan for engaging and supporting developers through a Developer Relations program that turns users into contributors and contributors into heroes Get developers excited online on Discord, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. while also organizing and attending meetups, workshops, and other in-person developer events Ensure we hit our goals for the community by not only creating tutorials, guides, and blog posts to help developers get started but also experimenting with new initiatives Represent the voice of the community internally by establishing feedback loops that share what you learn with the product team and result in a great developer experience
🥭 On Developer Marketing
by Lee Robinson @leeerob
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https://leerob.substack.com/p/on-developer-marketing?publication_id=1248526&post_id=142913161
What influences developers to adopt a product? Trust. The tools they adopt and advocate for impact their reputation. You might have heard “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” in reference to making good choices. But picking older, well-adopted tools can be at odds with how fast the industry moves. Is there a newer alternative that solves my needs better? Ask your developer.
The book for my next trip is…
“Developer Marketing does not exist”
Thanks for the motivation, Adam! ☺️
Adam Duvander had a great talk at #devrelcon in London this year, with some tricks!
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