Anyone doing a developer-focused newsletter?
Who here is writing newsletters focused on developers?
Any tips on growing an audience for this niche?
So far I've had the most success so far on LinkedIn.
I'm working on a newsletter about developer productivity, python, and how to practice programming. Not sure if that's too broad of a topic range or not.
I'm having a tough time growing as well, so far Twitter and LinkedIn has worked the best. It was suggested to me to have an open-source project and promote the newsletter through that - might give that a go if an idea matches up.
From a marketing standpoint, the best way to grow a dev newsletter would be develop easy-to-use tools that the dev community would use.
Can you think of anything you can put together easy and quickly to get eyeballs on?
I'm working on a web app called Deliberate Python. The idea is that it lets you master Python fundamentals using spaced repetition. Ultimately I want it to be a SaaS product. I haven't launched it yet, but I feel like it will be pretty useful.
I've been thinking of other auxiliary products in the same space that could be free in order to get some inbound traffic. Maybe a webpage similar to usehooks.com but with Python + pandas recipes? Python + Pandas is a very popular topic and I see lots of info out there about pandas.
Great idea @MushfiqSarker! I'll see about taking the plunge and building something out.
That would be awesome actually. I use Python + Pandas + Jupyter notebooks regularly for my dayjob.
Anything to make it easier would be cool.