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Our Process for Matching Writers to Articles
With a growing number of writers around the world and a growing roster of clients who rely on us for top-notch technical content, one of the challenges we face is making sure each assignment gets matched to the best technical writer possible. In this blog post, I’ll outline our approach, which we share with writers…
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26 Low-Cost Content Marketing Ideas
I talk to a lot of early-stage startups that aren’t sure about content marketing yet. I’ll admit, it’s usually not the best marketing channel to start with because it takes a long time to ramp up and a lot of prior knowledge to do well. That said, the payoff over years is huge. In this…
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Live Customer Chat Tools for Startups
If you want to engage your customers at the moment they’re considering buying your product or signing up for your service, there’s no better way than live chat. You’re probably familiar with Intercom or Autopilot because they’ve become so ubiquitous now, but there are many other options out there. Should You Use Live Chat? To…
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Creating Gatsby Starters
GatsbyJS is an open-source React-based, GraphQL powered static site generator. You can create blazingly fast websites in minutes using Gatsby, and many technical companies use it for their blogs. Gatsby Starters are boilerplates that you, as a developer, can use to set up a new site with preconfigured tools and plugins instantly. You can modify…
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Lost in the Content Marketing Forest
While most of our clients are larger now, I worked directly with a lot of founders at early-stage startups in my first few months at Draft.dev. I like working with founders; they are passionate, enthusiastic, and typically quick learners. On the flip side, they can be tough to please. Because they care about every detail…
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Creating Hugo Themes
Lately, developers are adopting static site generators like Hugo to quickly deliver content to their audience. Frameworks like these cut down on issues that pop up with scalability, version control, managing dependencies, and performance. Hugo in particular offers tons of features right out of the box for creating fast, modern, and secure static websites. It’s…
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A Guide to Writing Technical Roundups
What is a technical roundup? Some people call them listicles, since that’s their general format: a list of the best and most useful blogs, frameworks, tools, and so on. Think the best Python blogs or the best computer science blogs, for example. It’s a popular article format for a reason. A roundup offers a short,…
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How to Write Better Technical Content
I recently spoke to the CTO Craft community about building a software engineering team blog. Towards the end, we got into some specific writing tips for software engineers who struggle to create strong technical content. I’ve been writing online since at least 2010. I don’t remember if I published anything before that, but that’s the…
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Blogging Platforms for Your Startup
There are many good reasons to start a blog for your startup: to update your customers, to generate content that ranks in search engines, or to establish your founders as subject matter experts. After you come up with some ideas, understand why you’re writing, and create a content plan, you need to decide on a…
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The Best Golang Blogs for Learning Golang
Go recently turned eleven, so you can imagine how much the language and its ecosystem have evolved through the years. A strongly typed language, it’s become increasingly popular with its garbage collection and concurrency support. It’s massively performant, scalable, and resource-use efficient. Small wonder that Go is applied across a multitude of areas these days,…
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