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Do this, but for devs with big social followings. Have them name the price for a tweet, post, like, etc. There is nothing like it right now and its a huge marke

Do this, but for devs with big social followings. Have them name the price for a tweet, post, like, etc. There is nothing like it right now and its a huge market.

pixelfeeder 10y ago
Thats a good idea. Let me see what I can do. If there are devs in the house with a solid following, send me your details.
- pryelluw 10y ago
  Wrong approach. Contact them with a quote on how much they can make.
petercooper 10y ago
The problem is the devs you'd most likely want to do it are the least likely to want to (at least, indiscriminately and in a marketplace style) because they have the most reputation to lose. Now dev oriented accounts on the other hand..
- mprev 10y ago
  I've often wondered how you feel when you see other newsletters that use the "$TECH Weekly" name format. I know that in the history of the world it's not unique but, in recent years, it has become likely that a newsletter with that sort of name might be a Cooper Press publication.
  - petercooper 10y ago
    Mostly okay. I was on the leading edge of a wave that was going to happen anyway, and the term is relatively generic. As long as someone doesn't start one with the same name as any of ours, I'm good. Many of the people behind other * Weekly dev newsletters have become good acquaintances. We have a rebrand in the works, however, as due to our reluctance to heavily promote or send arbitrary emails to subscribers, we have a lot of subscribers who don't know about the other publications.. and our stable is not very cohesive branding wise. This will be resolved by the end of the year :-)
  - stevekemp 10y ago
    There are always trends in naming, especially when it comes to spamming - err, I meant to say growth hacking. Scroll back over Hacker News over a few months and you can spot the moment when people caught on that putting "Machine Learning" in their titles got clicks, regardless of how valid that was. "$TECH weekly" is a similar level of branding to all those lists of projects which are "curated". Seriously search past submissions for "A curated list of ..". They're cookie-cutter posts that could probably be generated by machine-learning!
    - pryelluw 10y ago
      It does get insane. I saw a newsletter that sold itself as a "hand curated list of hand curated newsletters". Almost emailed the "curator" to ask WTF.
- pryelluw 10y ago
  How much are you paying? Money usually trumps any objection. Or give them a percent. Multiple devs with smaller devs also work and are cheaper.
  - pryelluw 10y ago
    Gee, I now realize I sound like a total dick in the comment above. What I mean is that you can get most people to promote a product as long as they have a match of values and reputation, and the money is right. Given how this is fairly new to devs its going to take a good deal to break the ice. Though I suspect the upside is going to be huge. Maybe a deal similarnto what copywriters get. Base plus a percentage.
no1youknowz 10y ago
I think Hypr: https://hyprbrands.com/ https://hyprbrands.com/ comes pretty close?

Do this, but for devs with big social followings. Have them name the price for a tweet, post, like, etc. There is nothing like it right now and its a huge market.

pixelfeeder 10y ago

Thats a good idea. Let me see what I can do. If there are devs in the house with a solid following, send me your details.

pryelluw 10y ago
Wrong approach. Contact them with a quote on how much they can make.

petercooper 10y ago

The problem is the devs you'd most likely want to do it are the least likely to want to (at least, indiscriminately and in a marketplace style) because they have the most reputation to lose. Now dev oriented accounts on the other hand..

mprev 10y ago
I've often wondered how you feel when you see other newsletters that use the "$TECH Weekly" name format. I know that in the history of the world it's not unique but, in recent years, it has become likely that a newsletter with that sort of name might be a Cooper Press publication.
- petercooper 10y ago
  Mostly okay. I was on the leading edge of a wave that was going to happen anyway, and the term is relatively generic. As long as someone doesn't start one with the same name as any of ours, I'm good. Many of the people behind other * Weekly dev newsletters have become good acquaintances. We have a rebrand in the works, however, as due to our reluctance to heavily promote or send arbitrary emails to subscribers, we have a lot of subscribers who don't know about the other publications.. and our stable is not very cohesive branding wise. This will be resolved by the end of the year :-)
- stevekemp 10y ago
  There are always trends in naming, especially when it comes to spamming - err, I meant to say growth hacking. Scroll back over Hacker News over a few months and you can spot the moment when people caught on that putting "Machine Learning" in their titles got clicks, regardless of how valid that was. "$TECH weekly" is a similar level of branding to all those lists of projects which are "curated". Seriously search past submissions for "A curated list of ..". They're cookie-cutter posts that could probably be generated by machine-learning!
  - pryelluw 10y ago
    It does get insane. I saw a newsletter that sold itself as a "hand curated list of hand curated newsletters". Almost emailed the "curator" to ask WTF.
pryelluw 10y ago
How much are you paying? Money usually trumps any objection. Or give them a percent. Multiple devs with smaller devs also work and are cheaper.
- pryelluw 10y ago
  Gee, I now realize I sound like a total dick in the comment above. What I mean is that you can get most people to promote a product as long as they have a match of values and reputation, and the money is right. Given how this is fairly new to devs its going to take a good deal to break the ice. Though I suspect the upside is going to be huge. Maybe a deal similarnto what copywriters get. Base plus a percentage.

no1youknowz 10y ago

I think Hypr: https://hyprbrands.com/ https://hyprbrands.com/ comes pretty close?