The crowd.dev blog

Learn about Product-Community Fit for open-source companies. Discover why it matters and how to measure it with Monthly Active Contributors.

Use crowd.dev to spot potential developer advocates and open-source contributors in a matter of seconds with your unified member directoy.

Monitor 10+ developer platforms, including GitHub, Reddit, Stack Overflow, to discover and engage with relevant content.

Discover how to measure your community's return on investment. Our guide will help you understand the key metrics & how to communicate them.

Learn how to measure and increase engagement in your developer community using crowd.dev.

Leverage your developer community with crowd.dev's member enrichment - the only data enrichment tailored to developers.

We started 2023 out with a bang, releasing the first data enrichment tailored to developers and the much-requested LinkedIn integration.

Unlock the potential of your developer community: Get 5 reasons to choose crowd.dev over other community data platforms.

At crowd.dev, we follow a project-based development approach, including 1-week cycles always ending in a release. Find out why & how here.

Find out how Luos, an open-source DevTool, uses crowd.dev to manage and grow its already 11,000-strong developer community here.

AnalyzeMyRepo is a powerful tool to learn about the adoption, contributions, diversity, & governance of any GitHub repo.

In December 2022, we introduced the Growth plan, a Reddit integration, and several UX improvements. Learn more in our product updates.

Learn more about amazing (and maybe surprising) use cases for crowd.dev - the community-led growth platform for developer tools.

Discover how AI models like ChatGPT are changing the way we approach community building: from community definition to community management.

Organization lists & profiles, Tasks, Notes, a Hacker News integration, and many more resources for you in November.

What is a Developer Advocate, what are their main responsibilities, what makes them essential for DevTools, & how do you find them?

Learn about popular open-source licenses, how they differ, when one is preferable to another, & examples of how startups use them

crowd.dev raised €2.2M to build the community-led growth platform for developer-first businesses. We are now 100% open-source.

October marks crowd.dev’s biggest product update yet - from sentiment analysis to rich member profiles, there are changes to help you grow.

Building developer communities is hard work. We lay out the most important elements and steps in this comprehensive guide. Enjoy!

Community-led growth explained in 6 ways. To a child, college grad, marketeer, community expert, DevTool founder, & Engineer

Developers are a special audience to market & sell to. They don’t respond well to traditional marketing. We tell you what you can do.

Here's how to build your open-source startup seed round pitch deck, according to a former open-source focused VC. Including a template.

Should I wait for a launch day? This question can be even harder if you are an open source startup. In this blog we go through pros & cons.

To build a thriving community, you need to understand the needs of your members. Here you'll learn how to conduct community research calls.

Community forums are a gateway for people to connect and discuss shared interests.

In August 2022, crowd.dev shipped the new app Eagle Eye, a DEV integration, support for GitHub discussions and a few other improvements.

In this case study you can learn how Kern.ai - the IDE for data-centric NLP - grew their GitHub stargazers from 0 to 800 with crowd.dev.

Deciding on a platform to start your community journey is challenging. We compared the 3 top ones: Slack, Discord, and Mattermost?

Building communities is a critical part of the success of open source projects. Learn how to build them.

With OpenSourceAlternative.To growing each day, we have taken the time and compiled a list of our top ten open-source projects.

Seven fantastic newsletters about the latest trends, news and tools concerning developer communities.

Onboarding new members is critical for community building. Check out this guide to ensure you make it as good as can be.

Longing for some great book recommendations about dev community building? We have combined our top six picks into a conclusive list for you.

Check out our step-by-step guide, where we help you through the challenging process of finding the right community for you.

Discover the three stages of community growth and learn how to navigate them successfully.

Crowd.dev has launched a directory with 250+ open source alternatives to proprietary software. Learn more in our blog post.

Turn your community’s conversations on Discord, Slack & co into SEO-friendly landing pages to drive traffic and reduce duplicate questions.

crowd.dev is brining open metrics to community-driven companies. Learn more in this blog.

Building a healthy, strong developer community is not an easy task. That is why we created this guide to get you through the first steps.

Creating a great blog is not easy. We have 10 tips to improve your blogging skills to help you grow your community & business.

Get a sense of how your community is doing and understand their activities. With the right metrics, you can get useful information.

Diving into how and why they build community at the open-source collaboration tool company ownCloud.

If you want to turn your virtual event into a success, you need the right platform. We compared & different platforms picked out 5 for you.

Marko Saric, the Co-founder of Plausible analytics, gives insights into their marketing strategy & rapid success as an open-source company.

This guide explains WHY it is essential to speak at a conference and HOW you can get invited to one.

Learn what an impact open source communities had on Nextcloud's success.

If you want to build a great README, don't forget to include these 18 elements.

David Awad, Developer Evangelist at r3, talks about his approach to developer community building in this "The Rise of Community" interview.

Stars are the social currency of GitHub. Learn what steps you can take to get your first 1000 stars and build some momentum.

In this interview, Giovanni Rago (Head of DevRel at Checkly) explains why communities will be about directness & transparency in the future.

From trading bots to Dropbox alternatives - learn about 10 exciting open source software projects.

Shruti Kuber (DevRel @ EMnify) explains why pace is a challenge for community building, what she learned from working in DevRel, and more.

Slack? Discord? Rocket.chat? Learn everything about differences & similarities of the leading communication tools for developer communities.

Learn why the open source Edgeless Systems is relying on community building in this interview with Sr. DevMarketing Manager Daniel Bentrup.

How will the rise of open source affect the software industry and its approach to commercialization? Find out in this blog.

Learn how the AR startup Anything World is building its developer community.

DevRel, Developer Marketeer, Technical Ambassadors? Get an overview of job titles in dev community building and learn about the differences.

Learn how Cheuk Ting Ho and TerminusDB are tackling building their developer community.

Find out which community platforms developers are using in 2021 and what pros and cons they have.

Learn why companies need a developer community and how to actually build a strong and long-lasting community.

Community-driven businesses are fundamentally different from traditional businesses. Learn why.

crowd.dev does the leg-work for community building, so you can focus on building relationships instead of data integrations & spreadsheets.