# DevRel Directory

> The main place for Developer Relations: guides, tools, communities, and jobs for DevRel professionals.

Last updated: 2026-07-22 (newest health-check verification across directory listings)

## Start here

- [Get into DevRel](https://devrel.directory/start.md): a sequenced route into the field, drawing on the live directory, events, and job data

## Docs

- [DevRel Documentation](https://devrel.directory/docs.md): An open knowledge base for Developer Relations - what DevRel is, how the roles differ, and how to build a program that works.

- **Fundamentals**
- [Definition of Developer Relations](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/definition.md): A working definition of DevRel, what it is not, where the function should report, and how the definition shifts with company stage and product type.
- [The Business Case for DevRel](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/importance.md): Why DevRel is worth funding - the network-effects mechanism behind developer-first growth, what neglect actually costs, and how to defend the budget internally.
- [DevRel Roles and Responsibilities](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/roles-and-responsibilities.md): The four classic DevRel roles, the modern titles that grew out of them, who to hire first at each company stage, and where the team should report.
- [DevRel Strategy](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/devrel-strategy.md): A reference framework for building a DevRel strategy - goals, audience, activities, and metrics - plus the failure modes that sink most programs.
- [Understanding Developer Personas and Needs](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/understanding-developer-personas.md): How to build research-backed developer personas - a field-by-field template, a fully worked example, and the research methods that justify every claim.

- **AI-era DevRel**
- [Agents Are Your New Developers](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/agents-as-your-new-developers.md): A growing share of first contact with your product is an AI agent acting for a developer. What that changes for DevRel, and what to do about it.
- [Writing Docs LLMs Can Use](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/docs-for-llms.md): llms.txt, Markdown mirrors, and the structural habits that make documentation retrievable and quotable by AI assistants.
- [MCP Servers Are the New SDK](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/mcp-servers-as-devrel-surface.md): Why an MCP server is a developer relations surface, what to expose through it, and the DevRel work that makes one succeed.
- [Measuring Adoption You Cannot See](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/measuring-ai-driven-adoption.md): Why classic web analytics undercount AI-driven adoption, what you can actually measure, and how to report it honestly.

- **Practices**
- [DevRel Activities](https://devrel.directory/docs/practices/devrel-activities.md): The core activities of Developer Relations work, when each one earns its place, and how to combine a few of them into a coherent program.
- [Community Building](https://devrel.directory/docs/practices/community-building.md): How to start, grow, and sustain a developer community, from the first fifty members to programs that scale, plus how to show up well in communities you do not own.
- [Content Creation](https://devrel.directory/docs/practices/content-creation.md): Planning, writing, and distributing developer content that actually gets used, from quickstarts to long-form guides, with a pipeline a small team can sustain.

- **Additional Resources**
- [How we curate](https://devrel.directory/docs/additional-resources/how-we-curate.md): The inclusion bar, the weekly health checks, the two-strike removal rule, and the strict line between money and editorial judgment on devrel.directory.
- [Contributing to devrel.directory](https://devrel.directory/docs/additional-resources/contributing.md): What contributions are welcome, how changes land, and the editorial bar every page has to clear.
- [For agents and developers](https://devrel.directory/docs/additional-resources/for-agents.md): Every machine-readable surface of devrel.directory in one place - Markdown mirrors, the MCP server, feeds, the crawler policy, and rate limits.
- [MCP server](https://devrel.directory/docs/additional-resources/mcp-server.md): Connect an AI agent to the devrel.directory MCP server to search listings, jobs, events, and docs.

## Blog

- [Goals Planning for your DevRel Team using OKRs](https://devrel.directory/blog/2024-10-29-devrel-team-goal-planning-strategy-okr)
- [DevRel Strategy - A Comprehensive Guide](https://devrel.directory/blog/2024-11-06-devrel-strategy): Creating and implementing effective Developer Relations strategies
- [devrel.directory is back](https://devrel.directory/blog/2026-07-10-devrel-directory-relaunch): The site has a new design, an actual directory, a jobs board, and AI-friendly docs. Why it went quiet, what changed, and where it goes from here.

## Directory

- [DevRel directory](https://devrel.directory/directory): curated directory of Developer Relations tools, communities, newsletters, podcasts, and agencies. Every listing is also in [llms-full.txt](https://devrel.directory/llms-full.txt); the per-listing Markdown twins are linked individually below.

- [Advocu](https://devrel.directory/directory/advocu.md): Runs developer ambassador and experts programs: applications, activity tracking, and program reporting in one place.
- [Algolia DocSearch](https://devrel.directory/directory/algolia-docsearch.md): Free hosted search for open-source docs sites; the default search layer on thousands of developer docs.
- [Answer Overflow](https://devrel.directory/directory/answer-overflow.md): Indexes Discord help channels into Google so community answers become searchable content.
- [Apache Answer](https://devrel.directory/directory/apache-answer.md): Open-source Q&A platform for running a self-hosted developer support forum with reputation and moderation.
- [Asciinema](https://devrel.directory/directory/asciinema.md): Records terminal sessions as lightweight text-based embeds for docs, READMEs, and tutorials.
- [Bevy](https://devrel.directory/directory/bevy.md): Platform for distributed chapter and meetup programs; powers Google Developer Groups and CNCF community groups.
- [Bump.sh](https://devrel.directory/directory/bump-sh.md): API documentation platform that diffs every deploy and generates changelogs, now also offering MCP server documentation for AI agents.
- [Buttondown](https://devrel.directory/directory/buttondown.md): Markdown-first newsletter tool with an API, popular for developer-audience newsletters.
- [Canny](https://devrel.directory/directory/canny.md): AI-powered customer feedback management platform for capturing and prioritizing feature requests and feedback.
- [Common Room](https://devrel.directory/directory/common-room.md): Platform that aggregates member activity across Discord, Slack, GitHub, and social to provide buyer intelligence and community insights through AI agents.
- [confs.tech](https://devrel.directory/directory/confs-tech.md): Community-maintained list of developer conferences and CFP deadlines, the standard place to find speaking slots.
- [Context7](https://devrel.directory/directory/context7.md): Serves version-specific library docs to AI coding tools over MCP; getting indexed here is docs distribution now.
- [daily.dev](https://devrel.directory/directory/daily-dev.md): Personalized developer news feed; a distribution channel for getting technical content in front of developers.
- [Descript](https://devrel.directory/directory/descript.md): Text-based video and podcast editing, a fast way to produce tutorials, talks, and developer shows.
- [Discord](https://devrel.directory/directory/discord.md): Real-time chat platform used by developer communities for group communication and community building.
- [Discourse](https://devrel.directory/directory/discourse.md): The standard open-source forum software for long-form developer community discussion.
- [Docusaurus](https://devrel.directory/directory/docusaurus.md): Open-source docs framework from Meta, the workhorse of OSS documentation sites.
- [F5Bot](https://devrel.directory/directory/f5bot.md): Free email alerts when your product is mentioned on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters; the zero-budget listening option.
- [Fern](https://devrel.directory/directory/fern.md): Generates SDKs and a docs site from an OpenAPI spec, so a small team can ship a full developer portal.
- [Ghost](https://devrel.directory/directory/ghost.md): Open-source publishing platform behind many engineering blogs and paid developer newsletters.
- [GitBook](https://devrel.directory/directory/gitbook.md): Documentation platform with Git sync for product and developer docs, now emphasizing AI-powered knowledge management and question answering.
- [GitHub Discussions](https://devrel.directory/directory/github-discussions.md): Threaded forums attached to your repos; the lowest-friction community home for open-source projects.
- [kapa.ai](https://devrel.directory/directory/kapa-ai.md): AI answer widget trained on your docs and community threads; deflects developer questions with cited answers.
- [Luma](https://devrel.directory/directory/luma.md): Event pages, registration, and calendars used heavily for developer meetups.
- [Material for MkDocs](https://devrel.directory/directory/material-for-mkdocs.md): The most widely deployed open-source docs theme; Markdown in, a polished documentation site out.
- [Mintlify](https://devrel.directory/directory/mintlify.md): Documentation platform with built-in analytics and AI features; now positioning toward agents and self-updating documentation.
- [OBS Studio](https://devrel.directory/directory/obs-studio.md): Free, open-source recording and streaming; the default rig for live coding, demos, and talk recordings.
- [Octolens](https://devrel.directory/directory/octolens.md): Social listening tool tracking mentions across Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and other platforms; evolving to serve the agent era with API and MCP integrations.
- [OSS Insight](https://devrel.directory/directory/oss-insight.md): Analytics over public GitHub events for open-source trends; now emphasizing AI agent frameworks, LLM tools, and MCP servers alongside general repo benchmarking.
- [Plausible](https://devrel.directory/directory/plausible.md): Lightweight, privacy-first web analytics for docs and blogs; no cookie banner needed for developer audiences.
- [PostHog](https://devrel.directory/directory/posthog.md): Open-source product analytics platform with AI-powered features for automated debugging and code generation.
- [pretalx](https://devrel.directory/directory/pretalx.md): Open-source call-for-papers and conference scheduling, trusted by FOSDEM-scale community events.
- [Profound](https://devrel.directory/directory/profound.md): Tracks how your product shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude answers as AI search reshapes discovery.
- [Read the Docs](https://devrel.directory/directory/read-the-docs.md): Automated building, versioning, and hosting of docs from Git; the long-standing home of open-source documentation.
- [ReadMe](https://devrel.directory/directory/readme.md): Interactive API documentation hubs with real-time API logs and guides.
- [Redocly](https://devrel.directory/directory/redocly.md): Maker of Redoc, the long-standing OpenAPI reference renderer, plus a full API docs platform.
- [Scalar](https://devrel.directory/directory/scalar.md): Open-source API reference and request client that renders OpenAPI specs into interactive docs, with SDKs and API registry.
- [Scarf](https://devrel.directory/directory/scarf.md): Provides intelligence on how agents and developers use open-source packages and containers, with focus on GTM signals and risk.
- [Sessionize](https://devrel.directory/directory/sessionize.md): Call-for-papers and speaker management for conferences and meetups.
- [Slack](https://devrel.directory/directory/slack.md): Team chat platform where developer and customer communities collaborate and automate workflows.
- [Slidev](https://devrel.directory/directory/slidev.md): Markdown-based slide decks with live code and syntax highlighting, built for developer talks.
- [Slido](https://devrel.directory/directory/slido.md): Live Q&A and polls inside talks and webinars, standard kit for audience interaction at developer events.
- [Stainless](https://devrel.directory/directory/stainless.md): SDK generator and API tooling platform used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare; now also generates MCP servers and API documentation.
- [star-history](https://devrel.directory/directory/star-history.md): Charts GitHub star growth over time; the graph in every devtool launch post and pitch deck.
- [Starlight](https://devrel.directory/directory/starlight.md): Astro's documentation framework with search, i18n, and theming out of the box; a fast-growing Docusaurus alternative.
- [Vale](https://devrel.directory/directory/vale.md): Command-line prose linter that enforces a docs style guide in CI; keeps large doc sets consistent.
- [Zulip](https://devrel.directory/directory/zulip.md): Open-source threaded team chat; the community home of Rust and other projects that outgrew unthreaded chat.
- [CMX](https://devrel.directory/directory/cmx.md): Community for community professionals with events and research, much of it DevRel-adjacent.
- [dev.to](https://devrel.directory/directory/dev-to.md): Large developer blogging community, a common distribution channel for DevRel content.
- [Developer Marketing Alliance](https://devrel.directory/directory/developer-marketing-alliance.md): Community and content hub focused on marketing to developers.
- [DevRel Collective](https://devrel.directory/directory/devrel-collective.md): Slack community of DevRel practitioners; the de-facto watercooler of the profession.
- [Hashnode](https://devrel.directory/directory/hashnode.md): Developer blogging platform with custom domains, popular for personal dev branding.
- [build mode](https://devrel.directory/directory/build-mode.md): PostHog's newsletter on building and growing products, formerly Product for Engineers; covers marketing, activation, and product lessons from PostHog's own work.
- [console.dev](https://devrel.directory/directory/console-dev.md): Free weekly newsletter reviewing new developer tools and beta releases, sent every Thursday.
- [Developer Avocados Weekly](https://devrel.directory/directory/developer-avocados-weekly.md): Weekly email roundup of Developer Relations articles, resources, and conference CFPs.
- [Community Pulse](https://devrel.directory/directory/community-pulse.md): Podcast on community and DevRel topics, hosted by long-time practitioners.
- [devtools.fm](https://devrel.directory/directory/devtools-fm.md): Podcast about developer tools and the people who make them; hosts Andrew Lisowski and Justin Bennett interview maintainers and devtool builders.
- [Scaling DevTools](https://devrel.directory/directory/scaling-devtools.md): Interview podcast by Jack Bridger on how developer tools companies grow; founders and operators talk marketing, positioning, and DevRel.
- [The Business of Open Source](https://devrel.directory/directory/the-business-of-open-source.md): Interview podcast by Emily Omier on positioning and company building for commercial open-source companies.
- [Catchy](https://devrel.directory/directory/catchy.md): Developer marketing agency working with large tech platforms; covers go-to-market strategy, demand generation, content production, and developer programs.
- [Draft.dev](https://devrel.directory/directory/draft-dev.md): Technical content agency that produces tutorials, blog posts, and video for developer tools and platform companies, with emphasis on AI-powered content systems and search engine optimization.
- [EveryDeveloper](https://devrel.directory/directory/everydeveloper.md): Technical content strategy consultancy run by Adam DuVander; helps API and devtool companies earn developer visibility, trust, and adoption.
- [Hoopy](https://devrel.directory/directory/hoopy.md): Developer relations consultancy by Matthew Revell, also behind DevRel.net and DevRelCon.
- [Ritza](https://devrel.directory/directory/ritza.md): Technical content agency for developer platforms; engineers turned writers produce documentation, tutorials, onboarding guides, and SEO content.
- [Wizard on Demand](https://devrel.directory/directory/wizard-on-demand.md): Content marketing agency for devtools and enterprise infrastructure companies; creates technical articles and resources and runs SEO distribution.

## Comparisons

Head-to-head pages for the tool pairs this directory has curated as alternatives to each other, each comparing both products on identical criteria drawn from what they publish.

- [Apache Answer vs Discourse](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/apache-answer-vs-discourse.md)
- [Bevy vs Luma](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/bevy-vs-luma.md)
- [Bump.sh vs Redocly](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/bump-sh-vs-redocly.md)
- [Bump.sh vs Scalar](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/bump-sh-vs-scalar.md)
- [Buttondown vs Ghost](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/buttondown-vs-ghost.md)
- [dev.to vs Hashnode](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/dev-to-vs-hashnode.md)
- [Discord vs Slack](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/discord-vs-slack.md)
- [Discord vs Zulip](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/discord-vs-zulip.md)
- [Discourse vs GitHub Discussions](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/discourse-vs-github-discussions.md)
- [Docusaurus vs Material for MkDocs](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/docusaurus-vs-material-for-mkdocs.md)
- [Docusaurus vs Mintlify](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/docusaurus-vs-mintlify.md)
- [Docusaurus vs Read the Docs](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/docusaurus-vs-read-the-docs.md)
- [Docusaurus vs Starlight](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/docusaurus-vs-starlight.md)
- [F5Bot vs Octolens](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/f5bot-vs-octolens.md)
- [Fern vs Stainless](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/fern-vs-stainless.md)
- [GitBook vs Mintlify](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/gitbook-vs-mintlify.md)
- [Material for MkDocs vs Starlight](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/material-for-mkdocs-vs-starlight.md)
- [Mintlify vs ReadMe](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/mintlify-vs-readme.md)
- [OSS Insight vs star-history](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/oss-insight-vs-star-history.md)
- [Plausible vs PostHog](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/plausible-vs-posthog.md)
- [pretalx vs Sessionize](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/pretalx-vs-sessionize.md)
- [ReadMe vs Redocly](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/readme-vs-redocly.md)
- [Redocly vs Scalar](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/redocly-vs-scalar.md)
- [Slack vs Zulip](https://devrel.directory/directory/compare/slack-vs-zulip.md)

## Alternatives

For each listing with a curated alternative, the full shortlist compared on identical criteria.

- [Alternatives to Apache Answer](https://devrel.directory/directory/apache-answer/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Bevy](https://devrel.directory/directory/bevy/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Bump.sh](https://devrel.directory/directory/bump-sh/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Buttondown](https://devrel.directory/directory/buttondown/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Discord](https://devrel.directory/directory/discord/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Discourse](https://devrel.directory/directory/discourse/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Docusaurus](https://devrel.directory/directory/docusaurus/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to F5Bot](https://devrel.directory/directory/f5bot/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Fern](https://devrel.directory/directory/fern/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Ghost](https://devrel.directory/directory/ghost/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to GitBook](https://devrel.directory/directory/gitbook/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to GitHub Discussions](https://devrel.directory/directory/github-discussions/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Luma](https://devrel.directory/directory/luma/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Material for MkDocs](https://devrel.directory/directory/material-for-mkdocs/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Mintlify](https://devrel.directory/directory/mintlify/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Octolens](https://devrel.directory/directory/octolens/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to OSS Insight](https://devrel.directory/directory/oss-insight/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Plausible](https://devrel.directory/directory/plausible/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to PostHog](https://devrel.directory/directory/posthog/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to pretalx](https://devrel.directory/directory/pretalx/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Read the Docs](https://devrel.directory/directory/read-the-docs/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to ReadMe](https://devrel.directory/directory/readme/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Redocly](https://devrel.directory/directory/redocly/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Scalar](https://devrel.directory/directory/scalar/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Sessionize](https://devrel.directory/directory/sessionize/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Slack](https://devrel.directory/directory/slack/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Stainless](https://devrel.directory/directory/stainless/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to star-history](https://devrel.directory/directory/star-history/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Starlight](https://devrel.directory/directory/starlight/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Zulip](https://devrel.directory/directory/zulip/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to dev.to](https://devrel.directory/directory/dev-to/alternatives.md)
- [Alternatives to Hashnode](https://devrel.directory/directory/hashnode/alternatives.md)

## Statistics

- [DevRel by the numbers](https://devrel.directory/stats): counts over this directory's own data (listings by category, open roles, remote share, upcoming events and open CFPs) with the computation method stated and reuse permitted with attribution

## Jobs

- [DevRel jobs](https://devrel.directory/jobs): open Developer Relations roles, enumerated in [llms-full.txt](https://devrel.directory/llms-full.txt)

## Events

- [DevRel events & CFPs](https://devrel.directory/events): upcoming Developer Relations conferences and open CFPs, enumerated in [llms-full.txt](https://devrel.directory/llms-full.txt)

## Feeds

- [RSS](https://devrel.directory/rss.xml): blog posts
- [Jobs RSS](https://devrel.directory/jobs/rss.xml): open DevRel roles, newest first, salary in the title when the posting discloses one
- [Events RSS](https://devrel.directory/events/rss.xml): newly added events, open CFPs flagged in the title
- [Directory RSS](https://devrel.directory/directory/rss.xml): newly added directory listings
- [Events calendar](https://devrel.directory/events.ics): every upcoming event as an all-day iCal entry
- [CFP deadline calendar](https://devrel.directory/cfps.ics): open CFP deadlines as timed iCal entries with a one-week reminder

## MCP server

- [MCP server](https://devrel.directory/docs/additional-resources/mcp-server): read-only Model Context Protocol server at https://devrel.directory/mcp exposing directory, jobs, events, and docs search to AI agents over Streamable HTTP

## Optional

- [Full content](https://devrel.directory/llms-full.txt): all docs pages plus every directory listing, active job, and upcoming event in one Markdown file