Write for Us Developers: Developers Blog Guest Post Guidelines

Most developer content is a tutorial rewritten from the docs. What this blog wants is a real engineering story: a problem you hit, the approach you chose, the trade-off you accepted, and what it did to the product or the team.

My readers build software or run the businesses around it. They want the decision and its consequence, so a developer post has to teach from real work, not a getting started guide.

60-second developers guest post check

A strong submission can answer yes to all five points:

• Have you shipped the work you describe
• Do you have a result, a metric or a clear trade-off
• Does your opening answer the reader's question straight away
• Have you removed any pitch for a tool or bootcamp
• Could a developer learn from your decision this week

Read the guidelines and submit your guest post.

What we publish

• A hard bug and how you tracked it down
• An architecture decision and the trade-off you accepted
• A refactor that paid off, with the before and after
• A performance fix and the numbers behind it
• A tool or library you adopted and later regretted, and why
• Shipping under a deadline and what you cut
• Testing that caught a real problem before release
• Mentoring or code review that changed how your team works

If your post could be published on any developers site with the logo swapped, it is not for us.

What we don't accept

• Tutorials copied from documentation
• Posts that promote one tool, framework or bootcamp
• Language comparison listicles with no project behind them
• Previously published posts republished from another site
• Thin content under 800 words with no real code or decision

What you get

• Your article in front of an engaged audience of business owners, marketers and founders
• One relevant, contextual link back to your own site
• A byline and the credibility of an established, high-traffic blog
• Editorial help to make the piece as strong as it can be before it goes live

How to submit

Send your pitch or draft through the contact form. Include the topic, the one specific problem the post solves, and a line on your first-hand experience with it. One idea per pitch works best. You will hear back on whether it is a fit before you write the full draft.

What a strong developers pitch looks like

A weak pitch says "I want to write about the best programming languages to learn." A strong one says "We had a memory leak that only showed under load, and I want to walk through how we found it, the one line that caused it, and the check we added so it cannot happen again." One is a brochure. The other is worth reading.

The angles that get accepted fastest

• A bug hunt with the root cause
• An architecture call and its trade-off
• A refactor with the before and after
• A decision another developer could learn from this week
• A contrarian view on a common engineering practice

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Frequently asked questions

Does Lilach Bullock accept developers guest posts?

Yes. Developers guest posts are welcome from a working developer or engineering leads and similar writers who have done the work and can share what happened. We publish practical articles with real examples and decline listicles of programming languages.

What developers topics do you accept?

We accept real bug hunts, architecture decisions and trade-offs, refactors that paid off, performance fixes, tools you adopted and dropped, and testing that caught real problems. The common thread is a specific lesson with a result attached, not a general overview of developers.

Can I include a link back to my own site?

One contextual link back to your own site is fine when it is relevant and helps the reader. Posts written purely to build a backlink with no real value are not published.

Do you accept previously published content?

No. Every submission must be original and not published anywhere else first, including your own blog, Medium, LinkedIn, or a guest slot on another site under a different name. Republished or lightly reworded content gets declined, and we check before it goes live.

How do I submit a developers guest post?

Send your pitch through the contact form with the topic, the specific result or lesson you will cover, and a line on your own experience doing the work you are writing about. One idea per pitch works best, and you will hear back before writing a full draft.

Do you accept sponsored or commercial partnerships?

Commercial and partnership enquiries are handled separately from editorial guest posts. If you are a brand or agency wanting to work together rather than pitch an article, say so in the contact form and you will get the right details back.

How long should a developers guest post be?

There is no fixed word count, but posts that do well here usually run from 1,000 to 1,800 words. Long enough to show the example and the numbers, short enough that a busy owner finishes it. Cut anything that repeats what the reader already knows.

What makes a developers pitch stand out?

A real result in the first sentence. Say what you did, what changed and over what period, then say what the reader will be able to copy. For example: We had a memory leak that only showed under load, and I want to walk through how we found it, the one line that caused it, and the check we added so it cannot happen again.

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