Prompt
Best place to build developer audience
Latest observation
If you mean “where should I build a developer audience?”, the best place depends on the kind of audience you want, but in general:
Best overall
X (Twitter) + GitHub + one owned channel (newsletter or blog)
- X/Twitter: best for fast discovery, networking, and sharing dev thoughts/build-in-public content.
- GitHub: best if you’re showing real code, open source, demos, or tools.
- Newsletter/blog: best for long-term ownership and deeper trust.
If you want the simplest answer
Start on X/Twitter. That’s usually the fastest place to get in front of developers, especially if you:
- post short technical insights
- share what you’re building
- comment on trends/tools
- engage with other devs consistently
Other strong places
- LinkedIn: good for devrel, B2B, founders, and career-oriented content
- YouTube: best for tutorials, demos, and long-form teaching
- Dev.to / Hashnode / Medium: good for written technical content
- Reddit / Hacker News: good for discussion, but harder to grow consistently
- Discord / Slack communities: good for building a tight niche community
Best strategy
Don’t pick just one. Use:
- One discovery platform — X, LinkedIn, YouTube
- One proof platform — GitHub
- One owned platform — newsletter or blog
If you want, I can recommend the best platform based on your goal:
- selling a dev tool
- growing a personal brand
- getting customers
- hiring developers
- launching open source
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (6 observations for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
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OpenAI,
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Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
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Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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