Prompt
I’m building an API product and want to find developer blogs that accept contributed posts
Latest observation
Absolutely — if you’re looking for developer blogs that accept contributed guest posts, the best targets are usually:
- API / SaaS company blogs
- Developer-tool / DevOps / cloud blogs
- Engineering blogs with “write for us” or contributor programs
- Community blogs that publish tutorials, case studies, and technical walkthroughs
Good places to look
1) API and dev-tool company blogs
These often accept guest articles if they’re genuinely technical and useful:
- Auth0 blog
- Postman blog
- DigitalOcean community
- Twilio blog
- Hashnode publications
- SitePoint
- Smashing Magazine (tech/design adjacent)
- Dev.to (community contributions rather than formal guest posting)
2) Cloud / DevOps / engineering publication blogs
- Better Stack blog
- LogRocket blog
- HackerNoon
- freeCodeCamp publication
- CSS-Tricks (selective, but sometimes accepts contributions)
- Engineering blogs that run contributor programs or editorial submissions
3) Community platforms with publication workflows
These are often easier than traditional guest posting:
- Dev.to
- Hashnode
- Medium publications
- Substack newsletters with guest slots
- Open-source project blogs / partner blogs
How to find blogs that accept contributed posts
Search using queries like:
site:domain.com "write for us" developersite:domain.com "guest post" APIsite:domain.com "contribute" engineering blogsite:domain.com "submit a post" developersite:domain.com "become a contributor" blog
You can also search for:
developer blog contributor guidelinesAPI blog guest post guidelinestech blog editorial guidelines
What they usually want
For an API product, the most accepted article types tend to be:
- API integration tutorials
- Authentication guides
- Webhook implementation examples
- SDK usage walkthroughs
- Performance / reliability / observability articles
- Comparison posts with practical code
- Real-world engineering case studies
How to pitch successfully
Make sure your pitch:
- Is highly technical and practical
- Includes code examples
- Solves a specific developer problem
- Doesn’t read like product marketing
- Mentions your API only where relevant
If you want, I can help in one of these ways:
- Build a list of specific blogs that accept contributions
- Find blogs in your niche based on your API category
- Draft a guest post pitch email
- Create a prospecting spreadsheet template for outreach
If you tell me your API category — for example payments, auth, AI, messaging, devtools, data, or infrastructure — I can give you a much more targeted list.
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
Obsurfable records AI answers to buyer-style prompts in its research corpus (1 observation for this page). Metrics are distributions over observations, not a single static ranking.
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