When entering a career, you have to find something that makes you competitive—something that makes someone say, "Hey, I want to hire this person so...
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Any reason you skipped over GitHub? I feel like building a following on GitHub via some open source contributions and creating packages, frameworks and apps can go a long way in gaining respect and popularity in the dev community.
Another one that I think is missing is a personal website. Many of the well known developers have their own website where they promote projects, blog articles and share opinions about important topics and issues
Yes, those are definitely interesting 🤔 I would prefer a Github as with a README, you can easily have something that can serve as a portfolio exposing your work.
Great take about github and personal website. The personal website can be used as the main hub for all your work / social links and etc
You should also try pinkary.com. It's a growing social media platform for developers by developers.
this looks nice actually. thanks for sharing Mohammed
Had never heard of it, interesting!
It's upcoming. Soon, it will be among one of the best ones.
Quite useful article, as for me, I was kinda succesful at some point of growing on LinkedIn, but to be honest, it's a platform of most unhonest people who comment and post just to increase their SSI with almost no interesting things.
It's hard to compete there if you're trying to make a quality, not a quantity. And I am not even mentioning too obvious usage of ChatGPT.
I am planning to get back to the LinkedIn and try something on other platforms, so great to have this article with some references, bcz tbh it's hard to find where's to start
Few years ago, you could only post 2 times per week and it would be enough. Now with AI and more people posting there, it seems you have to post a lot. However, I noticed that video content actually does pretty well there.
thanks for sharing your experience
In addition, totally agree about pressure: quite important thing to avoid, I couldn't do anything apart creating posts for LinkedIn that would be at least not trash just to post something
Don't churn content for the sake of it, there's more than enough terrible content already and only getting worse by the day. You only need an online presence if you want one. If you're doing it to get a job, forget it. Most hiring managers, or at least those worth their salt, won't care they'll be more interested in seeing some of your code and how you approach a problem opposed to seeing you active in multiple different places. Do what you enjoy and show that if you need examples.
that's a fair approach too
I'm a dev and founder and I've got a presence. It's great for forming connections with other creators in the programming/development niche. If you're good at it you can get quite some business too!
Appreciate these tips!
Yes, I got a lot of contracts regarding technical writing and software engineering following those tips.
Thanks for appreciating my work
Great article - informative, and fun to read!
thank you leob
Quite an interesting content. Skills not marketed will be redundant in this era of online presence race. You hit the nail on the head. Thank you.
yes. thank you for reading Fareed
I think I'm pretty OK with my articles here on dev.to, but Im not at all consistent with pursuing an audience.
I want to improve on this, but my plan is non existence 😅.
Thanks for this!
Does dev.to pays anything ?
No, but it has great SEO. If your articles are doing well too, you can have paid affiliate links. Just make sure to tell it to your readers.
If it is not providing something to creators then why do any creator will prefer this.
i think that because there is some pro when it comes to SEO. i have many articles that are relatively well referenced. Also, the community here is interesting
Your words are different from the social reality through focus writing and you describe it in a soulful way, which is likened to a writer as a story writer.
Super article, I'll be going back to it several times for sure. Take care man
thanks man. take care of you too
Cringe was totally new for me, but was 110% true! I like the way you see things. Really, in the world of digital media, if you want to play the game, those are the rules.
Exactly. Most of the time I will try to have a catchy first sentence and a picture and drop some useful stuff in the content. This is the game unfortunately and I noticed it has increased in this AI era
Thanks for this post but do you have to be an expert developer before you can start posting content online.
No, there is no need to be an expert. However, be honest about that and make sure you are learning, and experimenting and you can state it to avoid backlash.
Alright
Stack overflow seems like an obvious place as well. Any reason why you left it out?
It has been a longtime since I have used it/commented on it. I answered some questions there and had some good discussions but I found myself having more success on the platforms I cited above.
Having a good portfolio on top 10 main platform will help you growing a professional developer.