Hey, developer! We need experts who are in the biz and want to share their advice and knowledge with other developers in the community. If you’ve got some killer stories to tell or some ideas about growth and career development, we’d love to hear them.
We don’t claim to know it all, and that’s why we’re asking you (actual developers!) to share your stories and advice with the rest of the community.
What we publish
We publish articles ranging from 900–2,500+ words. Our articles are always geared specifically towards developers (software engineers, CTO’s, web developers, etc.). They are personal and rooted in experiences/real-world knowledge rather. We generally avoid listicles, basic tips & tricks or super technical how-tos.
So what DO we want? Here are some great places to start looking for stories:
- What are some of the challenges you face? Why?
- What are some of the challenges you have overcome? How? We like anecdotes, hard facts, observations, opinions — hit us with it all. We don’t cover deep technical topics; think about the softer side of software engineering.
- What crazy things have happened in your workplace and how did you cope?
- …or talk about life around code. Open source, productivity tips, anything you love or hate.
How to submit
Email us your pitches, notions or buzzwords along with a bit about your work and experience. Include a link to your portfolio or blog so we can get an idea of your writing skills and expertise.
Email your pitches to editorial@honeypot.io with the subject line: “Honeypot Submission”
What happens next?
Everything submitted will be reviewed by our editors. We can’t respond to every inquiry we get, but we’ll always reach out if we think your skills or pitch are a good match. Please know that we read every pitch and really appreciate the time it takes to reach out.
Note that cross-posting is okay, but we do have a few rules:
- If reposting to your personal site or blog, please use a canonical so that there is no double up in the eyes of Google.
- Please link back to us. A sentence like “Originally posted on Honeypot.io [link]” — something like this is fine.
- One final thing. Please wait at least three weeks before posting on your blog or elsewhere after we publish it ourselves. This is really important. It will make us pretty sad if this happens.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you know anyone else who fits the description send them our way or share this post! Thanks from the future!
P.S. If you have some previous great work which you think will fit well with our new platform, let us know and we can discuss hosting it there too.
Cheers,
Honeypot Editorial Team.
