How can developers get better gigs by writing and speaking?
summary
Practical roadmap: start by writing about problems that took you more than 20 minutes to solve and giving 5–10 minute talks at local meetups, then apply broadly — one panelist applied to 20 conferences and got 3 acceptances — and scale to regional events and hackathons. Concrete wins include a working IoT integration demo at a 6,000‑attendee hackers conference and contributions to Mozilla’s Common Voice multilingual dataset. Companies build a roster of 10–15 potential speakers and treat outreach as a team sport, using Hacker News, Twitter and local meetups to test material.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:15Topic
- 0:50Who am I
- 1:25Who are you
- 2:20What do you read
- 3:30What do you follow
- 5:10What makes a good developer influencer
- 6:45Dev events in India
- 8:40How to become a speaker
- 10:30Should developers talk about their projects
- 14:30Advice for developers
- 16:00Importance of thought leadership
- 18:30Employee branding
- 21:00Mozilla
- 24:10First step
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