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How to communicate your brand to developers (Launch Series Part 2)

You've got the framework for your brand in place, now it's time to share your brand with the world. This guide explores some of the practical things you can do to communicate your brand to developers during the early stages of your product launch.

Status update - 2021-08

Console status update - August 2021: some time off.

How to build a brand for developers (Launch Series Part 1)

Many founders fail to define their brand's positioning until it is too late. In the first of the Console Launch series we set out a simple framework for how to build a brand for developers.

Automated website performance testing with GitHub Actions, k6 and Cloudflare Workers

Speed is a key feature of all the best developer tools so the Console website needs to be fast. How we use k6 inside GitHub Actions to run performance tests on every commit.

Console Newsletter - A free weekly email digest of the best tools and beta releases for developers. Every Thursday. See the latest email.

Google owns email, just like search

Running a fast growing newsletter for the last 6 months has revealed that Googlebot is not just about the web.

Status update - 2021-07

Console status update - July 2021: podcast and category reviews.

Introducing: Console Launch Series

Introducing a new series of posts designed to help early stage start-ups grow their audience.

Engagement is everything: Privacy and newsletter metrics that matter

Why tracking clicks is the only metric we need to know whether the Console developer tools newsletter is performing.

How our developer Q&A interview process works

One of the most enjoyable parts of running Console is speaking to the talented developers that build the tools we love. Here's a rundown of our interview process.

Status update - 2021-06

Console status update - June 2021: Mars research article, website tools directory, podcast, moving office and commercial experiments.

Introducing the Console DevTools Podcast

On 8th July we'll be releasing our first podcast episode, no longer than 15 minutes, discussing the tools featured in the Console weekly newsletter.

Apple's Mail Privacy Protection is a necessary step that helps small publishers

Click rate is the way to measure engagement because it aligns the incentives of the reader (they want to check out something interesting) with the sender (provide interesting content). You get privacy as part of that.

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