Max Jennings

14 Posts

Devtool home pages - 10 best practice approaches

We share some of the things we consider essential to creating an effective home or landing page for your dev tool.

Introducing Badges for Console Developer Tools of the Week

We review hundreds of tools every month to handpick the best tools that meet our review criteria for the Console Weekly newsletter. Those recognised can now grab badge embeds for their website.

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.

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.

Discover the best tools for developers

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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.

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.

How our editorial process works

Console aims to become the place developers go to find the best tools. Each week we select a handful of tools and beta releases to share with our subscribers in the Console weekly newsletter. Here is an overview of how we decide what makes the final edit each week.

Introducing Beta Console

Discover the latest developer tool betas and early access releases with Beta Console.

Why do we have an office?

Despite the current uncertainty of lockdowns our answer to "are you remote or office based?" is: "yes".

What we're doing that doesn't scale

Over the last few months at Console, we’ve been doing a lot of things that we won't be able to keep doing in the long term. While it is easy to question whether these tasks are the best use of our time, I know from experience that it is the right strategy.