murtza

Location: San Francisco (SF Bay Area)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: developer documentation, technical writing, Marketo, Marketo API, marketing automation

Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/murtzam

Email: hi@murtza.org

I am looking for contract work around writing developer documentation or developer blog posts. I am also available for Marketo and marketing automation consulting projects.

As other people in this thread mentioned, I would recommend testing different messaging to see what resonates with your target group (devs and devops at startups). I would also recommend testing different online and offline channels to find this specific group.

Here's a post I wrote that lists the developer marketing channels to try: http://murtza.org/driving-the-api-adoption-funnel/

Check out this app launch guide on GitHub: https://github.com/adamwulf/app-launch-guide

If you are doing this verification on the client-side, you can restrict form submissions when a user enters a free email address like Gmail or Yahoo.

Here's a post I wrote with an implementation of this approach (specific to Marketo forms, but can be made generic for any form): http://developers.marketo.com/blog/restrict-free-email-domai...

I would also recommend labeling the email address field on the form, "Work Email."

You are right. It is not a good user experience. I just took off the newsletter sign up.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll start adding phrase origins to the site.

I am working on a project to define phrases in English like "close, but no cigar".

Here's the page for this phrase: http://jargonism.com/words/437

I would be interested to hear feedback from HN on what would be useful on the word page, in addition to a definition and an example?

Company: Marketo

About: Marketo helps marketers master the art and science of digital marketing.

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Tokyo, Sydney, REMOTE

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Account Executive, Sales Development Representative, Technical Consultant, Product Manager

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3IzZMgwN

Company: Marketo

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Tokyo, New York, REMOTE

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use marketing software that turns marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Account Executive, Sales Development Representative, Technical Consultant, Product Manager

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Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3IzZMgwN

Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com

Marketo (http://www.marketo.com/)

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Tokyo, New York, REMOTE

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use marketing software that turns marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Front End Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Account Executive, Sales Development Representative, Technical Consultant

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3IzZMgwN

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Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com

Jonathan LeBlanc of PayPal, Rob Spectre of Twilio, and Neil Mansilla of Mashery are examples of great developer evangelists.

Here is a list of interview questions to ask a developer evangelist candidate:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Evangelist-Interview-Qu...

Marketo (http://www.marketo.com/)

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use marketing software that turns marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Product Manager, Account Executive

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3HryEgw5

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Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com

Marketo (http://www.marketo.com/)

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use, powerful and complete marketing software that propels fast-growing small companies and global enterprises, turning marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Product Manager, Account Executive

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3ovuAgwI

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Any questions? Please email me at mmanzur@marketo.com

I maintain a list of upcoming developer conferences in this GitHub repo:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Conferences

Code Complete. I am only halfway through the book, but the lessons I have learned have already helped me improve how I design and develop software.

Submissions to HN are allowed based on unique URLs.

Each of the submissions to that wiki article have slightly different link structures. For example, one has a trailing "/" and one does not.

/r/startups and /r/sideproject currently have linkbacks to each other. Are there any other ways you would suggest?

I mod /r/SideProject, which is a subreddit similar to Product Hunt. Do you have any recommendations on how to prevent the subreddit from turning into an echo chamber?

http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject

To get more exposure, consider posting the fellowship to these subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/datascience

http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/

http://www.reddit.com/r/statistics

http://www.reddit.com/r/machinelearning/

If you have not already, I would recommend reaching out to these companies to sponsor: Cloudera, Palantir, New Relic, Tableau, Domo.

Thanks! I'm happy that the list is useful. I was searching around for a comprehensive list, but I couldn't find one. So I decided to create this repo.

I have been tracking upcoming developer conferences like Nginx Conference in this repo:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Conferences

I currently track conference name, website, hashtag, and city. I am also considering adding a list of sponsors and speakers for each conference.

What other data would be useful or interesting?

Marketo (http://www.marketo.com/)

Locations: San Mateo, Portland, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Dublin

Background: Marketo provides easy-to-use, powerful and complete marketing software that propels fast-growing small companies and global enterprises, turning marketing from a cost center into a revenue driver.

Roles: Software Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Product Manager, Account Executive

Apply: http://jobvite.com/m?3a2usgwT

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Any questions? Please email me at hi@murtza.org.

The difference between a developer advocate and a developer evangelist is inbound vs outbound.

Developer advocates are focused on helping address developers' problems. Developer evangelists are focused on increasing product use and adoption.

That said, the responsibility of these positions mostly overlap. In my personal experience as a developer evangelist at Marketo, my day-to-day work has encompassed the function of both titles. My goal is to create a great developer experience [0] in order to drive platform adoption [1].

Anecdotally, I have noticed a shift towards the developer advocate title. At Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter, the role is called this.

[0] http://murtza.org/creating-a-great-developer-experience/

[1] http://murtza.org/driving-the-api-adoption-funnel/

I maintain a list of upcoming developer conferences in this GitHub repo:

https://github.com/MurtzaM/Developer-Conferences

I currently track conference name, website, hashtag, and city. I am also considering adding a list of sponsors for each conference.

What other data would be useful or interesting?

Hadoop.

Thanks!

No reason. I like the idea of randomly inserting them.

Good point. I should include ability for a domain exclusion list.

Your comment made me think of an idea. There is a device called LUMOback. Integrating LUMOback and this extension coudl generate a slouch metric.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lumoback/lumoback-the-s...

The extension needs access to the DOM when the page is loaded to find and replace words.

The extension works locally on the client. It does not send your data anywhere or talk to any third-party servers.