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Apologies for grammar-police'ing here but ...

> Advertising to developers with feels like asking for trouble.

~with~. "Advertising to developers feels like asking for trouble."

Looking forward to reading the rest of this :)



And this amazing piece of text:

> CircleCi is (or was) remarketing withyoutube pre-roll video ads to people who with case study testimonials to users who visited the page but haven’t signed up


Remarketing ads towards people based on past browsing history is stalking, full stop.


Yeah, not my proudest moment -> fixed


sounds like they had three cups of tea while writing that sentence.


maybe that was part of their marketing the article to you.


Effective! Seriously!


Thanks for finding those.

Not sure how I fk it up when updating/editing.

But I did...


Is this the nitpick thread? Here’s mine: there’s a horizontal overflow on iOS, so it’s difficult to scroll vertically down the y-axis of the page without accidentally scrolling on the x-axis too. This is a pet peeve of mine and so many websites (my own included at times) do this.

But thanks for sharing your site and this analysis. It’s easy to trust your authority on the matter in the title of this post, considering its current ranking on the front page of HN!

Will you post a follow-up with numbers analyzing today’s success of marketing to developers who market to developers? :)




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