# DevRel Directory

> The main place for Developer Relations: guides, tools, communities, and jobs for DevRel professionals.

## Docs

- [Start Here](https://devrel.directory/docs): An open knowledge base for Developer Relations - what DevRel is, how the roles differ, and how to build a program that works.

- **Fundamentals**
- [Definition of Developer Relations](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/definition): A working definition of DevRel, what it is not, where the function should report, and how the definition shifts with company stage and product type.
- [The Business Case for DevRel](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/importance): Why DevRel is worth funding - the network-effects mechanism behind developer-first growth, what neglect actually costs, and how to defend the budget internally.
- [DevRel Roles and Responsibilities](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/roles-and-responsibilities): The four classic DevRel roles, the modern titles that grew out of them, who to hire first at each company stage, and where the team should report.
- [DevRel Strategy](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/devrel-strategy): A reference framework for building a DevRel strategy - goals, audience, activities, and metrics - plus the failure modes that sink most programs.
- [Understanding Developer Personas and Needs](https://devrel.directory/docs/fundamentals/understanding-developer-personas): How to build research-backed developer personas - a field-by-field template, a fully worked example, and the research methods that justify every claim.

- **AI-era DevRel**
- [Agents Are Your New Developers](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/agents-as-your-new-developers): A growing share of first contact with your product is an AI agent acting for a developer. What that changes for DevRel, and what to do about it.
- [Writing Docs LLMs Can Use](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/docs-for-llms): llms.txt, Markdown mirrors, and the structural habits that make documentation retrievable and quotable by AI assistants.
- [MCP Servers Are the New SDK](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/mcp-servers-as-devrel-surface): Why an MCP server is a developer relations surface, what to expose through it, and the DevRel work that makes one succeed.
- [Measuring Adoption You Cannot See](https://devrel.directory/docs/ai-era/measuring-ai-driven-adoption): Why classic web analytics undercount AI-driven adoption, what you can actually measure, and how to report it honestly.

- **Practices**
- [DevRel Activities](https://devrel.directory/docs/practices/devrel-activities): The core activities of Developer Relations work, when each one earns its place, and how to combine a few of them into a coherent program.
- [Community Building](https://devrel.directory/docs/practices/community-building): How to start, grow, and sustain a developer community, from the first fifty members to programs that scale, plus how to show up well in communities you do not own.
- [Content Creation](https://devrel.directory/docs/practices/content-creation): Planning, writing, and distributing developer content that actually gets used, from quickstarts to long-form guides, with a pipeline a small team can sustain.

- **Additional Resources**
- [Contributing to devrel.directory](https://devrel.directory/docs/additional-resources/contributing): What contributions are welcome, how changes land, and the editorial bar every page has to clear.

## Blog

- [Welcome to devrel.directory - Your Hub for Developer Relations](https://devrel.directory/blog/2024-10-25-what-is-the-devrel-directory-and-how-to-contribute): An introduction to devrel.directory and a comprehensive guide on how to contribute to this community-driven project, shaping the future of Developer Relations
- [Goals Planning for your DevRel Team using OKRs](https://devrel.directory/blog/2024-10-29-devrel-team-goal-planning-strategy-okr)
- [DevRel Strategy - A Comprehensive Guide](https://devrel.directory/blog/2024-11-06-devrel-strategy): Creating and implementing effective Developer Relations strategies
- [devrel.directory is back](https://devrel.directory/blog/2026-07-10-devrel-directory-relaunch): The site has a new design, an actual directory, a jobs board, and AI-friendly docs. Why it went quiet, what changed, and where it goes from here.

## Directory

- [DevRel directory](https://devrel.directory/directory): curated directory of Developer Relations tools, communities, newsletters, podcasts, and agencies

## Jobs

- [DevRel jobs](https://devrel.directory/jobs): open Developer Relations roles

## Optional

- [Full documentation content](https://devrel.directory/llms-full.txt): all docs pages in one Markdown file