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Who's hiring — April 2026

fmerian — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:20:59 +0000

Product engineers, Developer advocates, or Community builders?

Let's kick this year off to a great start. If you're looking for a new opportunity in the dev tools space, this post is for you.

15+ dev-first companies hiring in April 2026

Below are 15+ open roles in dev-first companies.

Featured opportunities

Dub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer #opensource
Raycast is hiring a Design Engineer
Kilo Code is hiring a Senior Software Engineer #opensource

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

That's a wrap! If this helped, please add some ❤️🦄🤯🙌🔥

Every Sunday, I hand-pick open roles in the dev tools space and post them on Twitter / X and LinkedIn.

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

v0.dev — Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web.

Start building for free

Who else's hiring?

Is your company hiring? Please let me know! Reply here or send me a DM, and I'll make sure to add it to the next edition.

See you next month — keep it up! 👋

Who's hiring — March 2026

fmerian — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:54:56 +0000

Product engineers, Developer advocates, or Community builders?

Let's kick this year off to a great start. If you're looking for a new opportunity in the dev tools space, this post is for you.

16+ dev-first companies hiring in March 2026

Below are 16+ open roles in dev-first companies.

Featured opportunities

Dub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer #opensource
Raycast is hiring a Design Engineer
Kilo Code is hiring a Senior Software Engineer #opensource

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

That's a wrap! If this helped, please add some ❤️🦄🤯🙌🔥

Every Sunday, I hand-pick open roles in the dev tools space and post them on Twitter / X and LinkedIn.

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

v0.dev — Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web.

Start building for free

Who else's hiring?

Is your company hiring? Please let me know! Reply here or send me a DM, and I'll make sure to add it to the next edition.

See you next month — keep it up! 👋

Tessl is launching today on Product Hunt!

fmerian — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:59:07 +0000

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Feb 26

Evaluate agents skills, ship 3x better code

#agents #ai #coding #productivity

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Who's hiring — February 2026

fmerian — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:30:44 +0000

Product engineers, Developer advocates, or Community builders?

Let's kick this year off to a great start. If you're looking for a new opportunity in the dev tools space, this post is for you.

13+ dev-first companies hiring in February 2026

Below are 13+ open roles in dev-first companies.

Featured opportunities

Dub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer #opensource
Raycast is hiring a Design Engineer
Kilo Code is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, remote EU #opensource

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

That's a wrap! If this helped, please add some ❤️🦄🤯🙌🔥

Every Sunday, I hand-pick open roles in the dev tools space and post them on Twitter / X and LinkedIn.

Let's talk all-things-agentic-coding-AI

Humans in the Loop is a place for people who love to use AI to ship faster, a free Slack community to join and share insights and best practices on Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers, AI code reviews, and more.

Join the community

Who else's hiring?

Is your company hiring? Please let me know! Reply here or send me a DM, and I'll make sure to add it to the next edition.

See you next month — keep it up! 👋

🔴 Live: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

fmerian — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:58:38 +0000

OSS AI coding assistant Kilo Code is launching today. This is their 3rd launch on Product Hunt.

Last year, they crushed it: Two launches, ranked respectfully #5 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Day -- among the best developer tools launched in 2025 in my opinion. No pressure.

fmerian

Sep 29 '25

How Kilo Code launched on Product Hunt

#showdev #opensource #ai #startup

Comments

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Today, they're launching Kilo Code Reviewer -- AI-powered code review agents that understand your codebase and catch bugs before merging.

I'm experimenting with something new, live blogging the launch for the next 24 hours.

Let's go.

`12:01:AM:PST` -- going live

Step 1: getting featured. Check!

For the first 4 hours of the day, Product Hunt hides upvotes and sorts the homepage randomly. This should give products "a more distributed chance at exposure early." -- Source

Here's the direct link: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

`01:01:AM:PST` -- new milestone: 100 upvotes

Product Hunt is a great place for developer tools to launch -- a place where many dev-first, open-source products like Kilo launched successfully:

Supabase (16 launches, 20 awards),
Langfuse (4 launches, 5 awards), or
Metabase (3 launches, 2 awards) for example.

`02:57:AM:PST` -- new milestone: 150 upvotes

Product Hunt helps raise awareness, get feedback, and collect testimonials — the type of materials you can reuse later on for marketing purposes.

Take this comment for instance:

As a data engineer, I’ve been using Kilo Code reviewer and it’s surprisingly data aware, not just code aware. It helps me catch pipeline changes that would only break dashboards later.

-- Pedro Heyerdahl on Product Hunt

`04:01:AM:PST` -- current status: `#1` Product of the Day

Kilo Code is currently #1 Product of the Day, with 30 comments and 199 points.

`07:00:AM:PST` -- new milestone: 331 upvotes

When Kilo first launched on Product Hunt a year ago, they got 330 points. They just surpassed it.

Product Hunt pays off in the long term. Launch, and keep launching.

Join the launch: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

The Product Hunt effect - Mastra just hit 20k stars on GitHub

fmerian — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:13:05 +0000

fmerian

Jan 21

Launching Mastra 1.0 on Product Hunt - Reasoning

#showdev #devjournal #ai #opensource

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Launching Mastra 1.0 on Product Hunt - Reasoning

fmerian — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:00:40 +0000

Mastra (YC W25) is launching on Product Hunt today, releasing stable 1.0 for building AI apps and agents, and announcing 300,000+ weekly npm downloads, 19,400+ GitHub stars, and production use at companies like Replit and WorkOS.

I had a blast working on this launch with their team, and wanted to share with you some thoughts we put into the ops.

It all started last December, when @bookercodes reached out:

We are launching 1.0 in January. Product Hunt came up and I thought of you.

Alex and I both worked at Clerk. Alex is a rare talent, and more importantly, nice and kind human. So, when I had the opportunity to collaborate with him again, this was a no brainer.

Setting up the launchpad

Here’s the reasoning we had when working on the required inputs. In one word: Consistency.

Product name: Just Mastra. It’s cleaner.
Product tagline: The most important part?¹ We kept it simple and reused the H1 from mastra.ai for consistency.
Product description: You can add up to 500 characters. We made it shorter, in 237 characters, to let the CTA visible upfront.
Thumbnail: Just the profile pic from X.
Image gallery: Product Hunt recommends adding 3 or more images. We play-and-mixed with existing blocks from mastra.ai for consistency.
Launch tags: up to 3 tags.

Pro tip: You can find the required inputs on GitHub.²

Additional thoughts

Launch timing. A launch day on Product Hunt starts at 12:01 AM PST by default. We released 1.0 yesterday, and decided to launch on Product Hunt today to maximize exposure.
Distribution channels. We focused effort on existing channels: X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Hacker News, and targeted communities — places where we are already have an audience.
Link to the launch. Last but not least, for this launch, the objective is to shine a spotlight on the open-source project and public repository so we decided to link the launch page to github.com, not mastra.ai — help us get trending, star this repo³

One more thing

Launching on Product Hunt is definitely not a one-time opportunity.

Awesome developer-first products like Supabase and Netlify have launched there multiple times (resp. 16 and 14 times). Product Hunt is about consistency.

Wrapping up

That's it! Mastra is launching today on Product Hunt.

Join the launch

Reverse-engineering Cursor's recent launches

fmerian — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:42:01 +0000

Last month, Cursor launched for the fifth time on Product Hunt in 2025.

The 2024 Product of the Year still hits the charts. They have launched web and mobile agents, a visual editor, and 2.0, consistently ranking in the Top 5 Products of the Day.

I had a look at their recent launches. Here's what I found.

What Cursor did right

Straightforward tagline. The 60-character tagline might be the most important part of a launch. It's the first thing you see on the front page. What makes Cursor stand out? They highlight the features, not the benefits.
Minimalist visual assets. The image gallery is the first impression of your product. It sets expectations. Cursor's recent launches highlighted 2 to 4 images. No stock images, no marketing fluff, just product screenshots. They show the product.
Found a Hunter. Ben Lang was the hunter of their latest launches - an established user with 50K+ followers, among the 2022 Community Members of the Year (runner-up). It might help increase their reach.
Feedback first. Like the tagline and visual assets, the first comment is the simplest. No looooooong background stories, they're just genuinely curious about what the community thinks of the release.
Riding the tailwinds. Last but not least, the launch timing. They first announced the product updates on X, gained momentum, and then launched on Product Hunt the next day, riding the tailwinds.

Final thoughts

For context, Cursor has 20K+ followers on Product Hunt. It certainly helps get more exposure. However, IMHO it's only part of the formula. Straightforward tagline, minimalist image gallery, simple comments... It all resonates with developers, their target audience. To quote Lee Robinson on what great developer marketing looks like:

Great marketing values your time; every word matters. Show them how to build interesting things; don’t fill a post with 1,000 words of garbage.

-- Lee Robinson (Vercel, Cursor)

Developers are resistant to anything that looks, sounds, or smells like marketing. Cursor keeps it simple, and it works.

How to apply this to your launch

Keep the tagline relatable to your audience
Show the product in your image gallery
Find a Hunter
Engage with the community thoughtfully
The right time to launch could be now

Over to you! What are your key learnings from your previous product launches? What worked, what didn't work from your perspective?

Join the discussion on Product Hunt

Who's hiring — January 2026

fmerian — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:52:15 +0000

Product engineers, Developer advocates, or Community builders?

Let's kick this year off to a great start. If you're looking for a new opportunity in the dev tools space, this post is for you.

13+ dev-first companies hiring in January 2026

Below are 13+ open roles in dev-first companies.

Featured opportunities

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

That's a wrap! If this helped, please add some ❤️🦄🤯🙌🔥

Every Sunday, I hand-pick open roles in the dev tools space and post them on Twitter / X and LinkedIn.

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

v0.dev — Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web.

Start building for free

Who else's hiring?

Is your company hiring? Please let me know! Reply here or send me a DM, and I'll make sure to add it to the next edition.

See you next month — keep it up! 👋

The State of Open Source 2025 - Key Takeaways

fmerian — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:23:44 +0000

GitHub recently published this year's Octoverse, the state of the open-source ecosystem.

Below are my key takeaways.

AI doesn’t replace developers—it brings more people into the ecosystem. A new developer joined GitHub every second in 2025. Top 5 developer populations: 1. United States, 2. India, 3. China, 4. Brazil, 5. United Kingdom.
Open source remains the foundation. Fastest-growing OSS projects by contributors include zen-browser, vscode, and AI-focused continue.
TypeScript is now the most used language on GitHub, overtook both Python and JavaScript. The AI effect? 80% of new repositories used just six languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, and C#.
Generative AI is now standard in development. 1.1M public repositories now use an LLM SDK.
Agents are here. Coding agents created 1M+ pull requests (PR) in the last 6 months, and it's just getting started.

See full report here - Any results that struck you?

Update: Supabase is now in the Top 100 most-starred repositories on GitHub with 95,435 stars

fmerian — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:52:26 +0000

fmerian

Nov 15 '23

How Supabase grew from 0 to 50K+ GitHub stars

#startup #opensource #github

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Who's hiring — December 2025

fmerian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:27:00 +0000

Product engineers, Developer advocates, or Community builders?

If you're looking for a new opportunity in the dev tools space, this post is for you.

20+ dev-first companies hiring in December 2025

Below are 20+ open roles in dev-first companies.

Featured opportunities

More open roles

Cursor is hiring a Growth Engineer
Helicone AI is hiring a Founding Engineer #opensource
Kilo Code is hiring a Community Builder #opensource
Langfuse is hiring a DevRel Engineer #opensource
Meilisearch is hiring a Senior Software Engineer #opensource
Nango is hiring a Founding DevRel
PostHog is hiring a Design Engineer #opensource
Resend is hiring an Open Source Engineer #opensource
SigNoz is hiring a DevRel Engineer #opensource
Snyk is hiring an Engineering Manager
Speakeasy is hiring a Product Engineer
Thesys is hiring an AI Software Developer Lead
TwelveLabs is hiring Fullstack Engineers
Zed is hiring a Rust Engineer #opensource

From previous editions

Wrapping up

That's a wrap! If this helped, please add some ❤️🦄🤯🙌🔥

Every Sunday, I hand-pick open roles in the dev tools space and post them on Twitter / X and LinkedIn.

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

v0.dev — Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web.

Start building for free

Who else's hiring?

Is your company hiring? Please let me know! Reply here or send me a DM, and I'll make sure to add it to the next edition.

See you next month — keep it up! 👋

Forem: fmerian

Who's hiring — April 2026

15+ dev-first companies hiring in April 2026

Featured opportunities

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

Who else's hiring?

Who's hiring — March 2026

16+ dev-first companies hiring in March 2026

Featured opportunities

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

Who else's hiring?

Tessl is launching today on Product Hunt!

Evaluate agents skills, ship 3x better code

Who's hiring — February 2026

13+ dev-first companies hiring in February 2026

Featured opportunities

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

Let's talk all-things-agentic-coding-AI

Who else's hiring?

🔴 Live: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

How Kilo Code launched on Product Hunt

12:01:AM:PST -- going live

01:01:AM:PST -- new milestone: 100 upvotes

02:57:AM:PST -- new milestone: 150 upvotes

04:01:AM:PST -- current status: #1 Product of the Day

07:00:AM:PST -- new milestone: 331 upvotes

The Product Hunt effect - Mastra just hit 20k stars on GitHub

Launching Mastra 1.0 on Product Hunt - Reasoning

Launching Mastra 1.0 on Product Hunt - Reasoning

Setting up the launchpad

Additional thoughts

One more thing

Wrapping up

Reverse-engineering Cursor's recent launches

What Cursor did right

Final thoughts

How to apply this to your launch

Who's hiring — January 2026

13+ dev-first companies hiring in January 2026

Featured opportunities

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

Who else's hiring?

The State of Open Source 2025 - Key Takeaways

Update: Supabase is now in the Top 100 most-starred repositories on GitHub with 95,435 stars

How Supabase grew from 0 to 50K+ GitHub stars

Who's hiring — December 2025

20+ dev-first companies hiring in December 2025

Featured opportunities

More open roles

From previous editions

Wrapping up

Think it. Build it. Ship it.

Who else's hiring?

`12:01:AM:PST` -- going live

`01:01:AM:PST` -- new milestone: 100 upvotes

`02:57:AM:PST` -- new milestone: 150 upvotes

`04:01:AM:PST` -- current status: `#1` Product of the Day

`07:00:AM:PST` -- new milestone: 331 upvotes