{"id":11200,"date":"2026-06-03T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:15:08","slug":"how-wed-market-to-software-developers-at-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/how-wed-market-to-software-developers-at-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"How We&#8217;d Market to Software Developers at Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you market to developers? Developers have a reputation: they block your ads, they smell marketing-speak from three sentences away, they trust a random GitHub repo over your whole campaign, and if they&#8217;re reading this, they are rolling their eyes (hi Casey!). So most teams either throw money at LinkedIn ABM, or they decide developers are &#8220;unmarketable&#8221; and go around them to a VP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both moves skip the obvious first step. So instead of guessing, we ran a SparkToro report on software developers at startups in the U.S. Three findings genuinely surprised me \u2014 and at least one of them flips the standard playbook on its head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-10.12.15-PM-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-10.12.15-PM-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-10.12.15-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-10.12.15-PM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-10.12.15-PM-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-03-at-10.12.15-PM.png 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insight #1: This audience uses Google less than the average American \u2014 and has already gone AI-native<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No surprise, this audience real is AI redpilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what did surprise me is that only <strong>81.9%<\/strong> of this audience uses Google, compared with <strong>95.5%<\/strong> of the U.S. population \u2014 a 14% under-index. Sit with that for a second. Software developers are basically online for a living and yet, they use Google <em>less<\/em> than your average person does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/search-and-ai-tools-software-developers-at-startups-1024x607.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/search-and-ai-tools-software-developers-at-startups-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/search-and-ai-tools-software-developers-at-startups-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/search-and-ai-tools-software-developers-at-startups-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/search-and-ai-tools-software-developers-at-startups-1536x911.png 1536w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/search-and-ai-tools-software-developers-at-startups-2048x1215.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So where did that attention go? Some of it to ChatGPT \u2014 but not in the way you&#8217;d expect. ChatGPT lands right around the national average for this group (34.2% use it, a 5% under-index). Everyone uses ChatGPT now. It&#8217;s table stakes, not a differentiator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The differentiator is Claude. About <strong>21% of this audience uses Claude, and they over-index by nearly 299%<\/strong> \u2014 roughly four times the national rate. (If that rings a bell, it should: our <a href=\"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/audience-research-brief-how-wed-market-to-mid-market-revops-leaders\/\">mid-market RevOps audience<\/a> over-indexed hard on Claude too. There&#8217;s a pattern forming with technical buyers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the AI-native story keeps going as you move down the list into power-user territory: Perplexity over-indexes by 63%, Brave by 43%, DeepSeek by 22%, plus a long tail of developer-favored tools \u2014 Kagi, Phind, even searchcode \u2014 that barely register with the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does that mean for marketing? The classic SEO question \u2014 &#8220;how do we rank #1 on Google for developers?&#8221; \u2014 matters less than you&#8217;ve been told. More accurate would be to ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When a developer asks Claude or Perplexity about your category, do you show up \u2014 and do you show up <em>accurately<\/em>?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For this audience, AI visibility isn&#8217;t a side quest. It&#8217;s a primary channel. And &#8220;AI&#8221; doesn&#8217;t just mean ChatGPT \u2014 if you&#8217;re not paying attention to how you&#8217;re represented inside Claude specifically, you&#8217;re invisible in the exact tool this audience uses most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insight #2: The &#8220;social network&#8221; that matters most here is GitHub.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The default B2B instinct for any audience is to leverage LinkedIn for account-based marketing. For developers at startups, that instinct fights the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LinkedIn actually under-indexes<\/strong> for this group \u2014 56.7% use it, which is 19% <em>below<\/em> the national average. Compare that to our RevOps leaders, where LinkedIn over-indexed by 15%. Same platform, opposite direction, different audience. This is the entire reason you research before you spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/social-networks-software-developers-at-startups-1024x607.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/social-networks-software-developers-at-startups-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/social-networks-software-developers-at-startups-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/social-networks-software-developers-at-startups-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/social-networks-software-developers-at-startups-1536x911.png 1536w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/social-networks-software-developers-at-startups-2048x1215.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So what <em>is<\/em> the platform? <strong>GitHub.<\/strong> A full <strong>72.4% of this audience uses GitHub, and they over-index by 64%.<\/strong> It&#8217;s the most-used social platform here after YouTube, and the most over-indexed one at any real scale. Marketers almost never put GitHub on a media plan \u2014 you can&#8217;t exactly buy a banner ad on a pull request \u2014 but it&#8217;s where developers actually spend their attention and build their trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few more that reward a closer look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Medium<\/strong> over-indexes by 40% \u2014 developers read and write long-form technical posts there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dribbble<\/strong> over-indexes by 60% \u2014 that&#8217;s the designers and design-engineers in the building.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Slack<\/strong> over-indexes by 13% \u2014 likely workplace use, but a signal that community lives in private channels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>YouTube<\/strong> is still the single most-used platform (76.3%). It under-indexes slightly, but the absolute reach is too big to ignore for top-of-funnel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And the platforms marketers love to default to? They all under-index, and not by a little: TikTok (\u221247%), Pinterest (\u221249%), Quora (\u221262%), Facebook (\u221230%), Instagram (\u221227%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developer attention is earned, not bought. You reach this audience by being genuinely useful on the surfaces they already trust \u2014 a great open-source repo, docs that don&#8217;t make them want to scream, a tool that does one thing well, an honest technical post \u2014 not by retargeting them around the open web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insight #3: Whatever the platform, the conversation is about careers, comp, and AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now look at what this audience is actually <em>prompting AI about<\/em>, and it&#8217;s not &#8220;best CI\/CD pipeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s jobs. The top AI prompt topics read like a career-coaching syllabus: Remote Developer Job Opportunities (94 affinity), US Tech Startup Ecosystem (91), Best US Remote Companies to Work For (85), Tech Salary Guide for US (83), Programming Jobs for Beginners (81). &#8220;AI Tools for Software Developers&#8221; shows up too (58) \u2014 but the common theme is career, compensation, and remote work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/topics-software-developers-at-startups-1024x940.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/topics-software-developers-at-startups-1024x940.png 1024w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/topics-software-developers-at-startups-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/topics-software-developers-at-startups-768x705.png 768w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/topics-software-developers-at-startups.png 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The search keyword data tells the same story: &#8220;remote developer us,&#8221; &#8220;tech jobs usa,&#8221; &#8220;startup software jobs,&#8221; &#8220;software engineer positions,&#8221; &#8220;entry level developer jobs,&#8221; &#8220;startup equity calculator,&#8221; &#8220;faang vs startup pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the communities back it up. The #1 subreddit for this audience is <strong>r\/cscareerquestions<\/strong> \u2014 a perfect 100 affinity \u2014 followed by r\/learnprogramming, r\/programming, and r\/webdev, and then the indie\/startup cluster: <strong>r\/IndieDev, r\/startups, r\/EntrepreneurRideAlong.<\/strong> Career anxiety, skill-building, and startup dreams, all in one feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/subreddits-software-developers-at-startups-990x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/subreddits-software-developers-at-startups-990x1024.png 990w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/subreddits-software-developers-at-startups-290x300.png 290w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/subreddits-software-developers-at-startups-768x795.png 768w, https:\/\/images.sparktoro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/subreddits-software-developers-at-startups.png 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On podcasts, the affinity list is almost entirely AI shows \u2014 Latent Space (the AI Engineer podcast), Practical AI, The AI Daily Brief, Last Week in AI, Software Engineering Daily. If you want to buy your way into this audience&#8217;s ears, AI-engineering podcasts are the lane, full stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another nugget of wisdom: this audience actually skews <em>experienced<\/em> \u2014 roughly two-thirds have 6 to 20 years in the field \u2014 which sits in fascinating tension with all that entry-level, job-search-flavored search behavior. Read it as a defining feature of this world: developers are perpetually evaluating their next move, their comp, and their stack, no matter how senior they get. <strong>Comp, career, and AI tooling are evergreen hooks here.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developers don&#8217;t want to be marketed to. They&#8217;re researching their careers and their tech stack. Show up with content that genuinely helps with those two things, and you&#8217;ve earned a hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A transparent note on the data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spirit of transparency we owe you: &#8220;software developers at startups&#8221; is interpreted by SparkToro through <em>affinity<\/em>, not a verified headcount filter. About 72% of this audience sits in software, IT, or internet companies (48% in software specifically), which is a tight, on-target cohort \u2014 but there&#8217;s no literal company-size cut, so &#8220;at startups&#8221; really means &#8220;developers who index toward startup and indie-tech interests.&#8221; If you wanted a stricter definition, you&#8217;d refine the description further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also: a couple of the niche tools in that Search &amp; AI panel (Kagi, Phind, searchcode, you.com) post eye-popping over-index numbers that are artifacts of tiny national baselines \u2014 directionally telling, not precise. We left the broad cohort as-is because it better reflects the universe a dev-tools company is actually trying to reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we&#8217;d actually do with this<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the 30-minute exercise you can run today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pull an audience research report. Take the top sources from Search &amp; AI Tools, Social Networks, Subreddits, Podcasts, Keywords, and AI Prompt Topics. Lay them next to your current plan, and ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where are you already spending?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where are you creating content?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where are you trying to earn mentions?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where are you completely absent?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, depending on your seat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A demand gen marketer<\/strong> might notice that a plan built on LinkedIn ABM and retargeting is fighting the data \u2014 and test developer-native surfaces instead: open source, docs-as-marketing, an AI-engineering podcast sponsorship, or a genuinely useful free tool.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A content marketer<\/strong> might build around careers, comp, remote work, and AI tooling \u2014 the things this audience is already searching and prompting for \u2014 instead of the topics we <em>wish<\/em> they cared about. (Bonus points if those terms have decent search volume.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A brand marketer<\/strong> might start checking how the product shows up in Claude and Perplexity specifically \u2014 not just ChatGPT \u2014 since Claude is the tool this audience reaches for roughly 4x more than average.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A partnership marketer<\/strong> might court AI-engineering podcasts and credible career\/indie creators before chasing the biggest, most obvious developer brands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A product marketer<\/strong> might rewrite the landing page in the language straight out of the keyword and prompt data. Developers can smell positioning-speak; a good product marketer would mirror how they actually describe the problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And a CEO or CMO might ask the harder question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are we marketing to developers the way we&#8217;re comfortable marketing \u2014 or the way developers actually learn, search, and decide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audience research won&#8217;t make developers love marketing. But it&#8217;ll stop you from spending a quarter&#8217;s budget shouting on the channels they tuned out years ago \u2014 and point you toward the few places they&#8217;re actually paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you market to developers? Developers have a reputation: they block your ads, they smell marketing-speak from three sentences away, they trust a random GitHub repo over your whole campaign, and if they&#8217;re reading this, they are rolling their eyes (hi Casey!). 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