How to get published on Level Up Coding
Share your experience and what you’ve learned about software development, tech, startups, and engineering
The foundation of gitconnected is sharing knowledge and helping each other grow as a community. We will outline the steps to have your articles be published on gitconnected. Be sure to follow the gitconnected publication to help support our community of authors which we hope you choose to be a part of.
Follow me on Twitter (@treyhuffine) as well as @gitconnected to stay up to date and help us share your content to reach a larger audience.
How to submit an article
We do our best to respond as quickly as possible. However, we get many requests every day and also, unfortunately, a lot of spam. We carefully read each article submitted, so it can take up to 1 week to receive a decision.
- Email submit@gitconnected.com with a link to your story. Please share a draft link and wait to publish the story as this will help us maximize the results from the Medium ranking algorithm. It doesn’t need to be a lengthy email — just a sentence or two and a link to an article is all you need.
- Our team will add you as a writer.
- Follow these instructions to submit a story. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/213904978-Add-draft-or-post-to-publication
- We will review and lightly edit your story. If it meets our criteria, we will publish it.
- The gitconnected team will promote your story in relevant places, on social media, and to our community to help more people discover your article.
- Share your story on Twitter, Facebook, and other social outlets and be sure to tag @gitconnected so we can help you promote. The benefit of the gitconnected community is supporting and finding each other. However, we ask that you don’t do anything sketchy to promote your story as it will reflect poorly on yourself as well as gitconnected.
PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE LINKS TO THE MEDIUM MEMBERSHIP REFERRAL PROGRAM. This program has ended, and including a link in the article will diminish its quality and lower its chances of being distributed.
Benefits of submitting an article to gitconnected
Our team works very closely with our authors to help increase the number of views per article as well as provide proofreading and editing. Stories will typically see an increase of 5x to 10x or more for the number of views.
We allow you to promote your own blog or services in the article as long as you do so in a tasteful and transparent manner.
Here’s what all this means for you as a writer:
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Your stories are yours. We don’t lay any claim to them. You can cross-post them wherever you want. Other newspapers and websites may even approach you about syndicating them or translating them. That’s fine with us. We just ask that — since we invest a lot of time in editing and promoting your stories — you don’t remove them from our Medium publication once we’ve published them.
How we select articles
We try to ensure that the stories will be beneficial to our readers. We seek to only publish stories that follow a few simple rules:
- Well written
- About interesting topics
- Relevant to our audience of developers, designers, and data scientists.
If your article matches these criteria, we encourage you to send it to us.
What articles are successful on gitconnected
Our community loves anything related to software development, tech, data science, design, blockchain, and startups. Our readers and writers span all skill levels from beginner-advanced, so don’t hesitate to share what you’ve learned regardless of how long you have been coding. Popular topics in the past have covered the following:
- Tutorials using a specific technology or group of technologies
- A step-by-step guide on how to build something
- Your personal experience solving problems or building something
- Comparing technologies, libraries, frameworks, languages, etc.
- Industry trends in the past or upcoming
- Launching a new service or open source library
- Programming tips and tricks
- How to avoid common mistakes
- Following best practices
- A guide to being successful as a developer
- On-the-job learning experiences
- Pros and cons of certain libraries or languages
- Getting started with a certain language or library
- Cutting edge libraries or techniques
- Interview tips and career development
The above topics are only a small list of the many options people find interesting.
Our community is interested in many languages and libraries, but the following is a short list to get an idea of what has done well: web development, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, Redux, MobX, VueJS, Angular, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Golang, Elixir, PHP, Java, GraphQL, blockchain, Ethereum, Solidity, three.js, D3, Webpack, mobile apps, Kotlin, Swift, Expo, web performance, best practices, Gatsby, static sites, building complex web app, CSS, CSS-in-JS, open source software, startups, and tech.
The options are endless, so please don’t hesitate to write about your passion.
How to write a good article
There have been many articles written on how to write a good story. One of the top publications is freeCodeCamp, and we recommend using their editor's handbook as a guide. The article is very thorough and simply one of the best overviews of writing on Medium. Find the handbook here.
Follow the Level Up Coding publication on Medium and check out some of the useful links for our community:
- Coding interview course — I’ve put thousands of hours into building, researching, and perfecting this course. The revenue from it supports me and allows me to build you a ton of other awesome free tools
- Join gitconnected.com — There are a ton of free tools to help you build your career and also learn how to code.
- Follow @treyhuffine, @gitconnected, and @Skilled_dev
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