dev-to-hashnode

A developer-audience planning guide for recording who your target developers are, what they need, and where they spend time. It creates a shared audience document that other developer-marketing work can use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a codebase, documentation, landing pages, dependencies, issues, and blog posts, then draft or update a profile of the developers you want to reach.
Why use it?
It prevents each marketing activity from making different assumptions about the audience. It also provides a starting point when you do not yet have clear developer personas.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/dev-to-hashnode
Any agent
npx skills add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills --skill dev-to-hashnode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,608 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00059 $0.02608
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01304
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00261

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6944ae82bad7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-to-hashnode scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/dev-to-hashnode/SKILL.md · 385 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 385 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev.to & Hashnode Publishing

Developer blogging platforms offer built-in audiences of hundreds of thousands of developers. This skill covers cross-posting strategy, platform-specific optimization, and building followers on Dev.to and Hashnode.


Before You Start

  1. Read .agents/developer-audience-context.md if it exists
  2. Decide your canonical URL strategy (important for SEO)
  3. Create accounts on both platforms to reserve your username
  4. Understand: These platforms reward consistency and engagement

Platform Comparison

Dev.to vs Hashnode

Feature Dev.to Hashnode
Monthly visitors ~10M+ ~3M+
Custom domain No (subdomain only) Yes (free)
Canonical URL support Yes Yes
SEO benefits High domain authority Your domain gets SEO
Monetization No native Sponsors, newsletter
Newsletter No Built-in
Series support Yes Yes
Code highlighting Excellent Excellent
Community features Strong (reactions, comments) Growing
Audience Broader, more beginners More senior, focused

When to Use Each

Use Dev.to when Use Hashnode when
Maximum reach is priority Building your own brand
Targeting beginners/mid-level Want custom domain SEO
Community engagement matters Building email list
Quick validation of content Long-term content strategy
Don't have your own blog Supplementing your main blog

Cross-Posting Strategy

The Canonical URL Decision

Strategy Pros Cons
Original on your blog SEO to your domain, full control Platforms may rank lower
Original on Dev.to Maximum initial reach No SEO to your domain
Original on Hashnode (custom domain) SEO + platform reach Smaller initial audience

Best Practice: Your Blog + Cross-Post

  1. Publish on your blog first — This is canonical
  2. Wait 1-2 days — Let Google index your original
  3. Cross-post to Dev.to — Set canonical URL to your blog
  4. Cross-post to Hashnode — Set canonical URL to your blog

Read the full file on GitHub · 385 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 385 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 6944ae82bad7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-to-hashnode is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathimer/devmarketing-skills (85 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,608 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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