Paid Community Writer Programs
In this list we will cover a curated collection of active publishers, publications, and agencies that pay fair rates for high-quality technical content. This indents to be a detailed list and encourages people to contribute to it and share their experience.
- If you have a program that you would like to add, please read the contribution guidelines and submit a pull request.
- If you have any previous experience with any of these programs, please let us know in the discussions.
- If you manged to start writing for any of these programs, please let us know in the discussions and don't hesitate to update/add more details in the program's README files.
Adeva
- Payment for first-time authors: $200
- Topics: Infrastructure, SWE, soft skills, and more
- About: Our primary audience is technical people, including developers, designers, project managers, C-level executives, technology enthusiasts, and startup owners.
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Ambassador
- Payment for first-time authors: $300
- Topics: K8s, open source
- About: We’re looking for developers with demonstrated experience in the topics we publish. You must have written before and are comfortable with receiving feedback on your writing.
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Civo
- Payment for first-time authors:: $300 – $500
- Topics: Infrastructure, K8s.
- Notes: Should be related to the Civo tool.
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Cohesive
- Payment for first-time authors: $200 – $500
- Topics: Infrastructure, K8s.
- Notes: Should be related to the Cohesive tool.
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DeepSource
- Payment for first-time authors: $150
- Topics: DevOps.
- About: DeepSource is looking for technical writers who can write content in the form of blogposts and articles on topics related to the following topics: code quality, code review, static analysis, etc.
Dev-Spotlight
- Payment for first-time authors: $600 for first-time authors
- Topics: DevOps, Infrastructure, and Fullstack web development.
- About: This is freelance work that you can do on the side, when your schedule allows. You'll choose the topics you find interesting and you can set your own rate. Also, you'll get to build your portfolio and give back to the community. You must have at least one published technical article or blog for reference. We are most interested in insightful topics, clear communication and a good response from the community.
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Digital-Ocean
- Payment for first-time authors: $300 - $400
- Topics: Open source, Infrastructure.
- About: The Write for DOnations program brings together two initiatives: building content to help developers and supporting tech-focused charities and nonprofits.
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Educative
- Payment based on the course evaluation.
- Topics: Cybersecurity, cloud computing, cloud cert, APIs, front end, and back end, as well as others.
- About: Text-based interactive courses for software developers.
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Fauna
- Payment for first-time authors: $350
- Topics: Open source, Infrastructure.
- About: The “Write with Fauna” program aims to develop educational content for the client-serverless stack with a focus on driving material that dives deeper into this methodology, its ecosystem, the best practices, and tutorials, especially as they pertain to using Fauna.
- Notes: Must use FaunaDB.
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Hashnode
- Payment for first-time authors: $150 - $350
- Topics: NFTs, dApps, DeFi, Blockchain, Crypto, Metaverse, Solidity tutorials, Launching Web3 projects, Web3-related tutorials, Web3 security, DAOs.
- About: Opening the Hashnode Web3 Blog To Everyone - Contribute to the Web3 Blog
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Linode
- Payment for first-time authors: $300
- Topics: DevOps Tools, Server Infrastructure, Storage, Programming Languages, and Linux.
- About: Known to pay much higher rates to trusted repeat authors. Further opportunities for paid updates to existing tutorials.
- Related to the Linode tool.
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LogRocket
- Payment for first-time authors: $350
- Topics: React, Redux, Node.js, Wasm, GraphQL, Rust, Flutter, Frontend development best practices and Product/UI/UX design.
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Okteto
- Payment for first-time authors: $200
- Topics: K8s, Okteto.
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Paperspace
- Payment for first-time authors: $200 - $300
- Topics: machine learning, data science, 3-D modeling, and more.
- About: We're constantly developing our blog as a valuable community resource on all things related to machine learning, deep learning, 3-D modeling, gaming, and more. We're always looking for driven people who want to make an impact in this space.
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SigNoz
- Payment for first-time authors: $150
- Topics: DevOps.
- About: We are an open-source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool and we’re early into our journey (launched 2021). We are building with our community, and now we want to create content with the community.
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Sitepoint
- Payment for first-time authors: $150 - $300
- Topics: Web dev, more.
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Vultr
- Payment for first-time authors: $150 - $300 for first-time authors
- Topics: Vultr, infrastructure.
- About: If you are a technical writer looking for paid assignments, you've come to the right place; Vultr wants your articles!
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