Having a strong DevRel strategy is an integral part of building a rich developer community. Moreover, executing that strategy involves several different components, each tailored to effectively engage and support your community of developers. Because of the complexity of each component, it can be difficult to solve all problems at once — especially given time and resource constraints on top of the need to to adequately measure the impact that each piece offers. This is where buidlbox comes in with our modular DevRel service.

DevRel, or “developer relations”, is the role or concept focused around the education and experience of a developer community. It’s part marketing, part community, and part product — all wrapped together with a very complex mission. Its complexity and breadth is part of the reason it can be so difficult to execute successfully in any ecosystem, let alone one that may be up and coming or those involving emerging technologies that are ever-evolving.

The graphic above shows just a few of the challenges ecosystems may face when building their community. On top of these challenges are other questions like how do you measure the impact that different solutions might offer, and how do you address the time and resource constraints that each of these present.

Here lies the reason why modularity is important. Each product, organization, or ecosystem has particular outcomes they are looking for, and a one-size-fits-all approach to DevRel simply doesn’t provide sustainable solutions.

Building an ecosystem is kind of like writing a choose-your-own-adventure novel. There are different ways to get to the end depending on your needs, wants, and overall goals: what works for one community may not work for another. Essentially, modular DevRel is how we build the adventure with you. It’s DevRel how you need it, when you need it.

How do we do it? And why does partnering with buidlbox differ from other platforms that may offer similar services?

Here’s why: Because when you partner with buidlbox, you are not just partnering with a platform but with an entire team dedicated to helping you reach your goals. And the how: through an ever-growing list of features and offerings. Each service is designed to provide a solution to any number of difficulties you may be facing.

Just to name a few…

You might be saying, “Of course a hackathon platform offers hackathons. But what else?” We get it, and we’ll get there! But let’s face it (and we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least mention it!): hackathons are an easy way to ideate, prototype, and market your product. It provides a low-barrier entry for builders to become familiar with your ecosystem. Think of hackathons as your starting point, the catalyst that prompts the question: “What problems are we solving for?” If you know your problem set, then hosting a hackathon is a no brainer… especially when done right.

With buidlbox, we enable you to host hackathons done right. We understand that community engagement is one of the most important and most difficult aspects of DevRel — that cultivating spaces and experiences for developers to interact, share knowledge, and get support are vital for an ecosystem to thrive. We make it easy to measure the impact of your hacks by providing metrics during a hackathon and analysis post-hack of your community and its growth. We see how difficult it is to manage multiple channels of communication effectively (especially during a hackathon!), so we work diligently and directly with you to ensure information reaches the right people at the right time.

Hackathons through buidlbox spur on developer loyalty through a turnkey solution that consolidates both comms and talent tentacles into a single platform… and it just happens to also allow for recognition, gamification, and a tight feedback loop (while being extraordinarily easy to use)! We offer long term partnerships so you can reach new buidlers while engaging and expanding your existing community.

There are few things more disappointing than a flopped campaign (according to your marketing lead). Truly great marketing drives engagement, adoption, and loyalty; without an organized and intentional approach, marketing efforts can become devoid of the humanity behind the product and may create a wall between the technology and the builders.

Here’s where we come in. When you partner with buidlbox, you have access to our entire marketing toolkit… and a team to help you execute it! From co-hosting workshops to targeted email outreach, we provide everything you need to achieve the engagement, adoption, and loyalty you are looking for.

Our marketing toolkit includes:

• Co-hosting of workshops and Spaces

• Email automation and targeted outreach

• Social media co-marketing and paid advertising

• Content creation including educational materials and design assets

• Discord moderation

• Metrics and analytics during and post campaign

Whether you have a strong, engaged ecosystem or one in its early stages, we can find ways to further your growth and development goals together.

Developer advocacy and product evangelism are two components within DevRel that create their own flywheel effects. The more you empower the voice of your builders, the more they believe in your product. However, both of these have challenges that make it difficult for organizations to master either.

What’s needed for strong developer advocacy and product evangelism?

Expertise and empathy

In order to build a bridge between the voice of a community and the voice of an organization, there must be a deep understanding of two things: 1) the technical sides of the product and 2) the diverse background, needs, and challenges of developers

Authenticity

Before your champions can be found, trust should be built around the value of your product. We have all seen shady sales tactics and grifts out there; people have a natural skepticism toward overtly promotional content. Products have to find a way to genuinely connect the value of their product with the values held by their builders.

Which leads to…

Demonstrating value 🤝

Once that value is known, it’s important to provide examples or use cases of real-world impact or potential. This also involves handling feedback along the way and acknowledging limitations — but when done well, it can lead to increased adoption and product visibility.

These are all reasons why we have crafted a stunning buidler profile experience, allowing buidlers to showcase all their achievements within one place: buidlbox! Between profiles and our soon to launch leaderboards, you can easily find your community’s champions. Whether you are wanting to see who is referring others to your hackathons or which buidler is consistently showcasing new projects — these features allow you to more easily facilitate a vibrant community by engaging with those power users. Using buidlbox, you get real-time feedback along with the opportunity to showcase product success stories to a community of 40k buidlers.

In order to successfully grow a community, builders need the appropriate resources to do what they do best! This is why we’ve introduced a number of features (and more to come!) that focus primarily on giving builders the tools they need to find success.

Knowledge hub 🧠

Meet our content explorer, a library of curated content to help buidlers level up — ranging from an ELI5 on zero-knowledge proofs to guides on how to write EVM-compatible smart contracts. Though this is one of our newer feature releases, it is quickly expanding, and we are excited to offer other resources over the next several weeks and months. If your product or protocol has resources you’d like to showcase, reach out to us at buidl@buidlbox.io and we’d love to add it to our collection (free of charge!).

Job boards 📝

One thing we love more than our buidlers (🫶) is having the opportunity to introduce them to you. For this reason, we’ve recently released our job explorer which allows buidlers to explore different roles available within the ecosystems of our partners. Through this feature, you have the ability to showcase your roles to nearly 40k users — one of whom may be your next Technical Lead, Head of Product, or Solidity Developer.

Recognizing and understanding the unique needs of an ecosystem is a vital part of the journey toward growth and adoption. Modular DevRel offers a tailored solution to the diverse challenges faced by these different communities, and it provides a comprehensive approach with services like hackathons, marketing plans, buidler profiles, and educational resources.

By partnering with buidlbox, you not only gain access to a versatile toolkit but also a dedicated team focused on fostering growth and engagement within your community. With modularity at its core, buidlbox empowers organizations to navigate the complexities of DevRel, ensuring sustainable and impactful outcomes for their ecosystem and their future.

Having a strong DevRel strategy is an integral part of building a rich developer community. Moreover, executing that strategy involves several different components, each tailored to effectively engage and support your community of developers. Because of the complexity of each component, it can be difficult to solve all problems at once — especially given time and resource constraints on top of the need to to adequately measure the impact that each piece offers. This is where buidlbox comes in with our modular DevRel service.

DevRel, or “developer relations”, is the role or concept focused around the education and experience of a developer community. It’s part marketing, part community, and part product — all wrapped together with a very complex mission. Its complexity and breadth is part of the reason it can be so difficult to execute successfully in any ecosystem, let alone one that may be up and coming or those involving emerging technologies that are ever-evolving.

The graphic above shows just a few of the challenges ecosystems may face when building their community. On top of these challenges are other questions like how do you measure the impact that different solutions might offer, and how do you address the time and resource constraints that each of these present.

Here lies the reason why modularity is important. Each product, organization, or ecosystem has particular outcomes they are looking for, and a one-size-fits-all approach to DevRel simply doesn’t provide sustainable solutions.

Building an ecosystem is kind of like writing a choose-your-own-adventure novel. There are different ways to get to the end depending on your needs, wants, and overall goals: what works for one community may not work for another. Essentially, modular DevRel is how we build the adventure with you. It’s DevRel how you need it, when you need it.

How do we do it? And why does partnering with buidlbox differ from other platforms that may offer similar services?

Here’s why: Because when you partner with buidlbox, you are not just partnering with a platform but with an entire team dedicated to helping you reach your goals. And the how: through an ever-growing list of features and offerings. Each service is designed to provide a solution to any number of difficulties you may be facing.

Just to name a few…

You might be saying, “Of course a hackathon platform offers hackathons. But what else?” We get it, and we’ll get there! But let’s face it (and we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least mention it!): hackathons are an easy way to ideate, prototype, and market your product. It provides a low-barrier entry for builders to become familiar with your ecosystem. Think of hackathons as your starting point, the catalyst that prompts the question: “What problems are we solving for?” If you know your problem set, then hosting a hackathon is a no brainer… especially when done right.

With buidlbox, we enable you to host hackathons done right. We understand that community engagement is one of the most important and most difficult aspects of DevRel — that cultivating spaces and experiences for developers to interact, share knowledge, and get support are vital for an ecosystem to thrive. We make it easy to measure the impact of your hacks by providing metrics during a hackathon and analysis post-hack of your community and its growth. We see how difficult it is to manage multiple channels of communication effectively (especially during a hackathon!), so we work diligently and directly with you to ensure information reaches the right people at the right time.

Hackathons through buidlbox spur on developer loyalty through a turnkey solution that consolidates both comms and talent tentacles into a single platform… and it just happens to also allow for recognition, gamification, and a tight feedback loop (while being extraordinarily easy to use)! We offer long term partnerships so you can reach new buidlers while engaging and expanding your existing community.

There are few things more disappointing than a flopped campaign (according to your marketing lead). Truly great marketing drives engagement, adoption, and loyalty; without an organized and intentional approach, marketing efforts can become devoid of the humanity behind the product and may create a wall between the technology and the builders.

Here’s where we come in. When you partner with buidlbox, you have access to our entire marketing toolkit… and a team to help you execute it! From co-hosting workshops to targeted email outreach, we provide everything you need to achieve the engagement, adoption, and loyalty you are looking for.

Our marketing toolkit includes:

• Co-hosting of workshops and Spaces

• Email automation and targeted outreach

• Social media co-marketing and paid advertising

• Content creation including educational materials and design assets

• Discord moderation

• Metrics and analytics during and post campaign

Whether you have a strong, engaged ecosystem or one in its early stages, we can find ways to further your growth and development goals together.

Developer advocacy and product evangelism are two components within DevRel that create their own flywheel effects. The more you empower the voice of your builders, the more they believe in your product. However, both of these have challenges that make it difficult for organizations to master either.

What’s needed for strong developer advocacy and product evangelism?

Expertise and empathy

In order to build a bridge between the voice of a community and the voice of an organization, there must be a deep understanding of two things: 1) the technical sides of the product and 2) the diverse background, needs, and challenges of developers

Authenticity

Before your champions can be found, trust should be built around the value of your product. We have all seen shady sales tactics and grifts out there; people have a natural skepticism toward overtly promotional content. Products have to find a way to genuinely connect the value of their product with the values held by their builders.

Which leads to…

Demonstrating value 🤝

Once that value is known, it’s important to provide examples or use cases of real-world impact or potential. This also involves handling feedback along the way and acknowledging limitations — but when done well, it can lead to increased adoption and product visibility.

These are all reasons why we have crafted a stunning buidler profile experience, allowing buidlers to showcase all their achievements within one place: buidlbox! Between profiles and our soon to launch leaderboards, you can easily find your community’s champions. Whether you are wanting to see who is referring others to your hackathons or which buidler is consistently showcasing new projects — these features allow you to more easily facilitate a vibrant community by engaging with those power users. Using buidlbox, you get real-time feedback along with the opportunity to showcase product success stories to a community of 40k buidlers.

In order to successfully grow a community, builders need the appropriate resources to do what they do best! This is why we’ve introduced a number of features (and more to come!) that focus primarily on giving builders the tools they need to find success.

Knowledge hub 🧠

Meet our content explorer, a library of curated content to help buidlers level up — ranging from an ELI5 on zero-knowledge proofs to guides on how to write EVM-compatible smart contracts. Though this is one of our newer feature releases, it is quickly expanding, and we are excited to offer other resources over the next several weeks and months. If your product or protocol has resources you’d like to showcase, reach out to us at buidl@buidlbox.io and we’d love to add it to our collection (free of charge!).

Job boards 📝

One thing we love more than our buidlers (🫶) is having the opportunity to introduce them to you. For this reason, we’ve recently released our job explorer which allows buidlers to explore different roles available within the ecosystems of our partners. Through this feature, you have the ability to showcase your roles to nearly 40k users — one of whom may be your next Technical Lead, Head of Product, or Solidity Developer.

Recognizing and understanding the unique needs of an ecosystem is a vital part of the journey toward growth and adoption. Modular DevRel offers a tailored solution to the diverse challenges faced by these different communities, and it provides a comprehensive approach with services like hackathons, marketing plans, buidler profiles, and educational resources.

By partnering with buidlbox, you not only gain access to a versatile toolkit but also a dedicated team focused on fostering growth and engagement within your community. With modularity at its core, buidlbox empowers organizations to navigate the complexities of DevRel, ensuring sustainable and impactful outcomes for their ecosystem and their future.