I'd like to tell you about a new membership you can take advantage of through DEV — and lock in today's Early-bird pricing for as long as you stay subscribed.

Whether for a hobby or to keep evolving in a competitive field, developers have to try different services for productivity, hosting, etc. However, it's becoming harder to find valuable free or introductory tiers. Whether it’s due to abuse mitigation from the service or general inflation pushing prices higher, it can be challenging to find good value.

DEV++ is a membership we have created to broker better free or introductory tiers than are otherwise available. We leverage DEV's trust and our own membership-based abuse mitigation structure to help offer better deals to a variety of products and services.

We are launching with an Early-bird price of $8/month and a few initial partner offers. We have some big and very useful partnerships in the pipeline, and if you sign up for Early-bird, you get to keep this price going forward.

As we continue to add value, we hope to make this a no-brainer offering. We think it’s already pretty valuable with this initial set of partners available so far.

Oh, and there is more.

I wanted to highlight the Deals part because that is going to be the cornerstone of the membership: objective value on services you need or can benefit from.

But we are also bundling it with some upgraded DEV features.

Better content recommendations via Pre-Compute

It's important that we not gate features we could offer widely just for the sake of doing it, but by charging a bit, we are able to devote more resources to computing your feed, email recommendations, etc.

DEV++ members will be allowed to describe what they are most interested in keeping up with across DEV, and we will tabulate that information and use it to better separate signal from noise in your DEV experience.

DEV Benefit-of-the-Doubt

As we continue our efforts to fight spam and elevate the best content, we will use DEV++ as a trust signal in the process. That means as an author, your content is less likely to get caught in the spam folder by our mods or automation.

Again, it is important that participation on the platform is fair and freely accessible to all, so this will have no impact on the full reach or popularity of posts. It is a small signal to help ensure your content is not flagged.

Abuse of the program of any kind will result in possible removal from the membership and/or general DEV suspension.

Early Access and More to Come

In general, any time we can give early access to a feature or program, DEV++ members will be the first beneficiaries. If you want to maximize your career success as a developer, I suggest you do the math on the value of the $8/month membership and consider joining today. We will continue adding value with the express goal of helping you improve your career outcomes and connections you can make along the way in our ecosystem.

Expect a few more posts in the next month or so as we add new deals, but I urge you to get in now to ensure you get this price for the duration of your membership.

Happy coding ❤️