Scale Your Developer Relations

Hackathons

We are the global leader in organizing hackathons, capable of producing and managing your white-label hackathon anywhere in the world.

Over 48 hours, participants collaborate to build innovative projects around your theme or technology. Our hackathon events are fully tailored and white-labeled to align with your brand; we handle the entire production so you can focus on connecting with participants.

• Entire logistical production, including the venue, food and drinks, technical setup, and IT providers, handled by our logistics staff
• On-site entertainment and participant management handled by our MCs
• Deliverables include event timing, show flow, judging process management, and mentor management
• 1 BeMyApp senior project manager committed to the success of your event

Online Competitions

Using our own platform built specifically for digital hackathons, this format lets your company inspire developers to create new apps worldwide.

Online sessions, focused webinars, and 1:1 virtual coaching sessions make the experience unique for developers. Our project managers keep track of registered participants and make sure they meet deadlines and deliver their projects by the end of the competition.

• Platform setup, design, and online support fully managed by our staff
• Developer recruitment via BeMyApp’s internal database, 1:1 outreach, and partner communities
• 1 BeMyApp senior project manager

Incubators

We launched an incubation program and methodology to foster the development of projects from prototype to final product.

This is a natural next step after a hackathon or online competition, and part of a broader corporate innovation program.

Our 8-week program is created and run by a team of startup experts with 5+ years of experience in the field. We set up an online platform and manage the progress of incubated teams daily, and recruit external mentors to provide 1:1 coaching on the technical, design, and strategic needs of participants.

• Incubation virtual platform setup, design, and online support
• Daily or weekly follow-up and deadline management
• Setup of coding sprints, workshops, and webinars tailored to participating teams
• Space available, if necessary, in Paris or San Francisco

Meetups

Dedicated meetups are a great way to engage with developers and introduce them to your solutions. They’re easy to scale and can be produced on a regular basis.

Meetups are a great blend of evangelism, networking, and training; this format lets your technical evangelists really connect with a specific community of developers and gather direct feedback on your technologies.

• 1-hour technical presentation led by your evangelist, followed by Q&A
• Time reserved for attendees to network and share feedback
• Fun on-site activities, including Twitter challenges, drone races, and more

DevLabs

We organize hands-on DevLabs for tech clients who want to meet developers face-to-face and provide them with training.

This format helps you create connections with developers, and gets developers using your technology for their own projects. Hands-on sessions let your evangelists highlight the positive aspects of your product in detail and provide live support to developers trying it for the first time. We often recommend an invite-only approach and a highly targeted outreach campaign for these events.

• Morning session dedicated to technical presentations
• Afternoon session dedicated to hands-on workshops
• Your experts available on-site to evangelize and get feedback
• Fun on-site activities included: Twitter challenge, drone races, etc.

Webinars & Online Conferences

We developed our own technology to host top-quality webinars and maximize interaction between speakers and participants.

Webinars have become the most scalable way to provide continuous, global training to developers without exhausting your internal technical resources. To lead in this space, we launched With The Best, our online conference platform and interactive learning experience — each edition is dedicated to a specific theme (AI, IoT, Node.js, iOS, etc.) and gives developers a real opportunity to improve their skills while sponsors engage new users. Visit With The Best.

• 1 hour per webinar, led by your evangelist
• Live Q&A session at the end
• Webinars recorded and uploaded to YouTube / your developer portal
• Full setup and technical support handled by our technical team

Media Buying

Digital marketing is a scalable way to evangelize developers through complementary, impactful campaigns.

Our ad network spans 40 leading websites dedicated to coding and software development. With expertise built through developer events and digital campaigns since 2010, we set up formats that have a real impact on developers and can target a specific niche of developers based on your technology’s characteristics.

• Full media plan creation, management, and delivery by our outreach team
• Includes direct email marketing, newsletter sponsorship, content syndication, and display ads
• Full report post-operation
• 2 to 4 week delivery

Studies

We conduct studies for our clients to get them feedback on how to improve their developer kits, documentation, or developer platform, with developer-friendly UI and UX, simplicity, and more.

Our studies are based entirely on the reviews of developer focus groups that we interview. We don’t claim to know how to best organize your API documentation or what makes a good developer portal; we rely on a vast network of developer experts who can provide do’s and don’ts when it comes to offering solutions to external developers. Working with us means you can tap into our network.

• 1 BeMyApp project manager
• Selection and recruitment of relevant developers fitting your dev persona
• Management of the review and feedback delivery process
• Feedback analysis, study design and creation, including execution plan
• Market and competitor comparative analysis and recommendations

Tutorials

We focus on key features of your technology to provide useful written or video tutorials created by developers, for developers.

Our developer writers follow the key elements that make a good tutorial: a developer-friendly approach and tone, a clear learning curve, and specific examples that are easy to reproduce. Our video tutorials are based on the microlearning approach: a series of short videos that each focus on a specific aspect of your technology.

• 1 BeMyApp project manager
• Sourcing of the writer(s) based on the expertise and skills required (for written tutorials)
• Full video filming and editing by our technical team (for video tutorials)

Documentation

Using the same methodology as for written tutorials, we can manage the creation of your documentation or your API docs.

Having consistent and developer-friendly documentation is essential if you want to be certain that developers don’t quit your product when they run into difficulties using it.

• 1 BeMyApp project manager
• Selection of the writer based on the expertise and skills required
• Delivery of a first draft for internal approval