Agent skill · marketing growth · sickn33
developer-listening
Monitor what developers say about your brand, competitors, and the problems they're solving. Track mentions and conversations across GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Twitter, and Discord.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific strategies and keyword structures for monitoring developer conversations across multiple platforms, which the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires discord, github, reddit, stack-overflow, twitter account access. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Developer Listening When to Use Use this skill when you need monitor what developers say about your brand, competitors, and the problems they're solving. Track mentions and conversations across GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Twitter, and Discord. Trigger phrases: "developer listening", "monitor developer conversations", "track... Monitor developer conversations across platforms to understand sentiment, find engagement opportunities, and gather competitive intelligence. Overview Developer listening is the practice of systematically monitoring what developers say about your brand, competitors, and the problems your product solves. Unlike traditional social listening, developer listening requires monitoring technical platforms where developers actually spend time: GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit programming communities, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, and Discord servers. Effective developer listening helps you: Understand how developers perceive your product Find frustrated users who need help (and might churn) Discover engagement opportunities before competitors Gather unfiltered product feedback Track competitive positioning in real conversations Identify content gaps and documentation issues Setting Up Your Monitoring Strategy 1. Define Your Keyword Categories Before setting up monitoring, organize keywords into categories: Brand Keywords: Your product name and common misspellings Your company name Key team members' names (for attribution) Your GitHub org/repos Your Twitter handles Competitor Keywords: Direct competitor names Competitor product features Competitor pricing/plan names Problem Keywords: Pain points your product solves Error messages you help with Workflow descriptions ("deploy to kubernetes", "manage API keys") "How do I..." phrases relevant to your space Buy Intent Keywords: "[category] recommendation" "best [tool type] for [use case]" "looking for [solution]" "alternative to [competitor]" "[competitor] vs" 2. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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