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DevRel is becoming a freelance job now? (India specific)

For the past 6 to 8 months, I've been observing that a lot more of the DevRel in India has started to become more of a freelancing gig. Companies pay someone to do a series of events. That person charges or gets the money, does the event, and gets a fraction of it, plus multiple more sponsors as well. Not saying that there is anything wrong, but whatever happened to building developer...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026) on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:35PM (#48448408)
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From my recent engagement on social media and in developer communities, these are the top things that I could come across: 1. On social media, people are mostly talking about getting approval for the App Store or the Play Store, rather than how they built their app, its structure, or the problems. 2. On social media, they are talking about promoting and marketing their app, whether it is a mobile app or a web app. I guess this thread is about a mobile app. 3. In developer communities, it does not matter anymore. You give them a problem, and they will come back with an application for it. For people who are early in their career, they are far from knowing even Git. There are keys publicly mentioned in their GitHub repository, and the code structure is nowhere to be present. On the other side, when I talk to tech teams through developer communities, for a lot of them who have adapted AI very well, they seem to be in heaven because they are working on multiple threads together. A lot of people have created a workspace where frontend and backend code is edited by agents that are hierarchically distributed across. I think shipping is getting faster and faster, and obviously the feedback loop has also multiplied, owing to more bugs to be fixed.

When I mention developer communities, I have my platform with more than 300,000 people signed up on it, so you can consider my experience to be valid

Do you think whitelabelled dev community platforms still make sense?

I've seen that with every new engagement comes a new whitelabelled platform, begins with probably an event (because whitelabelled dev community platforms are mostly focused on them), then reaches to hackathons, newsletters, blogs, chats, and the list goes on...While most of the companies are looking at white labelled solutions or an built-in-house tool to manage their communities, I see that it...

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