Today we are launching DEV Sustaining Memberships. Backing us in this way will help support the growth of our kind, open, creative community of amazingly talented software developers.
As described in our 2018 outlook, this is a pay-what-you-can membership with tiered rewards. For as little as a dollar, you can become a sustaining member and unlock a few exclusive features. The tiers go up from there, and include more and more benefits — including exclusive stickers!
The membership landing page goes into detail on the rewards for each tier, so let me take a moment to elaborate on one very important benefit.
Workshops
Members paying $25 a month are going to have the opportunity to take part in regular online software development workshops. These workshops will be interactive ways of building your skills and keeping up with the important and constantly-evolving areas of our craft.
We will be announcing workshop details as they are finalized, but let me tell you about one we have lined up: My workshop on web performance. This is an area of our field I have devoted a lot of my career studying. I'm very excited to impart some of my learnings to members from the community in a format that does better justice to the subject than than blog posts and conference talks.
While talks and blog posts are an important part of the developer ecosystem, workshops have shaped some of the most critical experiences for me in growing as a developer. We have confirmed this to be the case for many others and the industry experts we expect to take part in teaching is really exciting. We intend to specialize in this medium in an online environment as much as we can.
If you are most interested in the workshop tier but are unable afford the $25/mo, we are offering scholarships. You can fill out an application here.
Thank you for being awesome
Sooo many dev.to members have been with us from the beginning, and I promise that we are doing everything we can to build out the platform to be ten times better than it currently is. A huge part of that is having a sustainable business model so that we can invest in improvements.
Pick the Sustaining Membership level that is right for you.
As per the 2018 outlook, we have a couple more initiatives to launch soon and we are well on track with all of them. Thank you so much for being a part of the community.
Top comments (42)
Such an amazing community, glad to be part of it! TAKE MY MONEY :)
Got so much to learn from dev.to community
Plus I ordered a ordered a shirt for myself
I hope you guys sell stickers too
Stickers are for sale now shop.dev.to/products/sticker-pack
The sticker pack, including the member badge sticker, come with one of the membership tiers as well. There will definitely be future sticker love showered upon members as well. We have many additional follow-ups for each membership benefit as we work it out.
I was looking for it on the dev shop couldn’t find it I will order them soon thanks for sharing the link
Do ship those internationally? Say, to Mexico City?
I got infinitely many compliments at BSidesLV and DefCon for my "Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow" sticker. You guys are the best.
<3 <3 <3 <3 !!!
You guys rock! This is one of my favorite sites; thank you for all you do!
TAKE MY MONEY
We got our first membership signup before this post was made. Probably when the link went live in the home page sidebar. That's a good sign 😊
I seriously cannot wait to keep building community and building features for y'all. Open source coming soon too, promise!
Never been happier to throw money at a community. I hope this ends up being as well-funded as it deserves to be. <3
Thanks everyone for your support -- we're so excited to launch workshops and bring more resources to the community! Please apply for a scholarship if you need one ❤️
I think you should change the membership levels to be powers of 2. 20, 23, 25, 210
Happy to contribute. Excited to see this thing grow in the future.
I've basically got zip this year, but you can have the dollar in my wallet.
^,^Much appreciated. You've been such an awesome part of the community, 2018 is going to be a great year.
That's great, keep it up Ben and team dev! ✌💯
Membership purchased. Keep up the great work!
Happy to support and become a (sustaining) member of this awesome community!
Yaaaaaas!!! Moar content!!!!