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Developer marketing · 4 August 2026
ChatGPT Ads for Developer Marketing in 2026: Are They Worth It?
ChatGPT ads are cheap to buy and expensive to use on developers: paid tiers see no ads at all, contextual targeting can't see what someone is running, and the effective cost per developer click is far above the bid. Here's the breakdown.
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Freemium economics · 22 July 2026
What Free Users Actually Cost AI Dev Tools
Free tiers for AI dev tools are breaking under inference costs. Here's the actual unit-economics model (cost per free user, what each mitigation lever is worth, and how to decide), with worked numbers.
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Open source funding · 20 July 2026
Funding Your Open Source Project When You Have Users but No Sponsors
Your tool has thousands of daily users and earns nothing. That's not a fundraising failure: it's a structural gap in how open source gets funded. Here's why it happens and what actually works.
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