DEV & Lobsters monitoring
Developer blogs and link communities, covered
Tutorials on DEV and links shared on Lobsters reach exactly the developers you want. Mentionly tracks new articles and stories that mention you.
dev.toCompetitor
Self-hosting vs Northwind: what I learned after a year
lobste.rsLaunch
Northwind open-sources its sync engine
Example mentions for a fictional brand.
Why track DEV & Lobsters?
Tutorials signal adoption
A DEV article about your product is free distribution. Share it and thank the author.
Small but influential
Lobsters is small, but its readers decide what developers adopt.
What Mentionly tracks
- ✓DEV article titles, summaries and tags
- ✓Lobsters stories, descriptions and linked domains
Checked about every 30 minutes.
What you get for every mention
- ✓Relevance score (1–5) so off-topic matches stay out of the way
- ✓Buying-intent score and a lead list of people ready to buy
- ✓Sentiment and tags: churn risk, competitor, bug report, feedback…
- ✓An AI reply draft in your brand's voice
- ✓Alerts by email, Slack or webhook
Questions
Why both in one page?+
Both are smaller developer communities; Mentionly tracks them separately in your inbox.
DEV & Lobsters plus 10 more sources, in one inbox
Reddit, X, TikTok, Hacker News, GitHub, Bluesky, YouTube, forums, news and AI answers, scored and ready to act on.