https://kindavishal.js.org/writing Write-ups on building developer community, DevRel and creator programs — how they were designed, how they were measured, and what went wrong. en Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/agentic-ai-day-mobilization https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/agentic-ai-day-mobilization Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Cloud's Agentic AI Day set the Guinness record for the most participants in an agentic AI hackathon. The community-side mobilization funnel that filled the room. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/dev-library-return-rate https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/dev-library-return-rate Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT I ran Google Dev Library as technical maintainer from 2023 to 2025. 358 developers earned their first byline on a Google property. Two in five came back. The publishing pipeline that made them return. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/educators-first-class-program https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/educators-first-class-program Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Educators were a subcategory when I started. Three years of representing them to global stakeholders landed them alongside engineering and startups. How a category becomes a category. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/safety-rollout-zero-incidents https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/safety-rollout-zero-incidents Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google policy changed. Every partner program in India had to comply without grinding to a halt. The tiered rollout, the runbook, and the cadence that made zero incidents the boring outcome. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/gemini-adoption-partner-network https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/gemini-adoption-partner-network Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The India Edu Program by Google for Developers drove 60K+ Gemini API developer adoptions. Not a launch campaign. A faculty-enablement pattern that multiplied one trained instructor into a cohort of adopters. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/ai-adoption-gap-operators https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/ai-adoption-gap-operators Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT 84% of people have never used AI. That is not a reason to wait — it is the reason the operators who build their own tools right now get a long head start. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/growth-amplifies-what-exists https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/growth-amplifies-what-exists Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Growth makes whatever is already there louder. My referrals went 4x on ten creators, not forty — and adding thirty more would have made it worse. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/two-metric-attribution-audit https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/two-metric-attribution-audit Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Before you build a schema, run this. Two numbers per source — how many showed interest, how many converted — and where your growth is stuck becomes obvious. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/community-career-ceiling https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/community-career-ceiling Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT A study that followed 86 people for 11 years found 28% of those who stayed reached Director or VP. Of those who left, 60% did. What that number really measures. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/share-of-model-creator-content https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/share-of-model-creator-content Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Share of voice means where you show up on a channel. Share of model means whether an AI names you when a developer asks. How I'd track the second one. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/why-devrel-gets-cut-first https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/why-devrel-gets-cut-first Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Two in five DevRel programmes have no formal budget, and a third are under pressure to show metrics they were never set up to produce. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/community-metrics-budget-review https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/community-metrics-budget-review Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Which DevRel and community metrics hold up when someone is deciding whether your programme continues — and what attribution still can't tell you. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/community-attribution-layer https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/community-attribution-layer Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT A DevRel attribution schema you can actually build: four tables, an Apps Script to Looker Studio pipeline, and no engineering time required. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/tubemonitor-vibe-coding https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/tubemonitor-vibe-coding Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The third-party tracker was under-counting our creators. So I specced and shipped a replacement in a week — and the spec, not the code, was the hard part. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/creator-streak-system https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/creator-streak-system Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Most streak mechanics take something away when you stop. This one pauses instead — four states, nothing lost, and a re-entry path that stays open. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/creator-payout-design https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/creator-payout-design Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Per-view and per-signup payouts both quietly ruin the content. The flat-fee and points structure I used instead, and how to define the content types. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/firecrawl-ambassador-tier-system https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/firecrawl-ambassador-tier-system Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT A developer ambassador program built from zero: why tier is one rolling number, not follower count, and how ten creators became a 4x lift in referrals. https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/apps-script-partner-automation https://kindavishal.js.org/writing/apps-script-partner-automation Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT Google Apps Script, Sheets and Looker Studio, built by the person who needed them. The rule that made it work: automate the handoffs, never the judgment.