Write for Us

Become a writer for StackAcademy

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We’re always looking for talented authors that are willing to cover any and all topics that are of interest to front-end developers. So please, feel free to pitch your ideas at federico@openreplay.com.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for all types of stories about front-end development and Open Source, but with a focus on one of the following:

• How-tos. We love how-to’s, just make sure they’re not the ever-present “how to make a to-do app with X”, those have been covered to death. Send us something interesting and we’ll publish it.
• Opinion pieces. We have a place for them, if you have a strong opinion about the current front-end ecosystem, a particular framework, or something similar, send them over. Just make sure they provide value to the reader, we’re not looking for rants.
• Talk about something new and innovative. We’re also definitely interested in pieces that would attract tech leads, CTO’s and other decision-makers. So if you know of a cool new framework, a brand new programming language, or how if you know how to use framework X to improve the performance of your team, then send them over!
• Open Source. We love open-source, we think it’s one of the greatest things to ever happen to our industry and because of that, we like to talk about it. Send your open-source-related pitches to us, we’ll definitely take a look!

Styling guidelines

We’re OK with your styles as long as you follow Medium’s best practices, especially:

• Make sure you use proper headings for all sections.
• Add a title properly formatted.
• Add a subtitle.
• Different sections are separated by Medium’s separation lines.
• Your article is original. We do not accept already published work.
• Make sure you’ve checked for grammar errors. Pieces with grammatical errors will be rejected.
• We do not accept metered pieces. All content we publish is free for everyone.
• If you have code snippets, please embed Gists and avoid multi-line Medium code blocks without syntax highlighting.

Publication process

The typical publication process will go like this:

1. You’ll send me a draft link or an article idea.
2. I’ll review it and leave / provide feedback.
3. Once we’ve achieved consensus, we’ll create a header image for it and we’ll publish it.

Do we pay for articles?

Yes, we do, we pay a fixed amount for every published piece. This is why content needs to provide actual value to readers and have the required quality.

We normally expect pieces to be around 5- 8 minutes reading time. Shorter articles won’t be automatically rejected but we consider it harder to provide value in shorter pieces.

Do you have any more questions? Feel free to drop a comment here or send me an email and I’ll get back to you soon.