Topic
Which developer and AI newsletters take sponsorships?
Every newsletter here clears the developer topic gate and the listing bar. A Substack count is the one Substack itself publishes; a newsletter on its own domain shows the count printed on its own page, labelled self-reported.
29 creators are listed here: 25 on Substack and 4 by email on their own domain. 34 brands are named across their own sponsorship posts.
Audience figures from platform APIs. How we check the data Figures last read Sep 4, 2026.
Who are the largest developer newsletter creators?
Ranked on the measured figure each platform's own API returned, largest first. Nothing here is estimated.
- SemiAnalysis 315K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
- The System Design Newsletter 251K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
- Product Growth 240K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
- Deep Learning Weekly 224K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
- Latent.Space 198K free subscribers Substack, read Sep 4, 2026
Which brands sponsor developer newsletter creators?
Every brand below was named as a sponsor by one of these creators, in their own post. Open a brand to read the sentence it was read from.
- Unblocked 3 The System Design Newsletter, Engineering Leadership, AlgoMaster Newsletter
- AWS 2 The System Design Newsletter, Jam with AI
- Adobe 1 Ben's Bites
- Amplitude 1 Product Growth
- Ariso 1 Product Growth
- Arize 1 Product Growth
- Atono 1 Engineering Leadership
- Auth0 1 The System Design Newsletter
- Blitzy 1 The System Design Newsletter
- Bolt.new 1 Product Growth
- CircleCI 1 AI Agents Simplified
- CodeRabbit 1 The System Design Newsletter
- Customer.io 1 Product Growth
- EZ Texting 1 AI Agents Simplified
- Figma 1 The System Design Newsletter
- G2i 1 Engineering Leadership
- Gravitee 1 Ben's Bites
- Greybeam 1 SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter
- Honeycomb 1 Engineering Leadership
- HubSpot 1 AI Agents Simplified
- Hyperagent 1 Product Growth
- MarketBeat 1 AI Agents Simplified
- Matic 1 ByteByteGo Newsletter
- Name.com 1 Ben's Bites
- Novu Connect 1 AI Agents Simplified
- Omnigraph 1 The System Design Newsletter
- Option Pit 1 AI Agents Simplified
- Pendo 1 Product Growth
- Product Faculty 1 Product Growth
- SerpApi 1 Product Growth
- Sonar 1 Engineering Leadership
- Superblocks 1 The System Design Newsletter
- Svix 1 The System Design Newsletter
- Viktor 1 Product Growth
Every creator in this list
SemiAnalysis @semianalysis 5d ago 2 to check Infra / DevOps 315Kfree subscribers The System Design Newsletter @systemdesignone 4d ago 2 to check Infra / DevOps +6 Takes sponsors 251Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Product Growth @aakashgupta 4d ago 1 to check AI / LLM +7 Takes sponsors 240Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Deep Learning Weekly @deeplearningweekly 11d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 224Kfree subscribers Latent.Space @swyx US 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 198Kfree subscribers Engineering Leadership @gregorojstersek 4d ago 1 to check AI / LLM +2 Takes sponsors 196Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Ben's Bites @bensbites 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors 171Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors TheSequence @thesequence 4d ago 2 to check AI / LLM 169Kfree subscribers Linas's Newsletter @linas 3d ago 2 to check AI / LLM 156Kfree subscribers AlgoMaster Newsletter @algomaster 12d ago Backend Takes sponsors 152Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Import AI @importai US 6d ago AI / LLM 139Kfree subscribers Software Design: Tidy First? @tidyfirst 5d ago 1 to check 126Kfree subscribers Opinion AI @opinionai 3d ago 2 to check AI / LLM 124Kfree subscribers SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter @seattledataguy 11d ago Data / DB Takes sponsors 114Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors AI in Healthcare @aiinhealthcare 6d ago 1 to check Infra / DevOps 97Kfree subscribers Claude Code Masterclass @claudecodemasterclass 13d ago AI / LLM 79Kfree subscribers Technically @technically 5d ago 72Kfree subscribers Simon Willison’s Newsletter @simonw 6d ago AI / LLM 69Kfree subscribers FounderCoHo @foundercoho 4d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 67Kfree subscribers AI Agents Simplified @aiagentssimplified 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 
+3 Takes sponsors 57Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Jam with AI @jamwithai 3d ago AI / LLM Takes sponsors 56Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors A Life Engineered @alifeengineered 4d ago 43Kfree subscribers Data Engineering Weekly @dataengineeringweekly 6d ago 1 to check no figure yet ByteByteGo Newsletter @bytebytego 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors no figure yet Takes sponsors The Rundown AI @therundown 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors 1.7Mself-reported subscribers Takes sponsors Superhuman AI @superhuman 2d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors 1.5Mself-reported subscribers Takes sponsors TLDR AI @tldr-ai 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Likely open 1.1Mself-reported subscribers Likely open Pointer @pointer 6d ago 1 to check Takes sponsors 55Kself-reported subscribers Takes sponsors Resilient Cyber @resilientcyber 10d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 22Kfree subscribers
+3 Takes sponsors 57Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors Jam with AI @jamwithai 3d ago AI / LLM Takes sponsors 56Kfree subscribers Takes sponsors A Life Engineered @alifeengineered 4d ago 43Kfree subscribers Data Engineering Weekly @dataengineeringweekly 6d ago 1 to check no figure yet ByteByteGo Newsletter @bytebytego 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors no figure yet Takes sponsors The Rundown AI @therundown 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors 1.7Mself-reported subscribers Takes sponsors Superhuman AI @superhuman 2d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Takes sponsors 1.5Mself-reported subscribers Takes sponsors TLDR AI @tldr-ai 3d ago 1 to check AI / LLM Likely open 1.1Mself-reported subscribers Likely open Pointer @pointer 6d ago 1 to check Takes sponsors 55Kself-reported subscribers Takes sponsors Resilient Cyber @resilientcyber 10d ago 1 to check AI / LLM 22Kfree subscribers 
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