--- title: Best Marketing posts — September 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Marketing posts from September 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/marketing/best-of/2025/09 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/marketing/best-of/2025/09 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Marketing posts — September 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Marketing posts from September 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Marketing — September 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/notifuse-modern-alternative-to-resend-mailchimp-mailjet-xsgrqeoby "Notifuse: modern alternative to Resend/Mailchimp/Mailjet") Article Daily Open Source Tools · 1y Notifuse: modern alternative to Resend/Mailchimp/Mailjet Notifuse is a new open-source email service that provides an alternative to established platforms like Resend, Mailchimp, and Brevo. It offers functionality for sending both newsletters and transactional emails through an API interface. 92 2 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/notifuse-modern-alternative-to-resend-mailchimp-2vkeymamd "Notifuse: modern alternative to Resend/Mailchimp") Article Open Source · 1y Notifuse: modern alternative to Resend/Mailchimp Notifuse is a free email service platform that enables sending newsletters and transactional emails, positioning itself as a modern alternative to established services like Resend and Mailchimp. 84 4 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/product-hunt-is-dead-sedimental-ep4lltmvv "Product Hunt is Dead — Sedimental") Article Hacker News · 51w Product Hunt is Dead — Sedimental Product Hunt has become a pay-to-play platform dominated by vote manipulation services, losing its original value as a genuine product discovery community. The author discovered this after launching FinFam and being bombarded with offers to buy votes for $100\. The platform's midnight Pacific reset time gives overseas vote sellers an advantage, while legitimate engagement has declined significantly. The piece argues that Product Hunt's focus on novelty over community building has led to its downfall, suggesting alternatives like Indie Hackers and AlternativeTo as better models. 68 5 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/software-developers-aren-t-buying-it-axql0xs2w "Software developers aren’t buying it") Article InfoWorld · 52w Software developers aren’t buying it Developers resist traditional marketing approaches and prefer straightforward, hands-on evaluation of tools. They value peer recommendations over advertising, want clear pricing without sales calls, and need easy access to documentation, free tiers, and sandbox environments. Successful developer tool marketing focuses on letting developers try products independently rather than using typical marketing tactics like webinars or sales pitches. 42 6 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/i-forced-myself-to-spend-a-week-in-instagram-instead-of-xcode-w10ztxcur "I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode") Article Hacker News · 51w I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode An iOS developer experiments with spending a full week focused on marketing and social media promotion instead of coding new features for their fitness app. The week involved creating Instagram content, cold messaging studios and trainers, and meeting with fitness industry influencers. 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