If you are building full-stack serverless apps serverless functions, 3rd party APIs, GraphQL, and Fauna, we invite you to participate in the paid Write with Fauna program. We are also open and encourage video content as well.

Join in on the serverless community discussion, and grow your personal brand in the process. We pay our writers between $200-500 per article and promote content across our social channels–including a 75k+ audience on Twitter. Reoccuring writers are also eligble for free Fauna swag :)

Step-by-step tutorials using Fauna and various programming frameworks including Go, Java, Python, React, Angular, Vue, RedwoodjS, Svelte, Next.JS, and Gatsby

Articles that illustrate features of Fauna including temporality, streaming, and multi-tenancy

Larger architectural discussions or best practice tips for building full-stack, serverless apps

GraphQL data modeling strategies along with real-world application and examples

Compare and contrast stacks and various frameworks (pros and cons of each)

Data modeling strategies applied to real-world business applications

Tips on using Fauna from your own experience

*Please take a look at our backlog topic list for more ideas

Have an idea that you’d like to write about? Great! Here’s what to expect:

Submit your proposal topic to write@fauna.com along with an abstract and any relevant or recently published articles.

The Fauna editorial team will review your submission promptly, and if selected, you will be contacted and asked to provide a more detailed outline. You and the team will also discuss scheduling, placement, and reward amount at this time.

Sign a written contract with applicable reward amounts.

Write and send your article in a Google doc when you’re done.

The Fauna team and technical editors will provide reviews until the article is ready for publication on the agreed-upon outlet and date.

Once you’re post is published you will send an invoice to our team and get paid!

Note: These general guidelines for our process, but we understand you likely have more questions. Please review our FAQ below for additional details about publishing rights, reward amounts, formatting, and review cycles.

Interested, but still have questions before submitting a topic? Please see our FAQ below and reach out to write@fauna.com with any additional questions and we will get back to you!

While we don't have a formal writing and style guide, our editors mainly look at overall structure. Please include an intro about what you are building or will be writing about, followed by the body of your content, and don't forget about a conclusion section at the end where you can recap what you've covered and link out to any other helpful resources.

Due to new state law in California, we can unfortunately not contract with Californians through this program. This is the only current limit on who can participate in Write with Fauna.

Typically we find that once a contract is signed, it takes the writer between 2-3 weeks to complete a draft article. Once you submit your draft, our editors will provide feedback in 2-3 days.

While the exact amounts will vary, all articles will be paid between $200 and $500. More basic tutorials and app examples will receive a reward amount closer to $200 while more complex articles that describe production angles will be paid out on the higher end of the scale.

Article length will vary depending on multiple factors such as topic and complexity so we do not impose minimum or maximum word count. Instead, we encourage writers to focus on writing a complete article with examples and context that has a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Please include code samples whenever applicable.

We primarily publish articles to the Fauna blog, or externally publications such as Dev.to. Occasionally, we may use your article for a sponsorship piece in publications such as CSS Tricks and The New Stack. Regardless of where we publish your content, you will always know ahead of time when and where your article will live. In many cases, we will have you publish to any applicable medium or dev.to account. We will also send you a unique tracking parameter to add to any Fauna links so that we can track referral traffic accurately.

Once you submit your article, a technical editor will review for accuracy and overall content structure. After any technical revisions, the article will go through a final voice review within the Fauna marketing team. The last steps are publication and promotion.

Yes, you may publish to your personal blog once it’s been published to the agreed-upon outlet. Note: our team will ensure/remind you to add a canonical tag or reference where the article originally appeared at the top of your piece.

Have another question not addressed here? Reach out to us before submitting your topic proposal.