Experience first. Sources named where they matter.

Shane O'Connor

The project is based on his experience as an enterprise and founding account executive, and on advising early-stage developer-tool and AI founders. LinkedIn profile.

Adam Frankl

Credited for the strategy and philosophy frameworks drawn from The Developer-Facing Startup.

Jakub Czakon

Credited for tactical developer-marketing execution frameworks published at markepear.dev.

Founders, operators, and contributors

Pressure-tested by founders who used the skills on live products as design partners:

• Lubos, founder of hey/api
• Thibault and Max, cofounders of OpenStatus
• Kevin Collins, founder of Echofold, whose feedback led to research-the-market

Contributors to the repository:

• Flo Merian: the Product Hunt launch framework in launch-it, adapted from awesome-product-hunt
• Jonathan Reimer: the growth-loops skill, adapted from Growing Developer Tools: A Handbook

Everyone who has contributed is listed on the GitHub contributors page.

License

Copyright 2026 Shane O'Connor / QC Growth. Released under the MIT License.