Freelance Technical Content Writer
What you need
- 1+ yrs experience
- One best sample + why it's good
- Unique articles containing original discoveries
- Clearly explain technical ideas to developers
- Written for DevTools companies before
What you'll do
- Interview founders and engineers
- Try products and run experiments
- Write technical articles for developers
- Cover AI agents, infrastructure, deployments, browser use
- Find overlooked details and original discoveries
Manicule (YC P26) is hiring freelance technical writers to write for developer-tool companies.
Remote, worldwide. Up to $400 per article, depending on your skill, experience, and the scope of the piece. We agree on the fee, deliverables, and included revisions before you start.
You’ll interview founders and engineers, try products, and write technical articles for developers. Topics include AI agents, infrastructure, deployments, browser use, etc.
What I care about:
- You put effort into making each article unique. You build something, run an experiment, find an overlooked detail, or ask a question nobody else has answered. The article should contain something you discovered.
- You don’t write AI slop. I’m allergic to it. Your writing should sound like someone who understands the subject and has something useful to say. Cut the generic intros, filler, and unchecked claims.
- You’ve written for DevTools companies before. This is a huge plus. I’d love to read work that shows you understand developers and can explain technical ideas clearly.
An engineering background helps.
To apply: Please email writers [at] manicule.dev with your one best sample + why it's good.
Next steps: We'll be shortlisting the top 5% of applicants for a short paid outline trial, and then furthermore for a full paid article.
Interview Process
We'll be shortlisting the top 5% of applicants for a short paid outline trial, and then furthermore for a full paid article.
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About Manicule
Manicule is an AI-native technical documentation agency. We own technical documentation end-to-end for developer tool companies, including information architecture, messaging, writing, design, and QA. Agents handle the mechanical parts like code verification and auditing at a scale and speed no human team can match, while humans refine the thinking and make the docs actually good. We're at $15K MRR and profitable, with clients like Supermemory, Greptile, Reducto, and Rootly. Supermemory's docs drove a 30% improvement in answer success rate and went viral on Twitter, all shipped in 23 days. Every dev tool founder knows their docs are broken but simply don't have the time to fix them. The old solution was hiring a full-time technical writer who understands engineering, marketing, and devrel. That role is really hard and expensive to hire for, so docs stay broken. Naman started freelance writing for developer tools 3 years ago and realized that you can't one-shot docs. They require tight feedback loops with the engineering team, multiple review cycles, and real product understanding. When he worked with Supermemory, they had two products that sounded identical to customers. He got on calls with the CEO, figured out the right positioning for each product, and restructured the entire docs around it. That kind of work requires judgment and context that agents simply don’t have. On the other hand, testing every code snippet against a live API, auditing hundreds of pages for broken links, and drafting from OpenAPI specs is grunt work that agents do in minutes. The insight behind Manicule is that good documentation requires both, and nobody has packaged them together. Shreyans was a founding engineer at Supermemory, saw the impact of good docs firsthand, and joined Naman to productize Manicule. We're now a team of 5, building toward that vision. Thousands of AI startups are launching dev tools every month, and docs are the single biggest asset they're all neglecting.
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