Best Medium publications for Software Engineering writers
65 publications that publish Software Engineering stories. Publications marked open to new writers regularly publish people with fewer than 100 followers — the best place to submit your first stories.
Updated Oct 20, 2026
65
publications
17
open to new writers
367K
largest audience (Level Up Coding)
242
Software Engineering stories per day
Where new Software Engineering writers get published
| # | Publication | Followers | Stories (14d) | Median claps | By small writers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Level Up Coding open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 134 | 96 | 31% | |
| 2 | JavaScript in Plain English open to new writers | 148 | 1 | 53% | |
| 3 | Python in Plain English open to new writers | 104 | 69 | 33% | |
| 4 | CodeX open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 16 | 37 | 31% | |
| 5 | Career Paths open to new writers | 10 | 100 | 80% | |
| 6 | Towards Data Engineering open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 11 | 72 | 36% | |
| 7 | Women in Technology open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 14 | 28 | 86% | |
| 8 | Design Systems Collective open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 8 | 64 | 63% | |
| 9 | Analyst’s corner open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 10 | 31 | 40% | |
| 10 | MeetCyber open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 25 | 1 | 56% | |
| 11 | The Tech Notes open to new writers | 8 | 210 | 63% | |
| 12 | Tech and AI Guild open to new writers | 9 | 0 | 67% | |
| 13 | AI Advances Briefs open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 16 | 156 | 44% | |
| 14 | CUBIG Tech Blog open to new writers | 3 | 191 | 100% | |
| 15 | Insight Avenue open to new writers | 3 | 0 | 100% | |
| 16 | Models to Systems open to new writers | 41 | 0 | 100% | |
| 17 | Future, Actually open to new writers | 3 | 10 | 100% |
All Software Engineering publications
| # | Publication | Followers | Stories (14d) | Median claps | By small writers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Level Up Coding open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 134 | 96 | 31% | |
| 2 | JavaScript in Plain English open to new writers | 148 | 1 | 53% | |
| 3 | Python in Plain English open to new writers | 104 | 69 | 33% | |
| 4 | CodeX open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 16 | 37 | 31% | |
| 5 | Career Paths open to new writers | 10 | 100 | 80% | |
| 6 | Towards Data Engineering open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 11 | 72 | 36% | |
| 7 | Women in Technology open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 14 | 28 | 86% | |
| 8 | Design Systems Collective open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 8 | 64 | 63% | |
| 9 | Analyst’s corner open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 10 | 31 | 40% | |
| 10 | MeetCyber open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 25 | 1 | 56% | |
| 11 | The Tech Notes open to new writers | 8 | 210 | 63% | |
| 12 | Tech and AI Guild open to new writers | 9 | 0 | 67% | |
| 13 | AI Advances Briefs open to new writers guidelines ↗ | 16 | 156 | 44% | |
| 14 | CUBIG Tech Blog open to new writers | 3 | 191 | 100% | |
| 15 | Insight Avenue open to new writers | 3 | 0 | 100% | |
| 16 | Models to Systems open to new writers | 41 | 0 | 100% | |
| 17 | Future, Actually open to new writers | 3 | 10 | 100% | |
| 18 | 6 | 105 | 17% | ||
| 19 | AWS in Plain English | 2 | 0 | 50% | |
| 20 | Data Engineer Things guidelines ↗ | 2 | 150 | 0% | |
| 21 | 5 | 86 | 0% | ||
| 22 | 7 | 76 | 0% | ||
| 23 | 4 | 0 | 50% | ||
| 24 | 17 | 7 | 0% | ||
| 25 | 8 | 35 | 13% | ||
| 26 | 4 | 50 | 25% | ||
| 27 | 5 | 58 | 20% | ||
| 28 | 3 | 120 | 33% | ||
| 29 | 3 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 30 | 9 | 38 | 11% | ||
| 31 | 18 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 32 | 100 | 8 | 0% | ||
| 33 | 7 | 7 | 0% | ||
| 34 | 11 | 143 | 0% | ||
| 35 | 90 | 0 | 7% | ||
| 36 | The Thinking Engineer | 2 | 317 | 0% | |
| 37 | 4 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 38 | 7 | 95 | 0% | ||
| 39 | 3 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 40 | 3 | 3 | 67% | ||
| 41 | The Code Frontier | 2 | 35 | 100% | |
| 42 | ThreadSafe guidelines ↗ | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 43 | 8 | 6 | 0% | ||
| 44 | Cloud Wizards | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 45 | 3 | 186 | 0% | ||
| 46 | 9 | 107 | 22% | ||
| 47 | All About Computers guidelines ↗ | 2 | 0 | 50% | |
| 48 | 17 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 49 | 3 | 0 | 33% | ||
| 50 | Backend Engineers Club guidelines ↗ | 3 | 135 | 0% | |
| 51 | The Grand Game of Software Engineering | 2 | 7 | 0% | |
| 52 | Tailed Tech | 2 | 52 | 0% | |
| 53 | Code Your Own Path guidelines ↗ | 3 | 0 | 0% | |
| 54 | Andersen IT Community | 2 | 0 | 100% | |
| 55 | Fonzi AI | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 56 | Cross Commit | 5 | 0 | 40% | |
| 57 | Production Ready | 5 | 2 | 0% | |
| 58 | Diary of a Software Developer | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 59 | TechFlows | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 60 | MobileByteSensei | 32 | 0 | 0% | |
| 61 | Tax Insights┃Vergi Analizleri | 13 | 0 | 0% | |
| 62 | System Design & Architecture Deep Dives | 2 | 0 | 0% | |
| 63 | Core and Bloat | 2 | 9 | 0% | |
| 64 | A Word That Awakens You | 2 | 0 | 100% | |
| 65 | The AI Planet | 2 | 0 | 100% |
How to choose a publication
Bigger is not always better. A publication with 367K followers can bury your story among dozens of daily posts, while a smaller, active publication that features new writers often brings more reads per story. Look at three numbers above: followers (potential reach), median claps (how much readers actually engage) and the share of small writers (your chances of being accepted).
For context, Software Engineering sees about 242 new stories a day and 53% of them get no claps at all. Getting into a publication is one of the few reliable ways out of that pile. See the full Software Engineering tag statistics.