Medium “Software Development” tag statistics
How busy the Software Development tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 3 days
Busier than 82% of 73 tracked tags
31% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 268 stories a day, Software Development is busier than 82% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (22,727 followers per daily story) is higher than 38% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
50% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 31% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 49% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 7.1 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Software Development stories
| Publication | Followers | Software Development stories (last 3d) |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 62 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 668 | 60 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 43 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 36 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 26 |
| Tax Insights┃Vergi Analizleri | 10 | 13 |
| Daily Post of AI | 1 | 11 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 10 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 9 |
| The Tech Notes | 1.1K | 8 |
Top Software Development stories right now
- How Do You Build and Publish an App From ChatGPT With Floot?
- Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words (And I Can’t Believe It Worked)
- The Götterdämmerung of Software
- This 1931 Inequality Can Decide If Your Features Can Be Trusted: Wavelets in Physics and Finance
- Agentic AI Production Strategies and Performance Trade-offs
- What You have to Learn First as a Junior .NET Developer in 2026
- Advanced Asset Management in UiPath Orchestrator
- Build a Live Incident Room App with ToolJet MCP and Jev
- Writing Code These Days Can Become Quite Boring
- How to build a startup in 2026
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Software Development tag on Medium?
- About 268 per day (1,876 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 3-day window before our last scan. The tag has 344,933 stories in total.
- Is the Software Development tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 82% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 22,727 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Software Development?
- 31% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 50% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.