power-user-cultivation

Turn users into advocates and contributors — identifying, nurturing, and empowering your developer champions.

What It Does

Helps you identify your most engaged developers and create programs that turn them into advocates, content creators, and contributors. No forced evangelism — genuine value exchange for developers who love your product.

When to Use

Identifying potential advocates in your user base
Building a champion or ambassador program
Creating contributor experience for open source
Launching a referral program
Starting user-generated content initiatives
When you say "power users," "developer advocates," "champion program," or "UGC"

Quick Start

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Help me identify potential advocates from our user base and design
a champion program. We have about 5,000 active developers using our API.

The Power User Spectrum

Level	Behavior	Your Response
Active User	Uses product regularly	Keep shipping
Engaged User	Participates in community	Respond quickly
Advocate	Recommends unprompted	Early access, direct line
Champion	Creates content, helps others	Formal program
Contributor	Contributes code/docs	Contributor program

Key Principles

Don't push everyone up the spectrum — meet them where they are
No content quotas — advocates create because they want to
Credits > cash for referrals (less MLM feeling)
Recognition must be specific, public, and timely
Start small (5-10 champions) and grow

Files

File	Description
`SKILL.md`	Full skill instructions

Program Templates Included

Champion program structure
CONTRIBUTING.md for open source
Content bounty program
Referral program design
Recognition workflow

Identifying Advocates

Look for signals:

Top 10% by usage
Answers community questions
Created content about you
Files thoughtful bug reports
Positive social mentions

Tools

Octolens — Discover advocates through positive mentions, track content, identify power users
FirstPromoter — Referral management

developer-audience-context — What motivates your developers
developer-churn — Keep power users from leaving
developer-listening — Find candidates through monitoring
hackathon-sponsorship — Events where advocates shine

README.md