About the role

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.

About the interview

We'll be shortlisting the top 5% of applicants for a short paid outline trial, and then furthermore for a full paid article.

About Manicule

Manicule is trying to solve a problem most people have given up on: getting AI to write well.

Everyone can get a model to produce words, but it feels so empty. Almost no one can get it to produce writing with a point of view, a logically sound structure, and a unique tone.

We want to solve these problems at scale. That means turning the judgment of strong writers into something repeatable that an AI can actually run on. Part of the work is engineering: prompts, evals, the harness around them. Part of it is editorial taste. Most of the work is experimentation, because nobody has the answers yet, and the frontier moves every few weeks.

We also think the audience for writing is changing. More and more, what we produce is read by agents as much as by people, and we're already working on catering to them.

We're small, we hire rarely, and people stay. If the idea of teaching a machine to write the way you'd want to read excites you more than it worries you, we should talk.