A Hackmamba alternative for devtool companies

Literally.dev vs Hackmamba

Q: Is Hackmamba an AEO agency?

No. Hackmamba is a developer marketing agency, and GEO/AEO content is one line under its "agentic marketing" offer, next to docs, community, events, and paid media. It claims 67% of its content ranks in AI overviews and LLMs but does not publish how that is measured. Literally.dev is an AEO specialist: we baseline, measure, and re-measure every engagement on our own pipeline.

Q: Does Literally.dev do documentation too?

Yes. Technical documentation is one of our three services, written by the same hand-vetted engineers. What we do not do is events, community programs, or paid media. If you need those, Hackmamba offers them.

Q: Who writes the content?

Hackmamba assigns a dedicated technical writer with engineering experience and draws on a creator community of 1,500+ members. Literally.dev matches each piece to a hand-vetted engineer from the top 2.7% of our experts, then edits in-house.

Q: Should we build an in-house AEO team or hire an agency?

An in-house hire gives you one generalist. An agency gives you a team, the tooling, and the publication network on day one. The people best qualified to write technical content are engineers, and most of them would rather build product. We bring the engineers, measure where AI ranks you, and place the content where AI assistants read. You keep your team on the product.

Q: Self-serve AEO tools or a full-service agency?

A self-serve tool shows you where you stand. It does not write the content, get it published, or get it cited. We run our own measurement pipeline and pair it with engineer-written content and distribution, then re-measure at day 85 so you see what moved. If you already have writers and distribution, a tool may be enough. If you need the work done, you need the agency.

If you want events and community from one vendor, Hackmamba does that and we do not. If you want to show up in AI answers and see it measured, that is what we do all day.

Literally.dev

Literally.dev is an AEO specialist: engineers write your content and docs, our own pipeline measures where AI assistants rank you before and after, and distribution is built in, for a published $4,990 a month.

Hackmamba

Hackmamba is a generalist developer marketing agency: technical writing, docs, community, events, paid media, and a line called agentic marketing. AEO is one item on a long menu, and the only published price is for a dedicated technical writer, from $3,500 a month, with the full program quote-only.

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Andrei Gaspar, Founder of Literally.dev

What each costs

Both prices below come from public pages. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we say so instead of guessing.

Literally.dev

$4,990 / month

3-month minimum engagement

Published. The price is for The 90-Day AI Recommendation Sprint: 10 engineer-written articles a month, distribution, a guaranteed publication and newsletter feature, and a live AEO dashboard.

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Hackmamba

Not published

Quarterly agreements, 30-day paid trial

The one published price is for technical writing: a dedicated writer from $3,500 a month. The page does not say how many pieces that includes. Agentic marketing, docs, community, events, and paid media have no published price as of August 2026.

Verified against Hackmamba's published pages on 2026-08-28. Prices change. Check their site before you decide.

Side by side

Facts from each vendor’s own site. A line means the vendor does not say, not that the answer is no.

Capability	Literally.dev	Hackmamba
Team
Who writes the content	Hand-vetted engineers, the top 2.7% of experts	A dedicated technical writer per client, plus a 1,500+ creator community
Where the team is based	Oslo, Norway; core team in Europe	Founder in Norway, team in Nigeria; registered in the US
Built for	DevTool and tech companies	Developer marketing, full stack
Content
Content volume	10 articles a month in the Sprint	—
Technical documentation	Yes	Yes
AEO and measurement
Named AEO service	Yes	Not a specialist; GEO/AEO content is one line under "agentic marketing"
AEO baseline audit before work starts	Yes	—
AI visibility measurement	Owned pipeline (xEO), live dashboard	—
Results re-measured and reported	Yes	—
Distribution
Publishing and distribution handled	Yes	Community, events, paid media, own newsletter and podcast
Guaranteed monthly publication and newsletter features	Yes	—
Commercial
Pricing published	$4,990 a month	Technical writer only, from $3,500 a month; program not published
Minimum term	3 months	Quarterly agreements
Performance guarantee	We keep working free until the numbers move	30-day paid trial; writer swap if not a fit
Time to start	5 days or less	2 to 3 weeks on average

Verified against Hackmamba's published pages on 2026-08-28. Prices change. Check their site before you decide.

Who should pick which?

Pick Hackmamba if

You want one agency to run community, events, paid media, and content together.
You want a dedicated technical writer on a quarterly agreement and do not need AEO measured.
You are fine getting a quote for the full program rather than a published price.

Pick Literally.dev if

You want an AEO specialist: a baseline before work starts, a live dashboard, and a day-85 re-measure on our own pipeline.
You want engineers, PhDs, and book authors writing your content and docs under real bylines.
You want distribution handled, with a guaranteed monthly feature in a top publication and newsletter.
You want a published price for the whole program: $4,990 a month, 3-month minimum, with a performance guarantee.
You want a team based in Norway and Europe.

What our clients measured

Higher Conversion

5×

AppSignal readers converted at five times the rate of their old content. Measured in 90 days.

* AppSignal engagement, 2026

Seen by AI

4.4×

QA.tech mentions in AI search grew 4.4× after we took over their content.

* QA.tech engagement, 2026

Launches That Land

Product of the Day on Product Hunt for a QA.tech launch we backed with content.

* QA.tech launch, Product Hunt

Chris — Head of Marketing, QA.tech

Antonija — Content Lead, Aviator

Armend — Founder, GlassFlow

“I worked with 5-8 content/marketing agencies and you guys are the best experience I ever had.”

Chris — Head of Marketing, QA.tech

The 90-Day AI Recommendation Sprint

In 90 days, when your buyers ask AI what to use, your name comes up. Our analytics prove it.

Baseline audit: where AI ranks you today, on 25–50 real buyer queries
Live AEO dashboard — watch your rankings move
10 articles a month from the top 2.7% of experts — hand-vetted engineers, posted where AI reads
Guaranteed feature every month in a top tech publication with 4M+ readers
Guaranteed feature every month in a major tech newsletter
A 90-minute marketing workshop to nail your strategy and titles
A content strategy session every two weeks
Day 85: we re-run your baseline and show you exactly what moved
BONUS: you join our client network — amazing tech companies that promote each other with guest posts, backlinks, and mentions

$4,990 / month

3-month minimum engagement

Guarantee

Numbers don't move by day 90? We keep working for free until they do.

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We take on two new clients a month.

Frequently Asked
Questions

How much does Hackmamba cost?

Hackmamba does not publish a price for its full developer marketing program. The one listed price is for technical writing: a dedicated writer from $3,500 a month on quarterly agreements with a 30-day paid trial, and the page does not say how many pieces that includes. Literally.dev publishes one price for the whole sprint: $4,990 a month for 10 engineer-written articles, distribution, guaranteed placements, and AI visibility measurement, with a 3-month minimum.

Is Hackmamba an AEO agency?

Does Literally.dev do documentation too?

Who writes the content?

Should we build an in-house AEO team or hire an agency?

Self-serve AEO tools or a full-service agency?