You built something good. You'd rather ship features than write copy. Marketing feels fake, slow, and far from your comfort zone.

That's most developers with side projects.

Here's the thing: the copy-to-prompt gap is real. Most "AI marketing tips" assume you know what you want to say. What developers actually need are structured prompts that extract the right information first , then produce usable output.

These prompts work for that. Copy, paste, fill in the brackets, ship.

Why most AI marketing prompts fail developers

Generic prompt:

"Write a marketing email for my SaaS product."

Output: forgettable.

Better prompt:

"My product is [X]. It solves [Y] for [Z]. The biggest objection they have is [A]. Write a 3-sentence email subject + preview text that addresses that objection directly."

Output: targeted. Higher open rate. No rewriting needed.

Every prompt below follows this pattern: context-in, usable-output-out .

Landing Page Prompts

1. Above-the-fold headline

My product: [name].…