A Year of Creator Wins: Highlights from the JetBrains Content Creators Program 2025
With more than 200 new members joining the JetBrains Content Creator community, we were bound to hear some exciting new things from them in 2025. Our members were steadily increasing in number, honing their YouTube videos, tirelessly keeping up with the posting schedule, and providing JetBrains perks directly to their audiences. But the real results of their work made us especially proud, so we decided to dedicate an entire article to our creators and their year!
Our wins start with folks who improved their lives thanks to their unstoppable creativity:
“One of my biggest accomplishments in 2025 has been taking my personal brand to the next level and turning it into something that now works very much like a company. This year I’ve been able to fully live off my content…largely thanks to the quality of the content and the steady growth of my community,”
says Carlos Belenguer Jover, a TikTok creator and Twitch streamer working under the name @melenitasdev.
The growth, according to Carlos, is the result of people’s genuine desire to learn programming through accessible and fun content. To us, it was inspiring to hear how JetBrains products were a key part of that journey:
“I use them daily in my own work and naturally across my videos and livestreams, and they’ve become deeply integrated into how I create, code, and teach.”
An unexpected tool switch
Some creator stories consisted of happy accidents, as was the case for YouTube creator Miguel Teheran:
“My story started three months ago when my Windows laptop showed me a strange white screen and after that it couldn’t turn on again…I decided to buy a used MacBook and use the Apple ecosystem since I use macOS [at work] as well. I installed Rider [and] all of my content in my channel is now recorded with Rider and I am motivating people to try this tool.”
Hitting massive reach and recognition
For all successful creators, personal highlights are connected to growth, and JetBrains creators grew big time in 2025. Anton Martynyuk’s newsletter at https://antondevtips.com has grown to more than 20K subscribers and Anton himself was recognized as a Microsoft MVP.
“JetBrains tools have helped a lot on this journey, as I use Rider, DataGrip, AI Assistant, and Junie every day.”
This wasn’t the first time Rider was mentioned to us. Adam Myhre frequently features it on the git-amend YouTube channel. As far as highlights go, Adam won Best Tutorial Series at Unity Awards 2025 and surpassed 2.5M views across his entire channel.
“Rider continues to be a major part of every video! Thank you for your support!”
Some of our champions almost tripled their growth targets, like Luciano Souza’s YouTube channel and other social media:
“In 2025 I’ve reached 140M views across networks (Instagram, X, and LinkedIn) and my goal was 50M through the year. I’m very happy with those results and all the effects that this brings to my career as a Software Engineer and Content Creator, and obviously JetBrains was with me on that.”
Beyond content: Books, OSS, and more
Two of our creators shone with projects outside of the content space: Jens Oliver Meiert wrote an entire book dedicated to web development, as did Ashley Allen, who published his Web Dev’s Guide to Freelancing.
“It’s been a productive and impactful year, and I’m very happy about the results – thanks in good part to WebStorm!”
“I wrote the entire book in PhpStorm, using Markdown files for content, then wrote/ran scripts to generate the PDF and EPUB files. Being able to do all this inside PhpStorm was a massive help for my workflow because I could get instant feedback on the book as I was writing it, all without leaving my IDE. JetBrains also played a part in this book by providing a discount code for all the book’s readers, which I am incredibly grateful for!”
Highlights for Ashley included using PhpStorm to maintain open-source Laravel/PHP packages totaling 3.1M downloads. For Jens, the entire year was dedicated to writing articles – more than a hundred of them – as well as various refactorings for Frontend Dogma and meiert.com.
These stories highlight something developers rarely talk about: using an IDE to manage the entire production – content, scripts, builds, and revisions – without constantly switching tools.
Learning through community
Several creators highlighted not just tools, but the broader ecosystem around them – from plugins and marketplaces to how new technologies reach developers. Saving the best for last, we decided to include Serena Sensini’s quote in full:
“I’ve been using JetBrains tools for a long, long time, and I’m super happy to be a partner, because this gave me the opportunity to make our followers [explore] the different products you develop, but especially to give people [a chance] to explore different and innovative ways to code. Bringing emerging technologies to the community through the implementation of a huge marketplace and its plugins, your work with the external communication and community engagement, is incredible and I really need to thank you for that.”
These stories go beyond individual wins. Creators’ workflows, feedback, and experiments shape how we think about the developer experience, tooling, and community. We’re grateful to everyone who shared their stories with us this year, with a special shoutout to Gerson Azabache Martinez, Ali Bouali, Artem Kondranin, and Faisal Memon.
Inspired by these stories?
Applications to the JetBrains Content Creator Program are open. If you create developer-focused content and want support, tools, and a community that grows with you, we’d love to hear from you!
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