Write for Us: Share Your Expertise With Northstar
Technology moves forward when useful knowledge is shared. We welcome original ideas from developers, eCommerce specialists, technology professionals, and industry experts who have practical insights to share with businesses and technical teams.
Northstar Insights
Contribute Insights That Matter
At Northstar, we believe the most valuable technology content combines clear thinking with practical experience. Our blog explores the platforms, decisions, and development practices that help businesses build better digital experiences.
If you have a useful perspective, a real-world lesson, or a thoughtful technical explanation to share, we invite you to propose an article for editorial review.
Why contribute
Why Contribute to Northstar?
We value thoughtful writing that helps professionals solve real problems, evaluate options, and learn from experience.
Share Practical Expertise
Turn your experience into useful guidance for business and technical readers.
Connect With a Relevant Audience
Reach readers interested in eCommerce, software engineering, and digital operations.
Receive Professional Attribution
Accepted contributions may include an author byline and suitable professional background, subject to editorial policy.
Build Meaningful Industry Relationships
Start conversations through useful research and shared knowledge, not promotional link exchanges.
Editorial focus
Topics We're Interested In
We focus on original, useful articles that complement Northstar's work and answer real questions from merchants, software teams, and business leaders.
eCommerce & Platform Development
Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, headless commerce, Catalyst, storefront performance, integrations, platform migrations, and B2B commerce.
Software & SaaS Engineering
Application architecture, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, APIs, engineering quality, security, performance, and scalable systems.
ERP & Business Automation
Odoo, ERPNext, ERP implementation decisions, workflow automation, operations, and integration patterns.
Digital Experience & Applied Innovation
Product design, accessibility, UX, developer experience, practical AI use cases, and digital transformation with demonstrable business value.
Not sure whether your idea fits? Describe the audience, the problem, and the value of your proposed article in the submission form.
Submission Process
Submit Your Idea
Start with a short proposal. We'll assess fit before you write a full draft.
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Choose an article idea aligned with our audience and editorial guidelines.
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Share a working title, brief outline, relevant experience, and published writing examples if available.
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Our team evaluates relevance, originality, clarity, and value to readers. We may request more information.
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If your idea is selected, we will share the next editorial steps. Publication remains subject to final review.
Sending a proposal does not guarantee a response by a specific date or publication.
Editorial standards
Our Editorial Guidelines
We review every proposal with our audience in mind. Submitting an idea does not guarantee acceptance or publication.
Relevant subject matter
Direct relevance to the technology, eCommerce, and business systems topics listed above.
Original thinking
Work that is genuinely your own, with meaningful first-hand experience, analysis, examples, or research.
Practical value
Clear explanations, implementation insights, comparisons, lessons learned, or actionable advice.
Accuracy and evidence
Correct technical claims and suitable references for factual statements, research, statistics, or quotations.
Clear writing
Professional English, descriptive headings, useful examples, and natural, not repetitive terminology.
Rights and permissions
Submit only text, screenshots, code, and graphics you have the right to share. If you use AI assistance, you remain responsible for originality and accuracy.
Get in touch
Questions About Contributing?
Have a question before submitting? You can contact Northstar using the details below.
Submit Your Article Proposal
Share a concise pitch: what you want to write and how it helps our readers.
Include a working title, short outline, your background, and writing samples if available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Eligibility, pitches, links, timing, and publication.
We welcome relevant proposals from developers, technology professionals, consultants, researchers, and business leaders who have valuable experience or insight to share. Every proposal goes through editorial review.
We focus on eCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce, software and SaaS engineering, ERP systems, integrations, digital experience, and practical emerging technologies.
No. Please start with a working title, a short outline, and any useful background or writing samples. We may request a full article after reviewing your pitch.
Useful citations may be considered when they improve the article. Promotional links, paid placements designed to pass ranking credit, and guaranteed followed backlinks are not part of our editorial program.
No. Acceptance depends on relevance, originality, quality, and editorial priorities. We may ask for revisions or decline a proposal.
We review submissions as editorial capacity allows. If we need more information or want to proceed, we may contact you using the details provided.
Have an Idea Worth Sharing?
If you have practical insights that could help our readers, we'd be glad to consider your proposal.