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]. It does: [one sentence].…