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Can you promote in r/developers?

Share your knowledge, ask questions, and engage with other members of the community.

The short answer

Engage as a helpful community member: answer questions and share expertise without mentioning or linking to your product, asking for contacts, or soliciting users.

What works here

  • on-topic technical Q&A and discussion
  • sharing code/errors inline in posts or comments
  • professional, respectful participation

What gets posts removed

  • promoting your product, startup, blog, service, or channel
  • posting external links or asking users to DM you
  • posting surveys, research, or recruitment without prior mod approval

Where this comes from

View the current official rules on Reddit

No self-promotion

The rules state the subreddit is not a place to advertise or promote your product, startup, blog, course, video channel, newsletter, or services.

No external links

Posts must be text only and links to sites outside Reddit are not allowed in posts or comments, preventing lead-generation links.

No solicitation or 'DM me'

Asking others to DM you or sending users to private messages for help, code, work, or anything else is prohibited.

No spam or engagement farming

The community bans repetitive posting, bots, and accounts used mainly to spam, which covers commercial outreach.

Surveys/research require approval

Surveys, user studies and similar data-collection requests need prior mod approval.

Official rules of r/developers

  1. 01Be respectful and professional
  2. 02Stay on topic
  3. 03No spam or engagement farming
  4. 04No self-promotion
  5. 05No external links
  6. 06No solicitation or "DM me"
  7. 07Put in effort, and use a clear title
  8. 08Search first, and use the megathreads
  9. 09No job, hiring, or "for hire" posts
  10. 10No surveys, research, or data collection without approval
  11. 11No AI-generated content passed off as your own
  12. 12No illegal content, and follow Reddit's rules

Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed July 26, 2026. Rules change; the official rules page is always the source of truth.

Read the Intoru research and correction methodology.

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