IntoruBack to home
All communities

Can you promote in r/programmingbuddies?

Find active programming buddies, mentors, mentees, and study partners. Include timezone, stack, experience, and goal in buddy-finding posts.

The short answer

Do not mention or promote your product/company; participate only as a genuine buddy/mentor and follow posting requirements (timezone, stack, experience, goal) without links or solicitations.

What works here

  • Posting to find programming buddies, mentors, mentees, study partners
  • Using the weekly match thread to find matches
  • Offering mentorship or pairing if you follow flair and posting guidelines

What gets posts removed

  • Promoting products, tutorials, or asking users to review your product
  • Posting links or invites to off-site platforms (Discord, Telegram, Slack, etc.)
  • Recruiting users, soliciting customers, or lead-generation messages

Where this comes from

View the current official rules on Reddit

No promotion / self-promotion rule

The rules and sidebar list 'No promotion' and 'Self-promotion' as disallowed, banning product links or requests for reviews.

No off-site recruitment or invites

The rules explicitly forbid recruiting to Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp/Slack or posting invite links and require initial contact to stay on Reddit.

Purpose is buddy-finding

Sidebar and posting guidelines require posts be about finding programming buddies/mentors and include timezone, stack, experience, goal.

Spam ban and post frequency

Rule 'No spam!' and guidance on not posting too often indicate promotional or repetitive commercial posts will be removed/banned.

Official rules of r/programmingbuddies

  1. 01Relevant information.
  2. 02No spam!
  3. 03No promotion.
  4. 04No idea guys or job recruiters are welcome.
  5. 05This is not a support forum.
  6. 06Post frequency. (Does not apply to posts with no or very few responses)
  7. 07Stay in the topic
  8. 08English only.
  9. 09Don't be an a**hole.
  10. 10No off-site recruitment or Discord contact requests

Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed July 8, 2026. Rules change; the official rules page is always the source of truth.

Read the Intoru research and correction methodology.

Intoru follows these rules for you.

It finds people in r/programmingbuddies and hundreds of other communities who are looking for what you sell, and drafts replies that fit each community’s rules, so you help first and never read as spam.

Find your buyers on Reddit