LaunchWakeChannels / Where to share an open-source project
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Where to share an open-source project
The places that celebrate open-source launches — and the disclosure norms each expects from maintainers sharing their own work.
28 channels, safest first
Bluesky
Fast-growing open social network with a large developer, open-source, and indie-maker presence built on the AT Protocol.
Low·Weekdays, 9am-12pm ET
Changelog News
Thousands of developers · weekly dev news + podcast
Low·Weekly (Monday)
Console.dev
~30k+ developers · weekly devtools reviews
Low·Weekly (published Thursdays)
DevHunt
developer tools · built by developers
Low·Rolling (weekly)
Fosstodon
Invite-friendly Mastodon instance for people into technology and free & open-source software.
Low·Weekdays, 9-11am ET
Golang Weekly
~40k+ Go developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Friday)
Hacker News
front page · technical, skeptical, high reach
Low·Tue–Thu 8am ET
Hacker News — Show HN
~5M developers & founders · very high intent
Low·Tue–Thu 8am ET
Node Weekly
~80k+ Node.js developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Wednesday)
PyCoder's Weekly
~100k+ Python developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Wednesday)
Ruby Weekly
~60k+ Ruby developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Thursday)
Elixir Language Discord
~20k Elixir developers
Medium·Anytime in the showcase channel
Gophers Slack
~40k Go developers
Medium·Anytime in #showandtell
Hachyderm
Curated Mastodon instance of tech-industry professionals; strong SRE, infrastructure, and engineering presence.
Medium·Weekdays, 10am-1pm ET
Hacker Newsletter
~60k subscribers · weekly best of Hacker News
Medium·Weekly (Friday)
Lobste.rs
invite-only · high-signal technical crowd
Medium·Invite only
Python Weekly
~100k+ Python developers · weekly curated links
Medium·Weekly (Thursday)
r/FlutterDev
~180k Flutter developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/golang
~250k Go developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/LocalLLaMA
~300k local-LLM enthusiasts
Medium·Weekday evenings ET
r/Python
~1.3M Python developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/rust
~300k Rust developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/selfhosted
self-hosting & open-source enthusiasts
Medium·Weekend mornings
Rust Programming Language Community
~70k Rust developers
Medium·Anytime in #showcase
Supabase Discord
~50k developers building on Supabase
Medium·Anytime in #showcase
Python Discord
~350k Python developers
High·Weekday afternoons
r/programming
6M+ · general programming, skeptical
High·Weekday mornings ET
The Programmer's Hangout
~100k general programmers
High·Weekday evenings
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