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Where to launch a web-dev tool or library
Frontend and web-dev communities ranked by fit for launches — with the self-promo rules that decide whether your post survives.
25 channels, safest first
dev.to
developer blogging community
Low·Any weekday morning
freeCodeCamp News
Huge audience of learners and working developers; high-authority publication for tutorials and technical explainers.
Low·Mon-Wed, 9am-12pm ET
Frontend Focus
~50k+ frontend developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Wednesday)
Hashnode
developer blogging network
Low·Any weekday
JavaScript Weekly
~150k+ JS developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Friday)
React Status
~40k+ React developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Wednesday)
Ruby Weekly
~60k+ Ruby developers · weekly curated links
Low·Weekly (Thursday)
Astro Discord
~36k Astro developers
Medium·Anytime in #showcase
Bytes (JavaScript)
~200k+ subscribers · twice-weekly JS digest
Medium·Twice weekly (Mon & Thu)
devcord
~45k web developers & learners
Medium·Anytime in the self-promo channel
Next.js Discord
~110k Next.js developers
Medium·Anytime in #showcase
Nuxt Discord
~31k Nuxt & Vue developers
Medium·Anytime in the showcase channel
r/django
~130k Django developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/laravel
~90k Laravel developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/rails
~80k Ruby on Rails developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/sveltejs
~55k Svelte developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/vuejs
~100k Vue developers
Medium·Weekday mornings ET
r/webdev
2.6M members · web developers
Medium·Mon/Wed 9am ET
Svelte Discord
~66k Svelte developers
Medium·Anytime in the show-and-tell channel
Tailwind CSS Discord
~40k Tailwind CSS & frontend developers
Medium·Anytime in the show-and-tell channel
Vue Land
~40k Vue.js developers
Medium·Anytime in #show-and-tell
r/javascript
1.9M · JS developers
High·Weekday mornings ET
r/PHP
~170k PHP developers
High·Weekday mornings ET
r/reactjs
~400k React developers
High·Weekly Show thread
Reactiflux
~200k React & JavaScript developers
High·Weekday afternoons (US/EU overlap)
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