r/webdevelopment rules, stats, and what to post

A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/webdevelopment: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.

Members: 85,871
Community age: Created Feb 2009, 17 years
To post: No minimum in the rules
To comment: No minimum in the rules
Self-promotion: Allowed with conditionsAllowed only if it is part of a discussion and genuinely helpful, not to drive traffic or land clients.
Links: Allowed with conditionsNo URL shorteners, link-only posts, medium blogs, or links to crowdfunding, petitions, and surveys.
Promo risk: HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts

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Rule summary

Be kind: Be kind
No self-promotion: Do not use the subreddit to promote: - Your business, products or paid services - Your freelancing services or agency - Your blog, newsletter, YouTube, or social media Sharing the content you made is fine if *it's part of a discussion and genuinely helpful*. But if your main goal is to drive traffic, grow an audience, or land clients, it's self-promo and will be removed. Ignoring this rule will lead to a ban.
Posts must be related to web development: Please do not post content that is unrelated to web development. Also do not post content that is exclusively related to vibe-coding (go to r/VibeCoding instead) or website builders.
No URL shorteners: Don't post links that were made by URL shorteners.
No link-only posts: Link posts and link-only text posts will be removed.
No clickbait titles: No clickbait titles
No links to crowdfunding sites, petitions, or surveys: No links to crowdfunding sites, petitions, or surveys
No medium blog posts: Do not post links to medium blogs / blog posts.
Use descriptive titles: Your title should summarize your post. Posts with titles such as „Need help“ will be removed.
No job offers: No job offers
No low effort posts or reposts: No low effort posts or reposts
Posts must be in English: Posts must be in English
No AI-generated content: No AI-generated content

Works well

A detailed question about a web development problem you are actually stuck on, with a descriptive title that summarizes it
A write up of a technical lesson you learned while building, posted as plain text with no link and no product mention
A helpful answer to someone else's question where your experience, and only if it fits naturally, your tool comes up as part of the discussion
A comparison or tradeoff discussion about web development approaches, written to share what you learned rather than to send people anywhere

Avoid

Posting your blog, newsletter, YouTube channel, or social media because “No self-promotion” names those directly
Dropping a link with no real discussion around it, since “No link-only posts” gets those removed
Sharing a Medium post, because “No medium blog posts” bans those links outright
Using a shortened URL, which “No URL shorteners” forbids
Writing a vague title like need help, which “Use descriptive titles” says gets removed
Posting anything AI-generated, because “No AI-generated content” is a flat ban with no exceptions listed

What r/webdevelopment Is For

This is a community for discussions about web development. The people here are developers and people learning to build for the web, and the rules keep the focus on actual web development topics. The rules also tell you where some things do not belong, since content that is exclusively about vibe-coding is sent to r/VibeCoding instead, and website builders are excluded too. So this is a room for talking about building the web, not for promoting what you built.

Rules That Matter Before Posting

The big one is “No self-promotion”. It says do not use the subreddit to promote your business, products, paid services, freelancing, agency, blog, newsletter, YouTube, or social media. The rule also spells out the one exception: sharing content you made is fine if it is part of a discussion and genuinely helpful. If your main goal is driving traffic, growing an audience, or landing clients, it counts as self-promo and gets removed, and ignoring the rule leads to a ban. “Posts must be related to web development” keeps the topic tight and specifically excludes content that is exclusively about vibe-coding or website builders. “No link-only posts” means a bare link gets removed, so whatever you share needs real text around it. “No medium blog posts” bans links to medium blogs and blog posts, which catches a lot of content marketing habits. “No URL shorteners” and “No links to crowdfunding sites, petitions, or surveys” close off the usual link tricks. “No AI-generated content” is a hard ban, so do not paste in text a chatbot wrote. “Use descriptive titles” and “No clickbait titles” mean your title has to summarize the post honestly. “No low effort posts or reposts” and “Posts must be in English” round out the basics.

What To Post

A good post here is a genuine discussion about web development. If you want to mention something you made, the safe shape is to answer a real question or add to a real conversation, with your content as a helpful part of the discussion rather than the point of it. Write your post in English, put real effort into it, and give it a title that honestly summarizes what the post says. If you include a link, make sure the post stands on its own as text, since link-only posts get removed. Skip anything a chatbot wrote for you, because AI-generated content is banned. The safest posts are the ones where you would still want to write them even if you could not mention your product at all.

What To Avoid

Do not promote your business, product, paid service, freelancing, agency, blog, newsletter, YouTube, or social media, because “No self-promotion” lists all of those and says ignoring it leads to a ban. Do not post a link with nothing around it, because “No link-only posts” removes those. Do not link to medium blogs, use URL shorteners, or link to crowdfunding sites, petitions, or surveys. Do not post anything AI-generated, because “No AI-generated content” bans it outright. Do not write a vague title like need help, because “Use descriptive titles” says posts like that get removed, and skip clickbait too. Do not post job offers, off-topic content, vibe-coding or website builder content, low effort posts, reposts, or posts in a language other than English. And be kind, since that is rule one.

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Common questions about r/webdevelopment

Can I share a tool I built?

Only if it is part of a discussion and genuinely helpful. If your main goal is traffic, audience growth, or landing clients, the rule calls it self-promo and it gets removed.

Can I link to my blog post that explains something?

No. “No medium blog posts” bans links to medium blogs and blog posts, so write your advice directly in the post instead.

Can I post a link with a short comment?

No. “No link-only posts” says link posts and link-only text posts will be removed, so pair any link with real substance in the post body.

Can I post about building a site with an AI website builder?

No. Rule 3 sends vibe-coding content to r/VibeCoding instead, and website builder content is excluded too.

Can I post that I am looking for a developer to hire?

No. “No job offers” is a flat rule, so keep hiring out of this subreddit.

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