r/webdev: rules, audience and how brands can post there
3,328,694 members. Self-promotion allowed? No commercial promotion. Projects on Saturdays.
r/webdev is a community of about 3.3 million front-end and back-end web developers. It bans commercial promotion and only allows project showcases on Saturdays.
Paste your draft on the next page. We flag likely self-promotion and rule problems before you post.
- Members
- 3,328,694
- Self-promotion
- No commercial promotion. Projects on Saturdays
- Created
- 2009
- Checked
- November 7, 2026
What r/webdev is
A community dedicated to all things web development: both front-end and back-end. For more design-related questions, try /r/web_design.
Developer tools that have a technical story to tell, can wait for Showoff Saturday, and will contribute the rest of the week.
Can a brand post in r/webdev?
Rule 4 bans commercial promotion and solicitation, and breaking it can get you banned. Rule 3 bans excessive self-promotion and points to Reddit's 9:1 rule. Rule 5 says a project, a portfolio or anything you want feedback on goes in Showoff Saturday with the correct flair, and commercial promotion there still falls under rule 4. The mods tell you to think project, not product, and to focus on technical details and why the audience should care. A brand can answer technical questions all week and show an open or technical project on Saturday. It can't pitch a product.
What works
- Showing a technical project on Showoff Saturday, with the right flair
- Writing about technical details and relevance to developers, as rule 5 asks
- Following the 9:1 rule that rule 3 cites, so help far outweighs promotion
- Giving context and research when asking for help, as rule 6 requires
What gets removed
- Commercial promotion or solicitation
- Project or feedback posts on any day but Saturday
- Memes, screenshots of bad design and jokes
- Vague support questions about plugins or editors
The rules, summarised
- 1. No vague support questions about WYSIWYG editors or other software.
No vague product support questions (like "why is this plugin not working" or "how do I set up X"). For vague product support questions, please use communities relevant to that product for best results.
- 2. No memes, screenshots, and jokes
Do not post memes, screenshots of bad design, or jokes. Check out /r/ProgrammerHumor/ for this type of content.
- 3. No self-promotion
Read and follow reddiquette; no excessive self-promotion. Please refer to the Reddit 9:1 rule when considering posting self promoting materials.
- 4. No commercial promotions/solicitations
No commercial promotion or solicitation. Violations can result in a ban.
- 5. No soliciting feedback not on Saturday
Sharing a project or asking for feedback is limited to Showoff Saturday, with correct flair. Commercial promotion still falls under the commercial promotion rule.
- 6. Assistance Questions Guidelines
If you are asking for assistance on a problem, you are required to provide Context of the problem Research you have completed prior to requesting assistance Problem you are attempting to solve with high specificity Questions in violation of this rule will be removed or locked.
- 7. Career/Getting Started Questions
Open-ended/general "how do I get started in web dev" and general Career related posts are only allowed within the pinned monthly career thread. The answer to many of these questions can also be found in the sub FAQ, or in /r/learnprogramming/ and /r/cscareerquestions/.
- 8. No low-effort posts/comments
Low-effort posts/comments will be removed. This includes title-only posts, easily searchable questions, vague/open-ended discussion prompts, LLM generated posts or comments, and posts/comments that do not provide enough context for meaningful replies or discussion.
Source: the community's own rules page, read on November 7, 2026. Rules change, so check the page before you post. See also the 9:1 rule.
Frequently asked questions
Can I promote my product on r/webdev?
No. Rule 4 bans commercial promotion and solicitation. You can show projects on Showoff Saturday, but not products, and commercial promotion still falls under rule 4.
When can I share my project on r/webdev?
Rule 5 limits sharing a project or asking for feedback to Showoff Saturday, with the correct flair.
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