Hobby programmers: communities and participation rules
They write software in their spare time for personal projects, useful little tools, and the enjoyment of experimenting with code.
Related communities · 232
Places with a sampled week come first, followed by recorded membership. Membership is neither activity nor a recommendation score.
- r/learnjavascript272k members · 2025-01
- Language
- English
- Introducing a product
- Excerpt recorded; check its scope
Recorded rule excerptNo unvetted self-promotion.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
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- r/badUIbattles243k members · 2025-01
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- English
- Introducing a product
- Not established
Recorded rule excerptText posts must be a request for a style of bad UI.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
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- r/C_Programming185k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
- Not established
Recorded rule excerptThis does not apply to question posts with links to source code you are asking about.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Every post of 2026-09 in Reddit's public archive (Arctic Shift's monthly file); up to 60 posts a place, fixed by the hash of the post's id, judged one by one by Jev: written by one of these people, and showing one's own work; still up as the archive's second look a day and a half later found it.
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- r/learnjava169k members · 2025-01
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- English
- Introducing a product
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Recorded rule excerptPlease do not post complete solutions.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Every post of 2026-09 in Reddit's public archive (Arctic Shift's monthly file); up to 60 posts a place, fixed by the hash of the post's id, judged one by one by Jev: written by one of these people, and showing one's own work; still up as the archive's second look a day and a half later found it.
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- r/AskProgramming164k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
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Recorded rule excerptIf you just recommend a tool in general as an answer that is fine though.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
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- r/adventofcode131k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
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Recorded rule excerptTop-level posts
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Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
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- r/css131k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
- Not established
No original wording is recorded for this action, so permission cannot be established here.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
View source · record organized October 14, 2026 - r/robloxgamedev119k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
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Recorded rule excerptplease make sure to directly assist with their problem
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Every post of 2026-09 in Reddit's public archive (Arctic Shift's monthly file); up to 60 posts a place, fixed by the hash of the post's id, judged one by one by Jev: written by one of these people, and showing one's own work; still up as the archive's second look a day and a half later found it.
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- r/cs50119k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
- Not established
No original wording is recorded for this action, so permission cannot be established here.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
View source · record organized October 14, 2026 - r/ProgrammingLanguages108k members · 2025-01
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- Introducing a product
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Recorded rule excerptIf your post is any variation of "what language should I learn", "help me learn X language" or "what is the best programming language", it WILL be removed.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
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- r/proceduralgeneration106k members · 2025-01
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- English
- Introducing a product
- Not established
No original wording is recorded for this action, so permission cannot be established here.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Every post of 2026-09 in Reddit's public archive (Arctic Shift's monthly file); up to 60 posts a place, fixed by the hash of the post's id, judged one by one by Jev: written by one of these people, and showing one's own work; still up as the archive's second look a day and a half later found it.
View source · record organized October 15, 2026 - r/itrunsdoom104k members · 2025-01
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Recorded rule excerptIf you show something running DooM, it *must* include a link to a description, video, or download with how to get it running.
Rules and sources →Discussion sample availableWhy this appears
Listed through a recorded audience relationship. Demand for your product has not been verified here.
Which groups each place is for, judged by a model on the place's own description in the list; no posts read.
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After finding a community, find the conversations worth joining.
Hmm uses your product’s context to find relevant discussions, prepare replies and follow responses after you send. ahahmm has not launched yet; Mac comes first, with Windows in development.