Where to share dev blogs for traffic

📍 Where to share dev blogs for traffic

Here are the highest-impact places, ranked roughly by the quality of traffic you can get:

🥇 Aggregators & link communities (biggest traffic spikes)

• Hacker News — Still the king. A front-page post (or a "Show HN" for a product/launch) can drive more qualified traffic than months of marketing. Post genuinely useful or interesting pieces; the community punishes anything that smells like marketing.
• Reddit — Subreddits like r/programming, r/webdev, r/learnprogramming, and niche subs matching your topic can send serious traffic — but read each sub's self-promotion rules first, and participate in the community before dropping links. Showcase-friendly subs like r/SideProject and r/IMadeThis tolerate links better; r/startups and r/Entrepreneur are much stricter.
• Lobsters — Invite-only HN alternative with stricter quality control and a highly technical audience (20k+ users).
• daily.dev — A news feed sourced from thousands of dev blogs; getting picked up here puts your post in front of a huge dev audience.

✍️ Republishing / syndication platforms

• dev.to — Cross-post with a canonical URL; great feedback and community discussion.
• Medium — Republish for reach beyond the dev niche; use the canonical import tool.
• Hashnode — Developer blogging with built-in network discovery.
• HackerNoon — No ads or paywalls, human editors, and consistently one of the best traffic gainers according to devs who use it.
• DZone — Enterprise-dev focused, good for architecture/best-practice content.

🐦 Social media

• X/Twitter — Where most dev discourse still happens; share threads, not just links.
• Bluesky — A meaningful slice of the dev community has moved there (40M+ users, open protocol).
• LinkedIn — Good for reaching engineering leaders and decision-makers.
• Facebook groups — Niche dev groups can still drive surprising traffic.

💬 Community & niche channels

• Stack Overflow — Not for links, but answering questions where your post genuinely helps builds reputation that routes traffic long-term.
• GitHub Discussions — If you maintain an OSS project; announce posts to your repo's community.
• Indie Hackers — If your content touches building/shipping products.
• Discord/Slack dev servers — Share where appropriate in channel communities (many language/framework communities have one).
• Quora — Answer related questions and link to your deeper post.
• Dev newsletters — Submitting to curated newsletters (CooperPress publications like Node Weekly, etc.) is one of the best ROI channels.

⚠️ Practical tips

• Don't blast the same link everywhere — adapt the framing for each community's culture, and engage with comments wherever you post.
• Reddit and HN reward participation — accounts that only self-promote get ignored or banned.
• Timing helps — HN front-page odds are best on weekday mornings (US time); dev newsletter submissions usually need to go in before the weekend curation.
• Stack the small channels — newsletter mentions + niche subreddits + dev.to reposts compound into steady traffic, while HN/Reddit provide the occasional big spike.