Subreddit rules check
r/indiedev
Can you promote here?
Promotion is allowed only with moderator permission (or inside designated threads). A short, honest modmail before posting costs two minutes and functions as a safe-conduct pass; skipping it is the most common avoidable removal.
From the rules · Capsule-comparison posts are banned except on Wednesdays; prefer image/GIF posts and avoid posting only Steam/Kickstarter/YouTube links without context.
Links
The rules clearly allow links. A plain-text mention still often outperforms a URL from a young account.
What this community rewards
Dominant post formats: showcase, discussion, guide
Short, first-person headline (e.g. “I added new clouds in my game”), lead with high-quality screenshots/GIFs, 1–3 sentences of context and a clear question or lesson. Tone: humble, technical, peer-to-peer. Keep posts visual and concise — progress shots, dev tips, postmortems and specific feedback requests get upvoted; pure marketing/store posts get ignored or downvoted.
Arriving in the local format matters: cross-posting the same text everywhere reads as tourist instantly. The wider method is in the Reddit playbook.
Classified mechanically from the community's published rules and recent top posts, last checked July 2026. Rules change and moderators have the final say: verify at r/indiedev's rules page before posting anything that matters.
Thread Otter checks this before every send
These profiles power the product: promo-banned communities never receive a promotional draft, drafts arrive in the local format, and a fact-check gate plus human pacing protect the account doing the talking.