About r/developersIndia
In its own words:
A wholesome community made by & for software & tech folks in India. Have a doubt? Ask it out.
Community guide
r/developersIndia (#652, about 1.6 million subscribers) — A wholesome community made by & for software & tech folks in India. Have a doubt? Ask it out. A recent sample averaged 272 posts a day (~83% text, ~8% image, ~4% video). Its public rules include: Search the Internet, this Subreddit and our wiki before posting; Always use the right flair for your posts; Don't create Low-Quality Posts & Comments; Don't Post Generic Questions; No NSFW Content.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes/empty shitposts are often removed—add real context. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rule list—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Help, General, Career, I Made This:snoo_wink:. Volume is high—clear titles help.
The community was created on Jan 21, 2020, which makes it 6 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 2,794 subscribers (+0.17%). It sits just behind r/indiameme (#651) and ahead of r/skiing (#653) in our ranking.
What sets r/developersIndia apart
r/developersIndia is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 83% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 166.7 new posts a day per million members, more than 99% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.52% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 96% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (12:00 UTC) sees about 10.7× as many posts as the quietest (23:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/developersIndia grew from 1,607,113 to 1,631,585 subscribers (+24.5K, +1.52%). That is about 480 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/developersIndia this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Claude has honestly made my WFH life a lot better - a positive experienceu/Sensitive-Law-3625 · Nov 2 · text post
- My former colleague who was abused mentally by our management and laid off just got into a faang company.u/kochikaran-1922 · Nov 4 · text post
- For the sanity of mind of everyone, could we list down the lala companies operating in Bengaluruu/Wooden_Effective_551 · Nov 1 · text post
- Job in DRDO vs working in IT sector a comparison i sawu/EducationalRoyal2985 · Nov 6 · text post
- My first open source Android app crossed 20k downloads and 1k GitHub stars in 10 daysu/manish9461 · Nov 2 · gallery
- Is it true the higher ur ctc higher are the chances of getting laid offu/Vegetable_Mark3961 · Nov 2 · text post
- IT job is a lottery system now. One in 1000 gets a job and they don’t know how they got it.u/Maleficent_Mess6445 · Nov 1 · text post
- Should I move to USA for 150k TC or stay in india?u/DependentBug6473 · Nov 4 · text post
- TCS (32 LPA) vs EPAM (38 LPA) vs Thailand Product Company (120K THB) – What should I choose?u/Key_Permission_8314 · Nov 3 · text post
- Laid off today for the first time in my 8 year of careeru/navedaman · Nov 6 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/developersIndia, from 2023 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Is this problem solveable with a week/end hackathon ?u/Lychee7 · Oct 25, 2025 · image
- I built real dark mode for my website - your cursor is now a flashlightu/the2ndfloorguy · Oct 2, 2025 · video
- My success story from a failure in school in a tier 3 city and a tier 3 college in India to a millionaire in the USAug 2, 2024 · text post
- started with a raspberry pi, now i run an entire AWS region at homeu/0xN1nja · Apr 25, 2026
- I learned interview skills from a candidate today!u/CorrectTry8518 · May 6, 2025 · text post
- Unexpected customer 🙃u/Global-Letterhead-88 · Mar 3, 2023 · 3,969 points · 263 comments · gallery
- Hosted my own cloud storage because google drive sucksssu/Physical-Pudding-833 · Jan 5, 2025 · video
- India’s biggest data breachOct 31, 2023 · image
- Nomora (nomora.co.in) terminated me after 28 days of fixing their production messes, refused to pay a single rupee, and sent this email. Founder: Suraj Agrawalu/prodip1430 · Nov 28, 2025 · text post
- just another day at office. Toxic culture at its peaku/me_109 · May 10, 2024 · gallery
What r/developersIndia talks about
Looking at the titles of 699 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “job”, “advice”, “built”, “career” and “tech”. Other frequent themes are looking, help, experience, india, company and engineer. Recurring phrases include “career advice”, “open source”, “software engineer” and “cse student”. By format, 83% are text posts, 8% are images and 4% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Help (190), General (133), Career (82), I Made This :snoo_wink: (78), Suggestions (65), Resume Review (23).
Activity and best time to post
r/developersIndia gets about 270 new posts a day. The public archive holds 350,854 posts and 2,597,571 comments in total, about 7.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (319 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (222). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 23:00 UTC.
Rules of r/developersIndia
The moderators of r/developersIndia list 13 rules. In short:
- Search the Internet, this Subreddit and our wiki before posting
- Always use the right flair for your posts
- Don't create Low-Quality Posts & Comments
- Don't Post Generic Questions
- No NSFW Content
- No Political Discussions
- Respectful & Inclusive Language
- Be kind and helpful. No hate speech
- Follow the Moderation
- No memes and rants
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/developersIndia and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/developersIndia?
r/developersIndia has 1,631,585 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #652 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 24,472 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/developersIndia created?
r/developersIndia was created on Jan 21, 2020, so it has been around for 6 years.
Is r/developersIndia still active?
Yes. r/developersIndia gets about 270 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 350,854 posts and 2,597,571 comments. In a sample of 699 recent posts we counted 585 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/developersIndia?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 12:00 UTC, with the fewest around 23:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/developersIndia?
The community describes itself as: “A wholesome community made by & for software & tech folks in India. Have a doubt? Ask it out.” Recent post titles often mention job, advice, built, career and tech. Most posts are text posts (83%).
Is r/developersIndia SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/developersIndia as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/developersIndia?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/developersIndia accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 13 posted rules, starting with: “Search the Internet, this Subreddit and our wiki before posting”; “Always use the right flair for your posts”; “Don't create Low-Quality Posts & Comments”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/developersIndia?
Communities with similar topics include r/india (3.5M), r/wholesome (1.2M), r/cscareerquestions (2.4M), r/pcmasterrace (16.4M) and r/jobs (2.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/developersIndia.