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J·BJon BishopIndependent growth marketer

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Lobsters

A high-signal programming community with explicit story-submission rules and an invitation-based joining path.

Our assessment

Who this is useful for

Strong for genuinely technical launches, open-source projects, engineering writeups, and data tooling; product promotion must be incidental to useful discussion. Audience noted by the source: Technical, programming-focused readers interested in long-lived, substantive software topics.

DevelopersFoundersdeveloper toolsdata productscommunities

How to participate

  1. Create an account through an invitation from an existing member; submit tagged links/stories and participate in comments. The official About page says authors involved with a story can ask someone to send an invite.
  2. Check the channel's current eligibility, audience rules, and content or listing requirements.
  3. Track qualified visits, sign-ups, or partner-sourced pipeline with a channel-specific measure.

Rules and practical details

  • The site is intentionally anti-spam and does not guarantee visibility or acceptance; do not treat it as an advertising channel.
  • Global; invitation-gated and community-moderated. Self-promotion should be less than a quarter of a user's stories/comments.
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