Tier 1 • DR 90

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    How to submit your startup to DEV Community

    TL;DR • DEV Community • as of August 2026

    DEV Community is a founder communitie with Domain Rating 90. Submissions are free with paid upgrades and outbound links are dofollow. It sits in Tier 1 of our priority ranking, so it belongs in your first wave of submissions.

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    What DEV Community is

    Open-source community platform for developers to share articles, participate in discussions, and grow their careers.

    Listing facts

    Domain Rating 90
    Link type dofollow
    Submission price Free + paid
    Priority tier Tier 1
    Category Founder Communities
    Verification Cross-listed in 4 curated lists
    Dead-link risk low
    Independent sources 4

    Submission requirements

    Developer community and publishing platform

    Where DEV Community fits in your launch sequence

    1. 1. Prepare the submission kit once

      Almost every directory asks for the same nine things: product name, URL, a 60-character tagline, a 250-character short description, a long description, logo (square, 512px), 3–5 screenshots, pricing model and category. Write them once in a doc; you will paste them 50 times.

    2. 2. Do Tier 1 first, on separate days

      The 60 Tier 1 destinations drive the majority of real traffic. Space out the big launches — Product Hunt, Hacker News and the large communities each deserve their own day, because they each need you present to answer comments.

    3. 3. Batch the long tail

      Tier 2 and Tier 3 listings are a volume game: two to three hours in one sitting, copy-paste from your kit, no customisation beyond the category. Track which ones you completed so you never submit twice.

    4. 4. Prioritise dofollow when you need links

      400 entries pass link equity. If the goal is domain authority rather than traffic, sort by dofollow and DR and ignore everything else. Nofollow listings still matter for brand search and for LLM answers, but they will not move rankings directly.

    5. 5. Re-check and re-submit after launch

      Directories churn: listings get lost in migrations, and about one in ten links breaks within a year. Re-verify your live listings every quarter and resubmit anywhere the page 404s.

    Questions about submitting to DEV Community

    Is submitting to DEV Community free?

    DEV Community has a free tier plus paid upgrades (Freemium). Start with the free listing and only pay if the free one produces traffic.

    Does DEV Community give a dofollow link?

    Yes — outbound links from DEV Community are dofollow, so a listing passes link equity to your domain. At DR 90 that makes it one of the more valuable submissions for SEO.

    What do I need to submit to DEV Community?

    Developer community and publishing platform

    How reliable is this DEV Community listing?

    Status: Cross-listed in 4 curated lists. Dead-link risk: low. It appears in 4 independent curated sources. Last checked August 2026.

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    How to get real results from directory submissions

    What separates a directory worth your time from one that wastes it

    Four signals predict whether a listing produces anything: editorial review, indexed traffic, link type and category fit. If a site accepts every submission automatically, its pages are usually thin, poorly indexed and ignored by search engines. If it reviews submissions and has a real audience, a single listing can send buyers for years.

    • Editorial review: is there a human approving submissions?
    • Indexed traffic: does the directory rank for its own category terms?
    • Link type: dofollow passes authority, nofollow does not.
    • Category fit: a niche list of 200 relevant readers beats a general list of 200,000 irrelevant ones.

    The submission order that works best

    Order matters because early listings feed later ones. Journalists and curators check whether a product already exists somewhere credible before featuring it, so a handful of established listings makes later approvals easier and faster.

    • Week 0: your own site, Crunchbase-style databases, and two or three evergreen directories.
    • Week 1: launch platforms and the communities where your users already hang out.
    • Week 2–4: the long tail, batched, plus review platforms once you have customers who can leave reviews.
    • Quarterly: re-verify listings and add anything new to the category.

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