Community Picks
Community Picks allows developers to submit high-quality content from across the web to share with the daily.dev community. Help surface excellent posts that made a real impact on your tech journey.
Submit content that needs more exposure - in-depth tutorials, thoughtful technical perspectives, or well-crafted developer entertainment from creators you admire.
Requirements
✨ Scout privilege required - Earn 250+ reputation points to unlock submission access
✨ Daily limit - Maximum 5 submissions per day
✨ Quality focus - Review our content guidelines before submitting
Watch the overview video below to understand how Community Picks works.
Finding Community Picks
Community Picks appear throughout daily.dev alongside content from our curated sources. They're sourced from any website or publication - not limited to our pre-qualified sources.
Identification
Look for the Community Picks icon in the top-left corner of post cards. Click this icon to access the dedicated Community Picks feed.
Dedicated Feed
Browse all community-submitted content in the Community Picks feed.
How to Submit
Access Community Picks submission through the Submit Link button in the Contribute section of the left sidebar.
Submission Process
- Find the Submit Link button in the left sidebar under "Contribute"
- Paste the post URL in the submission modal
- Click Submit to queue for review
Self-promotion is not allowed. Submit excellent content from other authors you've enjoyed. For your own content, see our How to get featured guide.
How to submit a link
On the menu on the left you will see a section "Contribute" containing a button "Submit link".
Clicking on that button will open the "Submit link" modal.
This is how the modal looks like
Here you can paste in the post URL and then press submit.
You will then see either a success, already exists or error message.
Please note that submitting your own articles is not allowed. Please share amazing articles from other authors that you have enjoyed. If you're looking for ways to post your own content please refer to our "How to get featured?" guide.
Post already exists
If the post already exists in the daily.dev feed you will see a message explaining the post already exists and a link to that post.
Successful Submissions
If the post you submitted has a valid URL and doesn't already exist you will get a confirmation that you will be notified by an in-app notification and an email about the request status.
Rejection Scenarios
There are multiple reasons why a submission to Community Picks could fail.
Before submission
| Message | Notes |
|---|---|
| You do not have sufficient permissions and or reputation to submit a link to Community Picks yet. | You need 250 reputation and to have not received a ban from posting Community Picks in order to be able to submit a link |
| You can only submit 3 links per day and have reached your limit. Please try again tomorrow. | None |
| The URL you submitted is not valid, please check and try again. | Please include the full url including "https://" etc. when submitting a link |
| This post has previously appeared in the daily.dev feed but was deleted and cannot be added to the feed again. | We may delete posts that do not meet our content guidelines. Once a post has been deleted it cannot be added to the daily.dev feed again |
After submission (via email)
| Failure reason | Notes |
|---|---|
| We ran into a problem adding this post, our team is looking into it. | This is a generic fallback which normally displays when our crawler could not extract some key information such as the title of the post |
| This post is already on daily.dev! | If you manage to submit a post at the same time as someone else it may be possible that the post will exist once we come to process it and so you will receive this message |
| The post you submitted is written by an author who violated our community guidelines and is banned. We no longer accept submissions from this author. | It is rare we ban authors, but occasionally they consistently post spammy or NSFW content that is not suitable for daily.dev. We will not accept any posts written by these authors. |
| You can’t submit your own posts as community picks, please suggest posts by other people. | Community Picks are not designed for self promotion, instead try submitting posts written by others that you think will benefit the community. |
| The post you submitted is behind a paywall, so we cannot add it to the daily.dev feed. | We try our best to make sure all posts shared are free for the community. If we detect a paywall then a post will not be accepted for the feed. |
| There was an error and we were unable to gather the required information from the URL submitted to add it to our feed. | If a site has an unusual structure our crawler may not be able to parse the page correctly to create the tags and TLDR. |