Developers are unusually open about their problems. They write detailed questions, compare libraries in comment threads, and open issues describing exactly what is missing. For a developer tool, that public record is the best place to find people who need what you built, and the place where a careless pitch does the most damage.
Where Distrarc looks for developer tools
When Distrarc reads your site and decides your audience is technical, it routes searches to sources where developers ask for help, such as:
- Hacker News: Ask HN requests and comment threads comparing tools.
- Stack Overflow and related Stack Exchange sites: questions where a tool is a legitimate part of the answer.
- GitHub: issues and discussions describing a gap your tool fills.
- Reddit and Bluesky: developer communities and posts asking for recommendations.
Which sources run depends on your product and on what is available at the time. Each result links to the original post, with its date and the reason it fits.
What a good reply looks like here
Technical audiences reward specifics: a short explanation of the approach, a code-level hint, an honest note on trade-offs. Distrarc's reply drafts answer the question first, mention your tool at most once and only when it helps, and include a plain disclosure such as "I built this". You edit and post the reply yourself. For platform norms, see the GitHub, Stack Overflow and Hacker News guides.
Open source projects
If your project is open source, the same approach helps you find users who would benefit from it. Be especially careful in other projects' issue trackers: only suggest your project where it directly answers the question, and respect the maintainers' wishes.
After the first users
After you sign up, Distrarc reads your site and docs for context and searches GitHub issues, Stack Exchange, Hacker News and more for developers asking for what you build. See sources.
Start with a free first report to see what Distrarc finds for your tool, then compare plans and the 7-day trial.