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ProgrammingBuddies()

Find active programming buddies, mentors, mentees, and study partners. Include timezone, stack, experience, and goal in buddy-finding posts.

106k subscribers477 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)347 authors / mosince 2014

r/ProgrammingBuddies has 106k members (+24% over the last 12 months). It gets about 477 posts a month from 347 people. Top topics: Learn C# & Unity, Learning Resources and Learning C++ Programming Projects.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+24%in 12 months · +4.1% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 2026106k
Growing106k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−32%vs Sep 2025 · +4.4% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026477
QuieterPeaked at 824 in Jul 2025
Sep 2026: incl. ~1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/ProgrammingBuddies

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Learn C# & Unity1.2%
  2. Learning Resources0.9%
  3. Learning C++ Programming Projects0.9%
  4. Python Courses and Resources0.7%
  5. Data Structures & Algorithms0.5%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. LinkedIn
  2. roadmap.sh
  3. Skool
  4. Association for Computing Machinery
  5. itch

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research

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