Marketing in r/startups

How to find customers in r/startups without getting banned: its size, its self-promotion policy, and the safest way to bring up your product.

How to post in r/startups without getting banned

Share genuine experience and let the product come up naturally; no direct pitching or links.

The winning pattern in r/startups: Discuss general startup methodologies or lessons without naming or linking your product, except in the designated Monthly Share Your Startup thread.

• Read the subreddit rules and the pinned posts before your first comment.
• Lead with a genuinely useful answer; mention your product only when it directly fits.
• Build karma by helping in threads for a while before you ever link out.
• Disclose your affiliation when you do mention what you built.

How Redditoro helps you market in r/startups

Doing all of that by hand, watching r/startups for the right threads, judging which are real buyers, and replying without breaking its stories only rule, is slow and easy to get wrong. Redditoro runs the whole loop for you:

• Monitors r/startups around the clock and surfaces the posts where someone describes a problem you solve or asks for a recommendation.
• Scores every match 1-10 for real buying intent, so your time goes to prospects, not noise.
• Drafts a reply in your voice with r/startups's stories only policy built in, so you engage without getting your account banned.
• Tracks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI start recommending you, the compounding payoff of showing up here.

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