r/AppIdeas

App Ideas

Founded January 2011 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 9

Welcome! This subreddit is designed to be a professional environment where developers, entrepreneurs, and creators can come together to share their amazing app ideas. Please take a moment to look over our rules before posting.

Members

102,367

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+2.2%

+2.2K members · ≈33d

Published rules

6

3 mention promotion — quoted below

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Tracking since Aug 8 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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What r/AppIdeas's rules say about promotion

3 of 6 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. Posts must be App Ideas

    rule 1 of 6

    This subreddit is for posting app ideas. It doesn't have to be a fully formed idea, and the goal could be, for example, to share it, give it away, refine it through feedback, or look for people interested in discussing developing it, but there must be some defined app idea that the post is centrally about. The post can be about an idea you're working on developing, as long as it doesn't cross into self-promotion.
  2. No Self-Promotion or Advertisements

    rule 2 of 6

    This subreddit is not for sharing completed projects or for advertising an existing or upcoming project. Posts that contain links to apps on app stores, invite people to join mailing lists for projects, or are otherwise promoting or advertising an existing or upcoming app will be removed. Note: If you use this subreddit to distribute or promote sideloaded apps (e.g. APK files for Android phones), in addition to your post being removed you will be banned.
  3. 6. Automod

    rule 6 of 6

    To prevent spam, only the accounts older than a month and above 50 of karma can post in our community. If not in those requirements, your post will be automatically removed. Thanks for your understanding

The other 3

  • Always be Civil
  • No Low-Effort AI Content
  • Mod Discretion

Read from r/AppIdeas’s published rules on May 28. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.

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r/AppIdeas — frequently asked

How many members does r/AppIdeas have?

r/AppIdeas has 102,367 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/AppIdeas growing?

Over the last ≈33 days r/AppIdeas changed by +2.2% — a gain of 2.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/AppIdeas?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/AppIdeas yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/AppIdeas created?

r/AppIdeas was founded in January 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/AppIdeas?

r/AppIdeas publishes 6 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “Posts must be App Ideas”, says: This subreddit is for posting app ideas. It doesn't have to be a fully formed idea, and the goal could be, for example, to share it, give it away, refine it through feedback, or look for people interested in discussing… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/AppIdeas for mentions?

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Can my AI agent read r/AppIdeas's stats?

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r/AppIdeas Subreddit Stats — 102K members, +2.2% in 33d