r/BetaReaders
BetaReaders: Connecting Authors with Betas
Founded August 2011 · Public — anyone can post
Connecting authors with volunteer betas and talking all things critique. Looking for feedback on something you've written? Want to help an aspiring author polish their manuscript? Have a critique-related question? You're in the right place! Remember—no offering services or asking for money or payments after a “free sample” in the sub!
Members
71,774
72K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
16.8
from the last 100 posts, spanning 5.9 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 19
sampled Oct 19
Distinct posters
99%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Oct 19 · 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.
Member growth
Tracking since Oct 19 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/BetaReaders discusses.
Share your AI-assisted or AI-generated fiction or nonfiction to be read for criticism or just to entertain/inform. Also discuss writing books with AI in general (we favor AI-generated compared to AI-assisted r/WritingWithAI but whatever). Share your writing in a post directly or post to recruit beta readers. Please, no anti-AI, no non-writing AI discussion, no student papers, and no Turnitin. Books, novels, novellas, short stories, fanfic, hobbyist, for publication or fun are all welcome.
All are welcome at r/writers: fiction writers, nonfiction writers, bloggers and more! Get critique on your work, share resources, ask questions and help fellow writers.
An online writer's group dedicated to the sharing and constructive peer-review of each other's written work. **If you aren't sharing your writing, it doesn't belong here.**
A place to discuss just about everything in the world of indie books. *Not* a place for self-promotion.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/BetaReaders — frequently asked
How many members does r/BetaReaders have?
r/BetaReaders has 71,774 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 19. 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/BetaReaders growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/BetaReaders yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 19; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/BetaReaders?
Around 16.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 5.9 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/BetaReaders created?
r/BetaReaders was founded in August 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.
Who posts in r/BetaReaders?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 99% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 19. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/BetaReaders?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/BetaReaders yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/BetaReaders for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/BetaReaders into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/BetaReaders's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/BetaReaders's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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