r/business
Founded September 2007 · Public — anyone can post
/r/business brings you the best of your business section. From tips for running a business, to pitfalls to avoid, /r/business teaches you the smart moves and helps you dodge the foolish.
Members
2,592,569
2.6M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
5.1
from the last 100 posts, spanning 19.5 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
Published rules
10
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Sep 22
sampled Sep 23
Distinct posters
59%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 2 · 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
What r/business's rules say about promotion
1 of 10 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
This is not the place to promote your business.
rule 1 of 10
Any and every post promoting a business in any capacity will be removed.
The other 9
- Spamming will result in an instant ban.
- Connection to article submissions is not allowed.
- No blogspam.
- No politics.
- Bad company behavior belongs elsewhere.
- Keep things business casual
- Follow reddiquette
- Include context for direct video submissions.
- Surveys, questionnaires and (market) research are not allowed
Read from r/business’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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Communities that discuss what r/business discusses.
This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business only.
**The subreddit for Entrepreneurs** * Ask Questions * Post articles * Discuss business ideas * Get mentoring help -- **Related Subreddits** * /r/smallbusiness * /r/startups * /r/Bookkeeping * /r/growmybusiness
Welcome to r/growmybusiness. This is the place to find and share creative advice to optimize your business growth.
A community for established entrepreneurs to share tips, tricks, and fundamentals on growing your business to the next level.
Honest feedback on business ideas. Post your idea with real detail, get told what's wrong with it (and what might work). No self-promotion, no polls, no AI-generated posts, no "what business should I start?" with zero context. Use a flair. Follow the template. Search before posting.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/business — frequently asked
How many members does r/business have?
r/business has 2,592,569 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 23. 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/business growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/business yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 2; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/business?
Around 5.1 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 19.5 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/business created?
r/business was founded in September 2007 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/business?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 59% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 22. 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/business?
r/business publishes 10 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “This is not the place to promote your business.”, says: Any and every post promoting a business in any capacity will be removed. 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/business for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/business 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/business's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/business'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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