r/Business_Ideas
Business Ideas
Founded March 2013 · Public — anyone can post
Share and explore innovative business ideas, gain insights on initiating your venture, unravel the intricacies of 'Cost of Sale' (CoS), and decode the essentials of taxation – your nexus for entrepreneurial minds seeking to transform concepts into successful ventures.
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473,786
474K
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Published rules
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2 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/Business_Ideas's rules say about promotion
2 of 11 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Soliciting / Advertising
rule 1 of 11
You are not allowed to advertise your own product, service, blog, website, Discord instance or social media. If you have a business or offer services, you may only post them in our Weekly Free For All Thread that gets published each Sunday. If you are looking feedback on your website reach out via ModMail first. If your site requires credentials, you must provide sample credentials; you cannot expect the community to individually sign up to your site or join your waitlist.
Removal reason shown to posters: Self-Advertising without Permission
Students & those seeking financial advice
rule 4 of 11
This sub supports entrepreneurs and business owners, offering insights into business operations and marketing strategies. It's not intended for general financial/investment advice. Students: Post academic queries in our weekly Student Questions Thread, live every Sunday at 0600 GMT+0. This ensures a focused and valuable space for all business discussions.
Removal reason shown to posters: Not Business Related
The other 9
- Low-Effort Feedback Requests
- Crypto or NFT Posts
- Use the correct flair
- Be Real and Be Nice
- 'What Business Do I start?' posts
- No links to surveys
- Pay attention to u/AutoModerator
- Go easy on emojis
- Human replies only
Read from r/Business_Ideas’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/Business_Ideas — frequently asked
How many members does r/Business_Ideas have?
r/Business_Ideas has 473,786 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 22. 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_Ideas growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Business_Ideas yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 8; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/Business_Ideas?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Business_Ideas 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/Business_Ideas created?
r/Business_Ideas was founded in March 2013 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/Business_Ideas?
r/Business_Ideas publishes 11 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “Soliciting / Advertising”, says: You are not allowed to advertise your own product, service, blog, website, Discord instance or social media. If you have a business or offer services, you may only post them in our Weekly Free For All Thread that gets… 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_Ideas for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Business_Ideas 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_Ideas's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Business_Ideas'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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