r/Businessideas

Business Ideas

Founded March 2010 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 13

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.

Members

52,404

52K

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Growth · 7d

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Growth · 30d

+5.9%

+2.9K members · ≈34d

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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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r/Businessideas — frequently asked

How many members does r/Businessideas have?

r/Businessideas has 52,404 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. 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/Businessideas growing?

Over the last ≈34 days r/Businessideas changed by +5.9% — a gain of 2.9K 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/Businessideas?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Businessideas 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/Businessideas created?

r/Businessideas was founded in March 2010 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/Businessideas?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Businessideas 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/Businessideas for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Businessideas 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/Businessideas's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Businessideas'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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