r/forhire
redditors for hire
Founded May 2009 · Public — anyone can post
Some redditors are skilled professionals, some redditors need skilled professionals. Scroll down for general information and our rules. Please read through these carefully, as breaking them can be a bannable offense.
Members
676,861
677K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Published rules
11
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 27 · 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 works in r/forhire
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion | 74% | 42 |
| Promo | 23% | 4 |
| Rant | 1% | 61 |
| Question | 1% | 1 |
Based on 73 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 13
- Top 10% score
- 74
- Text posts
- 100%
- Got no replies
- 0%
- Busiest windows
- Tue 21:00 UTC, Wed 14:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is allowed at a ratio — contribute before you post about yourself. Promotion goes in N/A (N/A).
- 7 days rule: Do not post more than once per 7 days unless your [Hiring] ad is for a different position. Only 1 [For Hire] post per 7 days.
- Personal Info: Do not include any personal info in posts or comments. Interested parties will PM you, please share all private details like emails and phone numbers over PM Do not use personal stories as a leverage to get hired
- PM sent: Apply by PM or other private communication channels, not in comments. Do not leave comments to say that you sent private communication or to request that anyone contact you privately. Comments are for public discussion.
- B2B: No B2B. The intent of the subreddit is connecting freelancers to gigs, not companies to clients
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific skills and tools relevant to the job post
- — Provides a portfolio or examples of past work
- — Demonstrates understanding of the client's needs
- — Asks clarifying questions to show engagement and thoroughness
- — Highlights experience in related fields
- — Mentions specific software or platforms used
What r/forhire's rules say about promotion
1 of 11 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Affiliate/Job board link
rule 8 of 11
We do not allow affiliate links (= referral links) or links to job boards.
The other 10
- 7 days rule
- Personal Info
- Payment
- Illegal
- Low Quality
- PM sent
- B2B
- Portfolio/Resume
- Email Bot
- Intangible or Metaphysical Services
Read from r/forhire’s published rules on Sep 13. 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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Some redditors are skilled professionals, some redditors need skilled professionals. Scroll down for general information and our rules. Please read through these carefully, as breaking them is a bannable offense.
The hub for freelance hiring. Actively moderated to filter out the noise, spam, and fraud found elsewhere. High-quality posts for serious professionals only.
Articles of interest for freelancers and people who want to become one. Violating the rules (https://old.reddit.com/r/freelance/about/rules) will cause your post/comment will be removed and you will be banned permanently.
Rules: --- 1. No self-advertisement unless the thread is requesting services or flaired "*Requesting Services.*" 1. No direct links to your freelance profile or money app, not even in threads flaired "*Offering Services.*" 1. No affiliate or shortened urls. 1. Remain civil, no stalking, trolling, threatening, abusive language, or racism will be tolerated. ---
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/forhire — frequently asked
How many members does r/forhire have?
r/forhire has 676,861 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 10. 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/forhire growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/forhire yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 27; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/forhire?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/forhire 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/forhire created?
r/forhire was founded in May 2009 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/forhire?
r/forhire publishes 11 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Affiliate/Job board link”, says: We do not allow affiliate links (= referral links) or links to job boards. 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/forhire for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/forhire 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/forhire's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/forhire'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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