r/founder
The community focused on Startup Founders
Founded January 2012 · Public — anyone can post
###r/Founder is a support network for budding and established Founders. We are in need of active mods! Please PM if you are serious about moderating and are excited about /r/founder! Remember, r/Founder is a restricted community. If you want to be a part of r/Founders simply message a mod! --- ##Please follow the r/Founder rules! 1. Restricted to **actual** founders (PM a mod to be approved) 2. Please list your company in your flair. 3. Focus on personal startup conversations: possible p
Members
77,780
78K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
57.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 41.2h
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+17%
+11K members · ≈31d
Promo tolerance
—
not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 8
sampled Oct 8
Distinct posters
94%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 24 · 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/founder
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Show & tell | 27% | 299 |
| Discussion | 24% | 89 |
| Question | 23% | 80 |
| Lessons / story | 17% | 189 |
| Promo | 6% | 40 |
| Rant | 3% | 252 |
Based on 66 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 55
- Top 10% score
- 496
- Text posts
- 49%
- Got no replies
- 23%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 20:00 UTC, Mon 12:00 UTC
What a good comment looks like here
- — Specific feedback on product features or business models
- — First-hand experience as a founder or target customer
- — Offers actionable advice or suggestions
- — Asks clarifying questions to understand the context
- — Discloses relevant professional background or affiliation
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r/founder — frequently asked
How many members does r/founder have?
r/founder has 77,780 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 8. 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/founder growing?
Over the last ≈31 days r/founder changed by +17% — a gain of 11K 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/founder?
Around 57.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 41.2h. 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/founder created?
r/founder was founded in January 2012 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/founder?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 94% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 8. 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/founder?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/founder 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/founder for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/founder 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/founder's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/founder'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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