r/freelance
Founded April 2008 · Public — anyone can post
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.
Members
703,427
703K
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Growth · 30d
+0.8%
+5.4K members · ≈36d
Published rules
9
3 mention promotion — quoted below
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Tracking since Aug 7 · 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/freelance's rules say about promotion
3 of 9 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No hiring or soliciting work
rule 1 of 9
Use /r/forhire to look for work or to find freelancers. This includes companies or individuals looking for freelancers, freelancers looking for work, or freelancers looking for partners or collaborators. Note that responding to posts or comments violating this rule or asking people to send you a private message are also violations of the rule.
No advertising or self-promotion
rule 2 of 9
**Examples** of prohibited content include: - your app or SaaS - your website or portfolio - your profile on a freelance site - a blog post you wrote - a article that mentions your company - your mailing list or newsletter - a Slack group, IRC channel, or other external chat - a book you wrote - a course you teach - a code repository for a project that you created - a video you made or appear in - any other external resource that you benefit from or are affiliated with
No soliciting private messaging
rule 4 of 9
Do not ask people to send you a private message or if you can send them a message. Do not comment that you have sent them a message.
Removal reason shown to posters: Soliciting private messaging
The other 6
- No surveys or market research questions
- No referral URLs or shortened links
- No offtopic posts or comments
- No bots or automated users
- Follow Reddiquette
- No duplicate posts
Read from r/freelance’s published rules on Mar 12. 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/freelance — frequently asked
How many members does r/freelance have?
r/freelance has 703,427 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 19. 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/freelance growing?
Over the last ≈36 days r/freelance changed by +0.8% — a gain of 5.4K 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/freelance?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/freelance 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/freelance created?
r/freelance was founded in April 2008 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/freelance?
r/freelance publishes 9 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “No hiring or soliciting work”, says: Use /r/forhire to look for work or to find freelancers. This includes companies or individuals looking for freelancers, freelancers looking for work, or freelancers looking for partners or collaborators. Note that… 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/freelance for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/freelance 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/freelance's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/freelance'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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