r/Freelancers
Founded October 2009 · Public — anyone can post
A place for all-things freelance! Issues with your client? Ideas for new projects? Web development ideas? This is the spot!
Members
69,997
70K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
13.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 7.2 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 20
sampled Oct 20
Distinct posters
95%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 13 · 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
Tracking since Sep 13 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/Freelancers — frequently asked
How many members does r/Freelancers have?
r/Freelancers has 69,997 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 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/Freelancers growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Freelancers yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 13; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/Freelancers?
Around 13.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 7.2 days. 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/Freelancers created?
r/Freelancers was founded in October 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.
Who posts in r/Freelancers?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 95% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 20. 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/Freelancers?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Freelancers 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/Freelancers for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Freelancers 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/Freelancers's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Freelancers'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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