r/GrowthHacking
Startup Growth Hacking Community
Founded December 2012 · Public — anyone can post
Welcome to world's largest Growth Hacking Community. A place for Growth Hacking practitioners and professionals to discuss Growth Marketing. Share novel growth marketing experiments, new tools, news and startup growth marketing stories. This community is for founders and marketers who are looking to learn, share and collaborate.
Members
156,480
156K
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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Growth · 30d
+2.7%
+4.1K members · ≈33d
Published rules
11
6 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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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.
Member growth
What works in r/GrowthHacking
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 32% | 41 |
| Lessons / story | 27% | 52 |
| How-to | 15% | 78 |
| Discussion | 8% | 11 |
| Show & tell | 7% | 41 |
| Rant | 5% | 57 |
| Promo | 4% | 3 |
| Tool comparison | 1% | 1 |
Based on 74 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 14
- Top 10% score
- 88
- Text posts
- 93%
- Got no replies
- 3%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 12:00 UTC, Tue 00:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is allowed at a ratio — contribute before you post about yourself.
- No Self-Promotion: If you are sharing your blog post, product, podcast or video, make sure you have at least 100 Community Karma by engaging in the community. Low-value or low-effort posts will be deleted. Write unique summaries while sharing your blog, podcast or videos.
- SaaS Products and Tools: If you're a founder or employee or marketer of a SaaS product looking to promote your tools, seek permission from the mod.
- Link love for original and exclusive content: If you share a piece of original content, then you can link to your website or social media profile at the end of the post (one link only). This is allowed after you have 100 Community Karma.
- Seek Permission for Survey / Feedback / Beta Testing / Review: If you're asking members to participate in any Surveys / Feedback / Reviews / Beta Testing, ask permission of the moderator if you're collecting contact details of our members or asking them to DM. Also promoting your private groups / communities in the subreddit is not encouraged.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Specific, actionable advice
- — First-hand experience or data-backed insights
- — Directly addresses the OP's question or problem
- — Offers alternative perspectives or challenges assumptions
- — Constructive and detailed, often with examples
- — Acknowledges the difficulty or complexity of the topic
What r/GrowthHacking's rules say about promotion
6 of 11 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No Self-Promotion
rule 2 of 11
If you are sharing your blog post, product, podcast or video, make sure you have at least 100 Community Karma by engaging in the community. Low-value or low-effort posts will be deleted. Write unique summaries while sharing your blog, podcast or videos.
Removal reason shown to posters: Self-Promotion
SaaS Products and Tools
rule 3 of 11
If you're a founder or employee or marketer of a SaaS product looking to promote your tools, seek permission from the mod.
Removal reason shown to posters: Self-Promotion of tools
Seek Permission for Survey / Feedback / Beta Testing / Review
rule 4 of 11
If you're asking members to participate in any Surveys / Feedback / Reviews / Beta Testing, ask permission of the moderator if you're collecting contact details of our members or asking them to DM. Also promoting your private groups / communities in the subreddit is not encouraged.
We Discourage Black-hat Tactics
rule 6 of 11
Inappropriate content is automatically filtered by Reddit. We don't endorse black-hat marketing tools or tactics, if found, they will be deleted.
Stay Topical
rule 7 of 11
If posts are not oriented towards growth marketing/hacking, they will be removed.
Removal reason shown to posters: Irrelevant Content
Publish job posts under the jobs thread
rule 9 of 11
Here's the link to the job thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/comments/ozqyvn/growth_marketing_job_thread_august_2021/
Removal reason shown to posters: Job post
The other 5
- Don't Share Gated Content
- Link love for original and exclusive content
- No Crowdsourcing Ideas
- Avoid links from banned sites
- Always be kind and respectful
Read from r/GrowthHacking’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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r/GrowthHacking — frequently asked
How many members does r/GrowthHacking have?
r/GrowthHacking has 156,480 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. 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/GrowthHacking growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/GrowthHacking changed by +2.7% — a gain of 4.1K 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/GrowthHacking?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/GrowthHacking 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/GrowthHacking created?
r/GrowthHacking was founded in December 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.
Can I promote my product in r/GrowthHacking?
r/GrowthHacking publishes 11 rules and 6 of them address promotion. The first, “No Self-Promotion”, says: If you are sharing your blog post, product, podcast or video, make sure you have at least 100 Community Karma by engaging in the community. Low-value or low-effort posts will be deleted. Write unique summaries while… 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/GrowthHacking for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/GrowthHacking 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/GrowthHacking's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/GrowthHacking'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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