r/handyman
A community for handymen, DIYers, and anyone sharing advice on repairs, maintenance, and projects
Members
149,120
149K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
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
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 22 · 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 Aug 22 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/handyman — frequently asked
How many members does r/handyman have?
r/handyman has 149,120 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 22. 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/handyman growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/handyman yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 22; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/handyman?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/handyman 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.
Can I promote my product in r/handyman?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/handyman 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/handyman for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/handyman 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/handyman's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/handyman'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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