r/homelab
Welcome to your friendly /r/homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc.
Members
1,072,718
1.1M
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
high
read the sidebar rules first
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 18 · 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 18 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/homelab — frequently asked
How many members does r/homelab have?
r/homelab has 1,072,718 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 18. 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/homelab growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/homelab yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 18; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/homelab?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/homelab 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/homelab?
Our read on r/homelab is high promo tolerance. It has a promo-friendly culture or a dedicated thread, but that still means being useful first. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/homelab for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/homelab 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/homelab's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/homelab'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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