r/hwstartups
Hardware Startups: Solve hard problems
Founded July 2012 · Public — anyone can post
Welcome to the Hardware Startups sub-Reddit - feel free to post on anything that you think will interest anyone in the community. The idea is that we're a blend of r/DIY and r/startups content - like a Hacker News for hardware. Good ideas: hardware news, prototyping/manufacturing how-to, success stories, physical Kickstarter pages, etc. Bad ideas: General startup stuff, DIY articles without a startup angle, TC/VB/etc. link-bait, etc.
Members
40,037
40K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
2.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 37.0 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 11
sampled Oct 12
Distinct posters
93%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Oct 12 · 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 Oct 12 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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Communities that discuss what r/hwstartups discusses.
This subreddit is for sharing innovative startup ideas. Links and discussion about startups and descriptions of startups are welcome! Share ideas. Improve ideas. Expand upon other ideas. Combine ideas. Implement ideas.
This subreddit is dedicated to both amateur and professional engineers that want to build cool stuff at home, challenge themselves to learn new technologies, learn from each others' designs, and showcase their side projects.
Welcome to /r/startups, the place to discuss startup problems and solutions. Startups are companies that are designed to grow and scale rapidly. Be sure to read and follow all of our rules--we have specific places for common content and requests.
A community dedicated to sharing SaaS products, startups, indie projects, and online businesses. Whether you are launching something new, iterating on an existing product, or just looking for early feedback, this is the place to post. Founders, makers, and indie hackers are welcome to showcase what they are building, discuss growth strategies, and discover new tools from others.
A community for founders, builders, and tech enthusiasts to share startup ideas, discuss new technologies, and learn from each other. Whether you’re coding your MVP, managing a business, or exploring new tech trends, you’re welcome here. Let’s build the future together.
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r/hwstartups — frequently asked
How many members does r/hwstartups have?
r/hwstartups has 40,037 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 12. 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/hwstartups growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/hwstartups yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 12; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/hwstartups?
Around 2.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 37.0 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/hwstartups created?
r/hwstartups was founded in July 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.
Who posts in r/hwstartups?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 93% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 11. 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/hwstartups?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/hwstartups 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/hwstartups for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/hwstartups 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/hwstartups's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/hwstartups'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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