r/indiehackers
Independent developers building their own way
Founded September 2016 · Public — anyone can post
IndieHackers is a subreddit focused on people who bootstrap their way to success by building products.
Members
193,130
193K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
1.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 58.1 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+3.1%
+5.8K members · ≈36d
Published rules
3
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Sep 17
sampled Sep 19
Distinct posters
57%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 1 · 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 r/indiehackers's rules say about promotion
1 of 3 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Self Promotion
rule 1 of 3
Users can self promote their product 1 time using the SHOW IH flare. The purpose is for feedback and critique not advertisement.
The other 2
- MRR
- What you build type thing
Read from r/indiehackers’s published rules on May 28. 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/indiehackers — frequently asked
How many members does r/indiehackers have?
r/indiehackers has 193,130 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 19. 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/indiehackers growing?
Over the last ≈36 days r/indiehackers changed by +3.1% — a gain of 5.8K 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/indiehackers?
Around 1.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 58.1 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/indiehackers created?
r/indiehackers was founded in September 2016 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/indiehackers?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 57% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 17. 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/indiehackers?
r/indiehackers publishes 3 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Self Promotion”, says: Users can self promote their product 1 time using the SHOW IH flare. The purpose is for feedback and critique not advertisement. 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/indiehackers for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/indiehackers 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/indiehackers's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/indiehackers'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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