r/minilab

Founded November 2017 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 15

"Honey, I shrunk the homelab". A place to ask, teach and share the joys of what can be done with modest and low-power devices on a home network. Beginner friendly!

Members

118,383

118K

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

6.8

from the last 100 posts, spanning 14.6 days

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

Sep 15

sampled Sep 15

Distinct posters

95%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 15 · 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 Sep 15 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/minilab — frequently asked

How many members does r/minilab have?

r/minilab has 118,383 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 15. 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/minilab growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/minilab yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 15; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/minilab?

Around 6.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 14.6 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/minilab created?

r/minilab was founded in November 2017 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/minilab?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 95% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 15. 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/minilab?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/minilab 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/minilab for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/minilab 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/minilab's stats?

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r/minilab Subreddit Stats — 118K members, 6.8 posts/day