r/SideProject
r/SideProject - A community for sharing side projects
Founded January 2013 · Public — anyone can post
r/SideProject is a subreddit for sharing and receiving constructive feedback on side projects.
Members
823,956
824K
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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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+3.0%
+24K members · ≈24d
Promo tolerance
high
read the sidebar rules first
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 7 · 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 works in r/SideProject
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Show & tell | 77% | 1,097 |
| Lessons / story | 14% | 1,076 |
| Rant | 5% | 1,499 |
| Discussion | 3% | 1,060 |
| Question | 1% | 0 |
Based on 74 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 471
- Top 10% score
- 3,219
- Text posts
- 24%
- Got no replies
- 18%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 09:00 UTC, Mon 13:00 UTC
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers constructive criticism or specific feedback
- — Shares personal experiences related to the project's problem
- — Suggests improvements or alternative use cases
- — Asks clarifying questions about functionality or monetization
- — Expresses strong opinions on product features or business models (e.g., subscriptions)
- — Provides technical insights or comparisons to similar projects
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r/SideProject — frequently asked
How many members does r/SideProject have?
r/SideProject has 823,956 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 31. 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/SideProject growing?
Over the last ≈24 days r/SideProject changed by +3.0% — a gain of 24K 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/SideProject?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/SideProject 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.
When was r/SideProject created?
r/SideProject was founded in January 2013 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.
Can I promote my product in r/SideProject?
Our read on r/SideProject 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/SideProject for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/SideProject 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/SideProject's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/SideProject'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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