r/software
Anything software-related. Please follow our rules to avoid getting punished.
Members
369,692
370K
Posts per day
3.0
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
high
read the sidebar rules first
Tracking since Aug 10 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 10 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/software — frequently asked
How many members does r/software have?
r/software has 369,692 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 10. 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/software growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/software yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 10; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/software?
Around 3.0 posts per day. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
Can I promote my product in r/software?
Our read on r/software 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/software for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/software 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.