r/startup
Reddit's Startup Community
Founded May 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Reddit's space to learn the tools and skills necessary to build a successful startup. A community meant to support each other and grow through the exchange of knowledge and ideas. A rising tide lifts all ships in its wake.
Members
319,813
320K
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
+1.9%
+6K members · ≈33d
Published rules
3
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 8 · 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/startup'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.
No spam. No Solicitations
rule 2 of 3
No spam meant to drive traffic off-site. No solicitation/
Removal reason shown to posters: No spam. No Solicitations, except for business services.
The other 2
- Posts must be relevant
- Self posts only (Enforced)
Read from r/startup’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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A sub-reddit for sharing and talking about resources for startups.
A community for founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and startup enthusiasts to connect, share insights, and find practical advice.
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.
A curated list of Youtube videos to help you build, launch and grow your startup/business. Get involved in the comment section!
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/startup — frequently asked
How many members does r/startup have?
r/startup has 319,813 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. 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/startup growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/startup changed by +1.9% — a gain of 6K 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/startup?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/startup 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/startup created?
r/startup was founded in May 2008 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/startup?
r/startup publishes 3 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No spam. No Solicitations”, says: No spam meant to drive traffic off-site. No solicitation/ 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/startup for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/startup 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/startup's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/startup'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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