r/startupideas

Startup Ideas

Founded March 2012 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Aug 29

The place to discuss about startup ideas. Share your business ideas, get feedback, and connect with other entrepreneurs.

Members

41,710

42K

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

9.1

from the last 100 posts, spanning 10.9 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

Aug 29

sampled Aug 29

Distinct posters

81%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Aug 29 · 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 Aug 29 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/startupideas — frequently asked

How many members does r/startupideas have?

r/startupideas has 41,710 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 29. 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/startupideas growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/startupideas yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 29; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/startupideas?

Around 9.1 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 10.9 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/startupideas created?

r/startupideas was founded in March 2012 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/startupideas?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 81% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Aug 29. 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/startupideas?

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

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

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