r/startups
Welcome to /r/startups, the place to discuss startup problems and solutions. Startups are companies that are designed to grow and scale rapidly. Be sure to read and follow all of our rules--we have specific places for common content and requests.
Members
2,096,473
2.1M
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
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
medium
read the sidebar rules first
Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 7 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/startups — frequently asked
How many members does r/startups have?
r/startups has 2,096,473 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 7. 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/startups growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/startups yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 7; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/startups?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/startups yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the crawl accumulates more.
Can I promote my product in r/startups?
Our read on r/startups is medium promo tolerance. A product mention is fine when it genuinely answers the question asked, and unwelcome when it does not. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/startups for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/startups 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.