r/sweatystartup
Founded February 2019 · Public — anyone can post
A hub for entrepreneurs of regular old fashioned businesses.
Members
210,589
211K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.0%
+2.1K members · ≈33d
Published rules
7
0 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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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
r/sweatystartup's published rules
None of r/sweatystartup's 7 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. That is not the same as promotion being welcome — read the rules below and the sidebar before posting.
All 7
- Be ready to answer follow up questions.
- Stay on topic.
- No blatant self plugging.
- The business must be sweaty
- Bragging/clickbait
- No software or websites posts or comments
- No politics
Read from r/sweatystartup’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 community for founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and startup enthusiasts to connect, share insights, and find practical advice.
This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business only.
Post your start-up (or start-up idea) for other entrepreneurs to roast it. We won't hold back punches.
**The subreddit for Entrepreneurs** * Ask Questions * Post articles * Discuss business ideas * Get mentoring help -- **Related Subreddits** * /r/smallbusiness * /r/startups * /r/Bookkeeping * /r/growmybusiness
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r/sweatystartup — frequently asked
How many members does r/sweatystartup have?
r/sweatystartup has 210,589 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 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/sweatystartup growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/sweatystartup changed by +1.0% — a gain of 2.1K 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/sweatystartup?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/sweatystartup 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/sweatystartup created?
r/sweatystartup was founded in February 2019 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/sweatystartup?
None of r/sweatystartup's 7 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. That is not permission: read the rules and the sidebar, contribute first, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/sweatystartup for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/sweatystartup 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/sweatystartup's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/sweatystartup'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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