Best Subreddits to Promote a Shopify App

Shopify merchants gather in a handful of ecommerce subreddits and actively ask for app recommendations. The catch: those same subs are heavily farmed by app developers, so mods watch vendor mentions closely.

8 communities, 11.4M combined members, ranked by each subreddit's own rules.

Don't promote here

These communities ban promotion outright. Still worth being present as a genuine participant: buyers read these threads, and so do the AI models answering their questions.

r/marketing 2M members · ~2 posts/day

Promotion banned

No, you cannot promote your product in r/marketing. Rule 1, "Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam (Permanent Ban)," says, "We have a zero tolerance policy to Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam." Rule 7 also says low quality content includes "a poor attempt to shill or sell a product or service" and "a few sentences with a link to their blog," which will be removed.

r/ecommerce 661.2K members · ~11 posts/day

Promotion banned

No, you cannot promote your product in r/ecommerce. Rule 1, "No Soliciting, Promotion, or Direct Soliciting via DM," says, "Do not solicit, promote, or attempt to acquire personal or private contact with users in any way," and says violating posts or comments will be removed and users banned without warning. Rule 2 also bans external links to services, blogs, videos, courses, or websites, except for the stated site review exception.

r/shopify 366.5K members · ~13 posts/day

Promotion banned

No. The subreddit description says it is a "promotion-free sub," and Rule 4, "Soliciting, Promotion, or Direct Soliciting via DM," says "This is not the place to promote yourself or services to the members here." The sidebar and submit page also ban "spamming, content marketing, advertising, promotions, or soliciting of any kind," and Rule 6 says external links and content marketing are not allowed.

r/dropship 355.9K members · ~2 posts/day

Promotion banned

No, you cannot promote your product in r/dropship. Rule 2 says, "Do not promote your website, blog, YouTube channel, Discord server, software, agency, service, social media account, or project without moderator approval," and Rule 4 says, "r/Dropship is not a marketplace." The rules also ban referral links, affiliate links, hidden promotions, and selling products or services.

Rankings come from each subreddit's own published rules (quoted on the linked pages), not opinion. And whatever the rules allow on paper, the removal pattern everywhere is the same: batches of similar comments, reused wording, and necro-posting die. We measured it: 80% of bought Reddit comments were removed within a month.

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