Reddit Self-Promotion Rules, Subreddit by Subreddit

Every community treats promotion differently, and the rules are scattered across sidebars and pinned posts. These guides quote each subreddit's own rules and answer one question: can you promote your product there without getting removed?

Promo-friendly (1)Allowed with conditions (34)Strictly limited (43)Promotion banned (31)No explicit promo rule (8)

SaaS & Startups

r/Entrepreneur

Strictly limited

5.2M members · ~9 posts/day

r/Entrepreneur is a community for people involved in side projects, small businesses, startups, and solo ventures, focused on problem-solving, networking, and sharing entrepreneurial insights.

r/smallbusiness

Strictly limited

2.5M members · ~70 posts/day

r/smallbusiness is a question-and-answer subreddit for people asking about starting, owning, and growing a small business.

r/digitalnomad

Promotion banned

2.4M members · ~19 posts/day

r/digitalnomad is a large community for people who use technology to work remotely and live an independent, nomadic lifestyle.

r/startups

Strictly limited

2.1M members · ~9 posts/day

r/startups is a discussion community for people working on or learning about startups, companies designed to grow and scale rapidly, across different backgrounds and experience levels.

r/SideProject

Promo-friendly

787.5K members · ~270 posts/day

r/SideProject is a community for people sharing side projects, getting constructive feedback, and finding inspiration for new projects.

r/SaaS

Strictly limited

762.2K members · ~103 posts/day

r/SaaS is a community for discussions and useful links for SaaS owners, online business owners, and more.

r/EntrepreneurRideAlong

No explicit promo rule

714.7K members · ~16 posts/day

r/EntrepreneurRideAlong is a community for following and sharing transparent, real-time company-building journeys, aimed at founders and people interested in watching entrepreneurship unfold.

r/Business_Ideas

Allowed with conditions

461.8K members · ~4 posts/day

r/Business_Ideas is a large subreddit for entrepreneurs and business-minded people to share business ideas, get feedback, find partners, and discuss starting and running ventures.

r/startup

Promotion banned

311.2K members · ~3 posts/day

r/startup is Reddit's startup community, a space for people building and learning about startups to exchange knowledge and ideas and support each other.

r/sweatystartup

Strictly limited

207.8K members · ~1 posts/day

r/sweatystartup is a community for entrepreneurs focused on regular old fashioned, service based, sweaty businesses, with 207768 members.

r/microsaas

Allowed with conditions

205.9K members · ~29 posts/day

r/microsaas is a community about Micro SaaS businesses run by very small teams, for people sharing and discussing micro SaaS apps.

r/ycombinator

Promotion banned

197.7K members · ~2 posts/day

r/ycombinator is a community for news and discussion around startups and applying to Y Combinator, aimed at people discussing YC and YC-related news.

r/indiehackers

Allowed with conditions

183.9K members · ~3 posts/day

r/indiehackers is a subreddit for people building bootstrap products and trying to succeed as independent developers.

r/growmybusiness

Strictly limited

141.9K members · ~11 posts/day

r/growmybusiness is a community for people seeking and sharing creative advice and strategies for business growth.

r/buildinpublic

Allowed with conditions

110.2K members · ~119 posts/day

r/buildinpublic is a community for creators, developers, entrepreneurs, and makers to openly share their journey, products, and side hustles while building in public.

r/kickstarter

Allowed with conditions

104.4K members · ~27 posts/day

r/kickstarter is a subreddit for crowd funding content, aimed at project creators and backers who want to talk about Kickstarter and related campaigns.

r/venturecapital

No explicit promo rule

83.4K members · ~1 posts/day

r/venturecapital is for venture capital news and articles, aimed at the VC industry and related early-stage investors.

r/advancedentrepreneur

Promotion banned

77.6K members · ~2 posts/day

r/advancedentrepreneur is a community for established entrepreneurs to share tips, tricks, and fundamentals on growing a business to the next level.

r/Solopreneur

Allowed with conditions

72K members · ~1 posts/day

r/Solopreneur is a community for aspiring, new, and established solopreneurs to share advice, experiences, resources, and questions about entrepreneurship.

r/alphaandbetausers

Allowed with conditions

40.1K members · ~86 posts/day

r/alphaandbetausers is a community for innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs to recruit alpha and beta users to test apps or websites and give feedback.

r/roastmystartup

Allowed with conditions

33.1K members · ~8 posts/day

r/roastmystartup is a community of 33,098 people where you post your own startup or startup idea so other entrepreneurs can roast it harshly and, ideally, usefully.

Marketing & Growth

r/socialmedia

Strictly limited

2.1M members · ~12 posts/day

r/socialmedia is a large subreddit for professional discussion about social media, aimed at people who work with social media professionally.

r/marketing

Promotion banned

2M members · ~2 posts/day

r/marketing is a community for marketing communications and advertising industry professionals to discuss marketing topics and ask questions, including people at brands, businesses, agencies, vendors, and academia.

r/SEO

Promotion banned

499.1K members · ~11 posts/day

r/SEO is a large subreddit for SEO news, case studies, speculation, questions, and experiences, aimed at site owners, people who manage SEO, and others interested in SEO.

r/digital_marketing

Strictly limited

365.6K members · ~10 posts/day

r/digital_marketing is a community for digital marketing news, best practices, strategy, and learning.

r/SocialMediaMarketing

Allowed with conditions

303.8K members · ~11 posts/day

r/SocialMediaMarketing is a community for SMM professionals to share industry-relevant information, discuss best practices, and provide constructive critique.

r/Affiliatemarketing

Strictly limited

286.1K members · ~2 posts/day

r/Affiliatemarketing is a public community for people discussing affiliate marketing, paid traffic, SEO, email marketing, and related topics.

r/PPC

Strictly limited

274.9K members · ~8 posts/day

r/PPC is a large subreddit for discussing pay-per-click and digital advertising topics like Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon Ads.

r/copywriting

Allowed with conditions

259.2K members · ~4 posts/day

r/copywriting is a 259,238-member subreddit for learning, discussing, critiquing, and sharing resources about advertising copy, by copywriters, for copywriters.

r/FacebookAds

Strictly limited

254K members · ~32 posts/day

r/FacebookAds is a community for people discussing best practices and strategies for running Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns.

r/advertising

Promotion banned

251.5K members · ~6 posts/day

r/advertising is for ad creators, students, copywriters, affiliates, and other people discussing the advertising industry for professional reasons.

r/content_marketing

Strictly limited

197.1K members · ~7 posts/day

r/content_marketing is a community of content marketers who share feedback, advice, resources, and insights about content marketing.

r/juststart

Promotion banned

179.4K members · ~0 posts/day

r/juststart is a community about affiliate marketing, SEO, and related topics, where beginners and experts share real experiences and discuss what works.

r/AskMarketing

Strictly limited

157.9K members · ~23 posts/day

r/AskMarketing is a subreddit for asking real marketing questions, aimed at people seeking answers from marketing professionals.

r/GrowthHacking

Allowed with conditions

151K members · ~12 posts/day

r/GrowthHacking is a community for founders, marketers, and growth hacking practitioners to discuss growth marketing, share experiments, tools, news, and startup growth stories.

r/bigseo

Promotion banned

138.3K members · ~1 posts/day

r/bigseo is a community for professional agency, in-house, and self-employed SEOs to discuss strategy, share ideas and case studies, and learn.

r/influencermarketing

No explicit promo rule

135.5K members · ~13 posts/day

r/influencermarketing is a community for people discussing influencer marketing, including brands and social media creators, focused on learning how to work with creators on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and blogs.

r/Emailmarketing

Allowed with conditions

121K members · ~3 posts/day

r/Emailmarketing is a community for email marketing professionals to discuss permission-based email marketing.

r/musicmarketing

Promotion banned

107.6K members · ~10 posts/day

r/musicmarketing is a subreddit for musicians, creators, promoters, and other music lovers to discuss music marketing, online and digital promotion, tools, resources, and the music business.

r/branding

Strictly limited

87.3K members · ~9 posts/day

r/branding is a community for people discussing branding, including engaging applications, case studies, management techniques, and growing your brand.

r/UGCcreators

Strictly limited

77.5K members · ~18 posts/day

r/UGCcreators is a community for UGC creators to connect, collaborate, and grow, with brands and agencies also allowed to post opportunities under the subreddit rules.

r/TechSEO

Strictly limited

56.6K members · ~4 posts/day

r/TechSEO is a subreddit for the technical, nerdy side of SEO, with members interested in technical SEO discussion.

r/adwords

No explicit promo rule

25.5K members · ~2 posts/day

r/adwords is a subreddit for discussion about Google AdWords, now Google Ads, and it includes people interested in PPC search engine marketing.

Ecommerce

r/ecommerce

Promotion banned

661.2K members · ~11 posts/day

r/ecommerce is a community for people interested in the design and implementation of ecommerce sites, including seasoned retailers and newcomers seeking guidance on selling online.

r/shopify

Promotion banned

366.5K members · ~13 posts/day

r/shopify is a forum for people seeking or sharing Shopify-specific information, especially store owners discussing issues unique to the Shopify platform.

r/dropship

Promotion banned

355.9K members · ~2 posts/day

r/dropship is a community for entrepreneurs to discuss the dropshipping business model, share resources, solve problems, and have serious discussions about common challenges.

r/Etsy

Strictly limited

314.7K members · ~15 posts/day

r/Etsy is an unofficial community for all things Etsy, with both buyers and sellers welcome.

r/dropshipping

Allowed with conditions

274.6K members · ~35 posts/day

r/dropshipping is a 274,608-member subreddit for people discussing dropshipping, including tips, strategies, and questions.

r/EtsySellers

Strictly limited

247.8K members · ~26 posts/day

r/EtsySellers is a subreddit for Etsy sellers to collaborate and discuss techniques and experiences selling their products and building their stores.

r/FulfillmentByAmazon

Strictly limited

141.8K members · ~5 posts/day

r/FulfillmentByAmazon is for mid to high level discussion about selling on Amazon and using FBA, with a community focused on intermediate to advanced sellers.

r/AmazonSeller

Strictly limited

96.4K members · ~1 posts/day

r/AmazonSeller is a subreddit for entrepreneurs discussing selling on Amazon, including Seller Central, Vendor Central, FBA, and FBM.

r/printondemand

Allowed with conditions

52.6K members · ~7 posts/day

r/printondemand is a community for people interested in print on demand to talk, get help, request critique, and share tips, advice, ideas, and inspiration.

Dev & Tech

r/programming

Strictly limited

6.9M members · ~7 posts/day

r/programming is a large subreddit for discussion and news about computer programming, aimed at people interested in programming topics.

r/learnprogramming

Strictly limited

4.4M members · ~20 posts/day

r/learnprogramming is a large English-only subreddit for questions about learning programming in any programming language.

r/webdev

Strictly limited

3.3M members · ~114 posts/day

r/webdev is a community for web developers covering both front-end and back-end web development.

r/javascript

Allowed with conditions

2.4M members · ~5 posts/day

r/javascript is a large community for talking about JavaScript and JavaScript-related projects, including TypeScript.

r/gamedev

Strictly limited

2M members · ~51 posts/day

r/gamedev is a large community for people making games to discuss programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, marketing, and industry experience.

r/Python

Allowed with conditions

1.5M members · ~4 posts/day

r/Python is a large Reddit community for news, packages, and meta information about the Python programming language, and it directs how-to questions to r/LearnPython.

r/selfhosted

Allowed with conditions

806.7K members · ~46 posts/day

r/selfhosted is a large community for sharing, discussing, discovering, assisting with, and critiquing self-hosted alternatives to popular web apps, services, and online tools.

r/coding

Strictly limited

643K members · ~4 posts/day

r/coding is a programming discussion community for people who want programming-focused content, with a strict policy of programming-related discussions.

r/reactjs

Allowed with conditions

509.5K members · ~7 posts/day

r/reactjs is a 509,544 member community for discussing, learning, and developing web applications using React and its ecosystem.

r/devops

Allowed with conditions

503.4K members · ~8 posts/day

r/devops is a subreddit for people discussing the DevOps movement, including technologies, meetups, conferences, and building the future of IT systems.

r/IndieDev

No explicit promo rule

422.1K members · ~250 posts/day

r/IndieDev is a casual, community-run subreddit for indie devs and gamers to share indie game development, favorite games, and cool images, GIFs, and music.

r/opensource

Allowed with conditions

370.7K members · ~7 posts/day

r/opensource is a public subreddit for everything open source related, aimed at people interested in open source projects, discussion, news, and community activity.

r/node

No explicit promo rule

346.7K members · ~3 posts/day

r/node is an unofficial Node.js subreddit for people discussing Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and anything else in the Node.js ecosystem.

r/androiddev

Promotion banned

289.4K members · ~9 posts/day

r/androiddev is a community for Android app developers focused on news, articles, talks, tools, libraries, and open source related to native Android development.

r/iOSProgramming

Allowed with conditions

201.8K members · ~6 posts/day

r/iOSProgramming is a subreddit for people discussing and sharing articles, code samples, open source projects, and other topics related to developing for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.

r/PHP

Allowed with conditions

199.9K members · ~5 posts/day

r/PHP is a public subreddit for sharing and discovering the latest news about the PHP ecosystem and its community, with 199947 members.

r/django

Allowed with conditions

164.5K members · ~4 posts/day

r/django is a community for news, links, and discussion relevant to Django web development and the Django community.

r/vuejs

Allowed with conditions

134K members · ~2 posts/day

r/vuejs is a community for people learning and developing web applications with Vue.js, where you can share what you're learning or building, link an article, and ask for help.

r/laravel

Allowed with conditions

109.8K members · ~2 posts/day

r/laravel is a community about the Laravel PHP framework and its ecosystem, for people interested in discussing Laravel, sharing resources, and following related news.

AI

r/ChatGPT

Allowed with conditions

11.6M members · ~272 posts/day

r/ChatGPT is a public subreddit with 11,576,540 members for discussing ChatGPT and AI, and it is not affiliated with OpenAI.

r/MachineLearning

Strictly limited

3.1M members · ~7 posts/day

r/MachineLearning is a large machine learning community with 3,061,864 members, aimed at technical ML content while directing beginners to /r/mlquestions or /r/learnmachinelearning and career questions to /r/cscareerquestions.

r/OpenAI

Allowed with conditions

2.8M members · ~82 posts/day

r/OpenAI is an unofficial community about OpenAI and AI discussion, with 2,821,316 members.

r/ArtificialInteligence

Strictly limited

1.9M members · ~32 posts/day

r/ArtificialInteligence is a large public AI community focused on high-signal discussion, quality content, and verified expertise, and it is open to everyone.

r/artificial

Strictly limited

1.3M members · ~25 posts/day

r/artificial is Reddit’s home for Artificial Intelligence, a large community focused on AI, its applications, and related discussion.

r/ClaudeAI

Allowed with conditions

1M members · ~214 posts/day

r/ClaudeAI is a public discussion subreddit for people using or evaluating Claude and Claude Code, and it says Anthropic does not control or operate it.

r/StableDiffusion

Allowed with conditions

981.5K members · ~32 posts/day

r/StableDiffusion is an unofficial community for people interested in open-source or local AI image generation, where you can post art, ask questions, discuss ideas, and share related tech.

r/LocalLLaMA

Allowed with conditions

784.3K members · ~65 posts/day

r/LocalLLaMA is a subreddit for people discussing Llama and locally hostable AI, with 784281 members.

r/AI_Agents

Allowed with conditions

407.7K members · ~47 posts/day

r/AI_Agents is a community for discussion about AI Agents and related tools, for people interested in LLMs that can use tools or execute functions autonomously or with human oversight.

r/PromptEngineering

No explicit promo rule

401.6K members · ~17 posts/day

r/PromptEngineering is a community about applying engineering practices to developing prompts for generative models like GPT or Midjourney, and it has about 401,550 members.

Creator Economy

r/Twitch

Strictly limited

2.9M members · ~16 posts/day

r/Twitch is an unofficial community for discussions about Twitch.tv, with 2,883,401 members.

r/Instagram

Strictly limited

1.1M members · ~81 posts/day

r/Instagram is an unofficial subreddit for Instagram users to discuss Instagram, share Instagram photos, ask questions, and get feedback on their accounts.

r/NewTubers

Strictly limited

709.6K members · ~84 posts/day

r/NewTubers is a discussion-first community for up-and-coming YouTube creators and Twitch streamers to improve through resources, critiques, feedback, and cooperation.

r/InstagramMarketing

Promotion banned

370.3K members · ~23 posts/day

r/InstagramMarketing is a 370,252-member subreddit for people discussing Instagram marketing, including both White Hat and Black Hat ideas, questions, and related discussion.

r/youtubers

Strictly limited

340.7K members · ~1 posts/day

r/YouTubers is a community for established YouTube creators who are already making content and want to improve their channels, strategy, and craft.

r/Blogging

Promotion banned

201.5K members · ~5 posts/day

r/Blogging is a community for bloggers to connect, ask for help, seek advice, and share experiences and knowledge about blogging.

r/podcasting

Strictly limited

188.2K members · ~9 posts/day

r/podcasting is a subreddit for people who make podcasts, where members discuss podcasting news, how-to topics, gear, marketing, and related issues.

r/YouTube_startups

No explicit promo rule

151.9K members · ~36 posts/day

r/YouTube_startups is a community for new or young YouTube channels to get a good start, meet fellow YouTubers, and help each other out.

r/GetMoreViewsYT

Allowed with conditions

127.6K members · ~31 posts/day

r/GetMoreViewsYT is a subreddit for smaller YouTube creators to get feedback, tips, discussion, collaboration, and help growing their channels.

Business & Freelance

r/WorkOnline

Promotion banned

758.5K members · ~1 posts/day

r/WorkOnline is a community for people discussing ways to make at least minimum wage online, including random jobs, remote work, online employers, paid sites, and website monetization.

r/freelance

Promotion banned

687.8K members · ~1 posts/day

r/freelance is a subreddit for freelancers and people who want to become one, with 687844 members.

r/sales

Promotion banned

591.8K members · ~12 posts/day

r/sales is a large community for sales professionals and learners to discuss sales, selling, business development, lead generation, prospecting, closing, and related topics.

r/remotework

Strictly limited

588.1K members · ~4 posts/day

r/remotework is a large community for discussing remote work as a whole, and it is explicitly not a job board.

r/consulting

Promotion banned

377.1K members · ~1 posts/day

r/consulting is a Reddit community for current and former consultants, plus others interested in consulting across industries.

r/Upwork

Strictly limited

190.5K members · ~21 posts/day

r/Upwork is an independent, unofficial subreddit for Upwork clients and freelancers to discuss Upwork-related matters.

r/b2bmarketing

Promotion banned

96.2K members · ~7 posts/day

r/b2bmarketing is a subreddit for professional discussion, news, questions, and trends in B2B marketing.

r/agency

Promotion banned

95.7K members · ~1 posts/day

r/agency is a community for agency owners, freelancers, and other professionals working in PPC, SEO, digital, and creative agencies in the digital marketing space.

r/Fiverr

Promotion banned

77.5K members · ~2 posts/day

r/Fiverr is an unofficial subreddit for Fiverr buyers and sellers to discuss the platform, share experiences, give advice, and ask for help.

r/salestechniques

Promotion banned

65K members · ~3 posts/day

r/salestechniques is a community for people sharing sales techniques and sales process advice that can improve selling and close rates.

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