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Best Subreddits for Indie Hackers to Promote and Market Products

This curated list includes the most effective subreddits for indie hackers and startup founders to promote and market their products. Use it to find the best niche subreddits to get in touch with customers and showcase your work to your target audience. Upvote the most effective subreddits and add your own suggestions to help other entrepreneurs succeed on Reddit!

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  1. 1r/IMadeThis

    r/IMadeThis is a subreddit where you share things that you've made yourself. This could be anything - website, sculpture, photograph, dress, music video etc. r/MadeThis has 13K members and is among the top 6% of subreddits by size.

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  2. 2r/Entrepreneur

    Subreddit description: A community of individuals who seek to solve problems, network professionally, collaborate on projects, and make the world a better place. Be professional, humble, and open to new ideas. Our community supports side hustles, small businesses, venture-backed startups, lemonade stands, 1-person-grinds, and most forms of revenue generation! However, no one cares about your blog. Please do not come here to self-promote your consulting, book, podcast, MLM, website, dropshipping guide, or $$$ scheme. r/Entrepreneur has 3.2 million members and is among the top 1% subreddits by size.

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  3. 3r/SaaS

    This subreddit is all about SaaS (Software As a Service) companies. You can bring up your product as long as it's useful and relevant to the discussion. r/SaaS has 103k members and is among the top 2% of subreddits by size.

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  4. 4r/Startup_Ideas

    Description: "Startup ideas - for inventors, entrepreneurs and investors. This subreddit is for sharing innovative startup ideas. Links and discussion about startups and descriptions of startups are welcome! Share ideas. Improve ideas. Expand upon other ideas. Combine ideas. Implement ideas." r/Startup_Ideas has 73k members and is among top 2% of all subreddits by size.

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  5. 5r/SideProject

    r/SideProject is a subreddit for sharing and receiving constructive feedback on side projects. It has 148k members and is among the top 1% of subreddits by size.

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  6. 6r/SmallBusiness

    r/SmallBusiness explicitly does not condone advertising your own products. This is how they describe themselves: This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business only. That said, if you have real questions or are able to provide value, you can probably still find some users or feedback there.

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  7. 7r/ProductHunters

    r/ProductHunters is a subreddit for discussing products listed on Product Hunt. It's a good place to write a post to accompany your PH launch. r/ProductHunters has 7.5K member and is among the top 8% of subreddits by size.

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  8. 8r/nocode

    Description: "Community dedicated to building cool things without needing to be a developer." r/nocode is ok with posting promotional posts as long as they follow the subreddit's rules. It has 30K and is among the top 4% of subreddits by size.

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  9. 9r/GrowthHacking

    Description: "Startup Growth Hacking Community. Welcome to world's largest Growth Hacking Reddit Community. A place for Growth Hacking practitioners and professionals to discuss and debate Growth Marketing. Share novel marketing experiments, new tools and startup growth marketing stories. Actively moderated by Rohan Chaubey." r/GrowthHacking has 45K members and is among the 3% of subreddits by size.

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  10. 10r/startups

    r/startups is a subreddit for everything related to startups. Here is how they describe themselves: The community for ventures designed to scale rapidly. Welcome to /r/startups, the place to discuss startup problems and solutions. Startups are companies that are designed to grow and scale rapidly. r/startups has 1.6 million members and is among the top 1% of subreddits by size.

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  11. 11r/alphaandbetausers

    Description: "Our innovators need people to use their products to give them feedback! It is hard enough to develop a product. Let's make it easier for them to recruit the critical early users that they need to tell them how to make their products better." r/alphaandbetausers has 14K members and is among the top 6% of subreddits by size.

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  12. 12r/advancedentrepreneur

    Advanced Entrepreneur is a community for established entrepreneurs to share tips, tricks, and fundamentals on growing your business to the next level. It has over 40k members and is among top 3% of all subreddits by size.

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  13. 13r/InternetIsBeautiful

    r/InternetIsBeautiful is a large subreddit with over 17 million members. This subreddit is all about websites and everything internet so it's a great place to share your unique web project.

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  14. 14r/NicheWebsites

    Description: "Information and discussions related to building and monetising niche websites/blogs. We discuss and share information on how to build the best content and get organic traffic from Google, SEO, blog monetisation, display ads, Amazon affiliate marketing." r/NicheWebsites has 1.8K members and is among top 16% of subreddits by size.

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  15. 15r/webdev

    r/webdev is community dedicated to all things web development: both front-end and back-end. This subreddit has 2.1M and is within the top 1% of subreddits by size.

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  16. 16r/somethingimade

    If you made something original, you can post it on this subreddit. It's fairly big, with 2.9M members so you can potentially get lots of exposure. This subreddit is probably not a good fit for any SaaS product but can work for some creative websites and tools. Subreddit description: Welcome to r/somethingimade, a community dedicated to showcasing and celebrating your DIY projects! Whether you're a seasoned crafter or a beginner, we encourage you to share your creations and inspire others to get creative. From woodworking to sewing, painting to cooking, and everything in between, we want to see what you've made. This subreddit is a supportive and inclusive space for all skill levels and interests, so don't be afraid to share your unique perspective and learn from others.

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