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r/automation

229.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.9K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
229.5Kmembers
1.9Kbest post
554most comments
200posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 27% 17% 9%
Text 45% Question 27% Image 17% Link 9% Gallery 3% Video 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I automated an instagram account on full autopilot. Here are the results

↑ 1.9K πŸ’¬ 554 image 2025

Accidentally killed 90% of a finance team’s manual work with a weekend AI hack πŸ˜…

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 466 text 2025

Made a small tool to automate a boring repetitive task. Apparently, boring sells.

↑ 979 πŸ’¬ 110 text 2025

I’m obsessed with automation – if you need help, I’m offering it for free

↑ 771 πŸ’¬ 267 text 2025

Automated a 5-hour weekly report. My boss thinks I'm a wizard and it saved my team $20k/year.

↑ 753 πŸ’¬ 162 text 2025

If you're trying to learn AI automation, stop collecting courses and start doing this instead

↑ 740 πŸ’¬ 124 text 2025

I automated most of my freelance workflow with n8n + ChatGPT. AMA (No Code)

↑ 728 πŸ’¬ 116 text 2025

Built This Automation for a Client and Now Make $1K/Month from It

↑ 717 πŸ’¬ 117 image 2025

Accidentally saved a client ~$30k a year just by watching how they actually worked

↑ 716 πŸ’¬ 97 text 2025

A fake company run by AI showed how far we are from replacing humans

↑ 687 πŸ’¬ 153 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/automation, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.