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r/canadasmallbusiness

24.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 934 upvotes, which works out to 37 per 1,000 members.

37peak upvotes per 1,000 members
24.9Kmembers
934best post
475most comments
301posts 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.

46% 26% 22%
Text 46% Question 26% Link 22% Image 3% Video 2% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Any business that doesn’t take cash deserves no business.

↑ 934 💬 475 video 2026

🚨Breaking: Canada just announced the list of counter-tariff goods

↑ 82 💬 57 text 2026

Paying myself salary vs dividends pretty much the same tax ?

↑ 55 💬 118 question 2026

Best way to pay myself from my corporation?

↑ 34 💬 35 question 2026

I never thought I'd make a post like this, but I'm running out of time.

↑ 30 💬 20 text 2026

Bench raised $113M in VC funding, had 12k customers, and shut down overnight. As a CPA, here is my read on the situation

↑ 28 💬 11 text 2026

what exactly do you do if you hurt yourself owning a small business?

↑ 26 💬 34 question 2026

Custom t shirts! Starting as low as $20/shirt! Some examples of shirts I’ve done:

↑ 24 💬 7 gallery 2026

Three quarters of active federal contracts drew one bid or none when they were last awarded. 19,308 of them expire within a year.

↑ 24 💬 13 text 2026

Heres a free tool for Canadian contractors

↑ 21 💬 18 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/canadasmallbusiness, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/canadasmallbusiness have?
r/canadasmallbusiness has about 24.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 934 upvotes, which is 37 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/canadasmallbusiness?
"Any business that doesn’t take cash deserves no business." reached 934 upvotes and 475 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/canadasmallbusiness.
What subreddits are similar to r/canadasmallbusiness?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/GhostMesh48, r/teslastockholders, r/ExploreFortMyers, r/AmericansInCanada, r/TheMirrorCult, r/CzechCoconutCommunity.
What kind of posts do best on r/canadasmallbusiness?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are text posts and 26% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/canadasmallbusiness?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (23 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (13 avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (9 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/canadasmallbusiness?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/canadasmallbusiness has 12 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 145 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/canadasmallbusiness, 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.