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r/IndieDev

435.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37K upvotes, which works out to 85 per 1,000 members.

85peak upvotes per 1,000 members
435.4Kmembers
37Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
101posts 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.

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Image 53% Video 41% Gallery 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Image 18 Video 12 Discussion 11 Feedback? 9 Meta 4 New Game! 2 GIF 2 Informative 2 Artist looking for Indies! 2 Review 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Taking sandbox game quite literally with Sandcastle

↑ 37K 💬 895 video 2026

First time showing gameplay of my mobile game to someone besides my friends. What do you think?

↑ 22.4K 💬 1.4K video 2025

A Camera Game - Looking For Playtesters : D

↑ 16.6K 💬 631 video 2025

This pisses me off

↑ 14.7K 💬 1.3K image 2025

We wanted to add "fast travel" to our game, but keep it contextual and maintain a sense of place. So we took a very literal approach:

↑ 13.6K 💬 639 video 2024

I improved my crash site based on feedback

↑ 13.1K 💬 316 image 2026

I got tired of manually animating something in my game so I made this...

↑ 12.5K 💬 190 video 2025

I added hand-tracking to my MR Rollercoaster game, CoasterMania! What you think?

↑ 12.2K 💬 311 video 2026

It appears someone other than us 4 devs has played our game

↑ 11.9K 💬 136 image 2026

They called me a madman for making this game. They said it was outdated, old. But I did it. I had to. I don’t need to prove them wrong, I just need t…

↑ 11.2K 💬 773 video 2025

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/IndieDev, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.