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r/SoloDevelopment

SoloDevelopment - game development, programming, indie developers, indie games, video games. A community for solo developers to share, learn, and support each other. Solo devs manage their entire project alone—no teams, just individual effort. Using assets, outsourcing, or working with publishers is fine, but the core development should be solo. Anyone can participate, but posts promoting non-solo projects may be removed. The goal is to keep this space focused on true solo development, so members can compare experiences fairly and get relevant advice. Founded 2020 · 151.4K members

156.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.4K upvotes, which works out to 73 per 1,000 members.

73peak upvotes per 1,000 members
156.6Kmembers
11.4Kbest post
389most comments
410posts 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.

55% 21% 8%
Video 55% Image 21% Text 8% Link 7% Gallery 6% Question 4%

The topics it labels

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

Game 248 Discussion 54 meme 29 help 22 Marketing 20 Godot 13 Unreal 12 Unity 8 Game Jam 2 Networking 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Are ya winning, devs?

↑ 11.4K 💬 314 image 2026

In my survival horror, a monster steals your left eye, splitting your POV for the rest of the game

↑ 10.6K 💬 228 image 2026

In 3 weeks I am releasing a game I made from my daughters drawings and doodles

↑ 6.3K 💬 280 video 2025

Why do shooter games always have lame flamethrowers? Am I missing something?

↑ 5.2K 💬 341 video 2025

My game got 0 wishlists in less than a month. Here's how I did it.

↑ 5.1K 💬 230 image 2026

Solo Dev vs AAA

↑ 4.3K 💬 101 image 2025

Oh no...

↑ 4.2K 💬 145 image 2026

My game just surpassed the Steam fee and has now made me 1 full REAL dollar! So happy!

↑ 3.7K 💬 114 image 2026

It's a matter of perspective

↑ 3.7K 💬 65 image 2025

Trailer for my first game Unemployment Simulator 2018

↑ 3.6K 💬 109 video 2024

Communities its size

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

r/SoloDevelopment, in numbers

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

What is r/SoloDevelopment?
r/SoloDevelopment ("SoloDevelopment - game development, programming, indie developers, indie games, video games") describes itself this way: A community for solo developers to share, learn, and support each other. Solo devs manage their entire project alone—no teams, just individual effort. Using assets, outsourcing, or working with publishers is fine, but the core development should be solo. Anyone can participate, but posts promoting non-solo projects may be removed. The goal is to keep this space focused on true solo development, so members can compare experiences fairly and get relevant advice. It was founded in 2020 and has 151.4K members.
How many members does r/SoloDevelopment have?
r/SoloDevelopment has about 156.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 410 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.4K upvotes, which is 73 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/SoloDevelopment?
"Are ya winning, devs?" reached 11.4K upvotes and 314 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/SoloDevelopment.
What subreddits are similar to r/SoloDevelopment?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/SoloDevelopment?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are video posts and 21% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/SoloDevelopment?
Across 410 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 03:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/SoloDevelopment?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/SoloDevelopment has 2.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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