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r/StartUpIndia

Startup Space For Indians. Startup Community For Indians Founded 2015 · 448.7K members

450.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.7K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
450.4Kmembers
9.7Kbest post
632most comments
260posts 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% 26% 15% 10%
Text 45% Image 26% Question 15% Video 10% Gallery 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.

Discussion :discuss: 19 Vent & Rant 18 Memes & Shitpost :shit: 16 Vent & Rant :vent: 14 Discussion 13 Memes & Shitpost 5 News :news: 2 General :general: 2 News 2 Analysis 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Shark tank india trolling CEOs

↑ 9.7K 💬 208 video 2025

Piyush Goel: I am a semiconductor startup founder. Here is my rant in response to your rant during startup Mahakumbh!

↑ 8.1K 💬 522 text 2025

Toxic work culture ft. Zepto

↑ 7.9K 💬 432 text 2024

Are they really self made

↑ 7.9K 💬 632 image 2024

Amazon will eat your business

↑ 6.6K 💬 589 gallery 2024

Bhavesh won't do this because it's "western culture"

↑ 6.2K 💬 157 image 2024

Respected Goyal Sahab

↑ 5.4K 💬 129 image 2025

Zepto gets a taste of its own medicine 😂🤭

↑ 4.8K 💬 48 image 2025

Galgotias University 🤣🤣🤣🤣

↑ 4.7K 💬 286 image 2026

Toxic Work Culture at upGrad

↑ 3.9K 💬 194 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/StartUpIndia, in numbers

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

What is r/StartUpIndia?
r/StartUpIndia ("Startup Space For Indians") describes itself this way: Startup Community For Indians. It was founded in 2015 and has 448.7K members.
How many members does r/StartUpIndia have?
r/StartUpIndia has about 450.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 260 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.7K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/StartUpIndia?
"Shark tank india trolling CEOs" reached 9.7K upvotes and 208 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/StartUpIndia.
What subreddits are similar to r/StartUpIndia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ.
What kind of posts do best on r/StartUpIndia?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are text posts and 26% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/StartUpIndia?
Across 260 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 06:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/StartUpIndia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/StartUpIndia has 3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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