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r/startups

2.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 2K upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.1Mmembers
2Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
1.6Kposts 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.

58% 42%
Text 58% Question 42%

The topics it labels

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

I will not promote 46 General Startup Discussion 15 How You Can Do This πŸ‘©β€πŸ« 8 Share Your Startup πŸš€ 6 Blog / Video Post πŸ‘‰ 4 How Do I Do This πŸ₯Ί 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

How I bootstrapped a $40m company overnight

↑ 2K πŸ’¬ 325 text 2021

SEO is easy. The EXACT process we use to scale our clients' SEO from 0 to 200k monthly traffic and beyond

↑ 1.7K πŸ’¬ 249 text 2020

If only someone told me this before my 1st startup

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 372 text 2023

I'm a Serial Founder. Here's how I come up with Business Ideas. I will not promote.

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 308 text 2026

I had a VC-Funded Unicorn-in-the-Making and I F*cked it up - Here's How (I will not promote)

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 228 text 2025

Ban X.com (formerly Twitter) links from this subreddit?

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 335 question 2025

A step-by-step guide of how I would build a SaaS company right now - part 1

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 137 text 2020

3 years into building a startup. Here’s what no one warns you about (I will not promote).

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 255 text 2026

Google just killed my ~$1M ARR startup because a hacker abused THEIR API design. 100k users locked out, 1M+ photos frozen, and they billed me for it.…

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 254 text 2026

Sold my startup for mid 7-figures

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 252 text 2024

Communities its size

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

See what is climbing here before you write

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/startups, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.