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r/theprimeagen

60.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.8K upvotes, which works out to 95 per 1,000 members.

95peak upvotes per 1,000 members
60.5Kmembers
5.8Kbest post
967most comments
154posts 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.

66% 14% 12%
Image 66% Link 14% Video 12% Text 5% Question 2% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

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

MEME 52 general 25 Stream Content :3_0: 9 vim 5 Programming Q/A 3 feedback 3 Advertise 1 vscode 1 keyboard/typing 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

How Linux users drive their car.

↑ 5.8K πŸ’¬ 60 video 2025

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is β€˜90% marketing and 10% reality’

↑ 4.4K πŸ’¬ 523 link 2025

Opus 4.8 is insane, nothing will be the same after this model.

↑ 4.1K πŸ’¬ 804 image 2026

Linus Torvalds, an underrated philosopher

↑ 4K πŸ’¬ 50 image 2025

"No more JavaScript on the backend" just signed

↑ 2.9K πŸ’¬ 156 image 2025

Mr. Penguin is always right

↑ 2.7K πŸ’¬ 15 image 2025

Why is every software engineer’s backup plan always farming?

↑ 2.5K πŸ’¬ 967 image 2026

Best short-path algorithm in 41 years

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 165 image 2025

Penguin is based

↑ 2.3K πŸ’¬ 9 image 2026

If you lay people off due to AI, you will be held to a higher standard. Coinbase laid off 14% of their engineers last week, then went offline for 7 h…

↑ 2.1K πŸ’¬ 190 image 2026

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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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