r/micro_saas: rules, karma requirements and posting culture
A fast, loosely moderated board where solo founders show small SaaS products and ask for feedback. Easy to post in, hard to get noticed in.
micro_saas · Open on Reddit
- Members
- 140k
- Created
- 2021
- New posts a day
- 89.5
- Comments on a typical post
- 2
- New posts removed
- 11%
The short answer
r/micro_saas publishes no karma or account age requirement, and it has no public rules, no sidebar text and no post flairs to go on. About 89% of posts in our sample stayed up, roughly 10% were caught by Reddit's own filters, and we saw no moderator removals at all. Getting a post through is the easy part. With around 90 posts a day and a median of 2 comments per post, the hard part is getting anyone to read it.
Who posts here
Most posters are building a first or second small product, and many say they do not code and are leaning on AI tools to build. Terms like MRR, cold outreach and build in public are used without explanation, but basic questions such as how to launch at all stay up and get polite answers. Nothing here is pitched too low to post. A basic question is more likely to be ignored than mocked.
- Solo founders and two or three person teams showing a product that launched this week.
- Non-technical builders using AI coding tools and asking what comes after the prototype.
- Developers with a day job running a side project and looking for first users.
- Service sellers offering founders something free in exchange for examples or feedback: demo videos, teardowns, advice.
- A small number of founders posting revenue screenshots and outreach numbers.
Karma and account requirements
What it takes to get a post through in r/micro_saas.
| Karma | Not stated publicly. There are no published rules and no AutoModerator messages in our sample. About 10% of posts were removed by Reddit's own filters, which is low. |
|---|---|
| Account age | Not stated publicly. |
| Post flair | None. The subreddit has no post flairs in use. |
| Post types | Everything is open. About half of posts are text, 22% are links, 19% images and 8% video. |
| Links | No stated limit. Product links in posts are normal, and about a third of comments carry a link. |
What you can post
| Post type | Subreddit setting | Share of recent posts |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Allowed | 51% |
| Link | Allowed | 22% |
| Image | Allowed | 19% |
| Video | Allowed | 8% |
| Poll | Allowed | 0% |
What happens to a new post
Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.
- Stayed up89%
- Removed by Reddit's filters11%
- Deleted by the author1%
Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.
What happened when we posted here
We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.
- Stayed up
- 100%
- Removed by Reddit's filters
- 0%
- Removed by moderators
- 0%
- Period
- May 2026 to August 2026
The culture
r/micro_saas is a launch board more than a discussion forum. It has grown from about 41,000 members in 2025 to roughly 140,000, and it now takes around 90 posts a day. Most of them are a founder saying what they built, why, and asking for feedback. The phrases that define the place are "I built" and "honest feedback".
The supply of posts is far larger than the supply of readers. The median post gets 2 comments, and in our sample even the best scoring posts sat at one or two points. Comments are short, around 13 words, and a lot of them are other people's links. Treat it as a place to practise a pitch and pick up a few replies, not as a traffic source.
What moderation exists is light. There are no published rules, no sidebar text and no flairs, and we saw no moderator removals in the sample. The posts that disappeared were taken by Reddit's own spam filters. The result is a mixed feed: careful write ups sit next to one line ads, revenue brags and posts in other languages.
What lands
- A launch post with a story behind it: the problem you had, why existing tools did not fit, what you built, what you want feedback on.
- Numbers, including small or embarrassing ones. First sales, a first paying customer, a first year that made almost nothing.
- A follow up that shows what earlier feedback changed in the product, with a short demo.
- A specific question with your constraints stated, such as hours per week, budget and what you are comfortable doing.
- Offers to do something for other founders in the thread. They collect replies because everyone has a link to drop.
What gets removed or ignored
- There are no published rules and we saw no moderator removals, so there is no list of banned topics to report.
- About 10% of posts were removed by Reddit's own filters. Reddit does not say why, but its sitewide spam checks are the only gate we can see.
- Around 1% of posts were deleted by their own authors.
- Bare ads with a link and a line of copy do stay up. They just get no replies.
The unwritten rules
- Everyone here is selling something, so nobody is offended by a product link. Nobody is obliged to click it either.
- Ask for one specific thing. A post that asks about pricing, the landing page headline or one feature gets better answers than a general request for feedback.
- Give feedback on other people's products before you ask for it. The regulars who comment a lot are the ones whose own posts get replies.
- Loud revenue claims in capital letters draw skeptical comments about how the money was made, especially when the method is mass cold email.
- Write the post so it stands alone. Video and image posts with no text give readers nothing to respond to.
Self-promotion
There is no self-promotion rule, because there are no published rules at all. In practice promotion is the main activity: most posts name a product and link to it, and about a third of comments contain a link. That freedom is also the limit. A product post is one of about 90 that day and competes with all of them, so the ones that get replies are the ones that tell a story, share numbers or ask a real question. Reddit's own filters still apply and took about 10% of posts in our sample.
How people write here
- Typical post length
- 135 words
- Typical title length
- 13 words
- Titles phrased as a question
- 25%
- Typical comment length
- 13 words
- Comments that include a link
- 34%
When people post
- 0:00 UTC, 10
- 1:00 UTC, 5
- 2:00 UTC, 6
- 3:00 UTC, 12
- 4:00 UTC, 7
- 5:00 UTC, 12
- 6:00 UTC, 14
- 7:00 UTC, 14
- 8:00 UTC, 16
- 9:00 UTC, 18
- 10:00 UTC, 25
- 11:00 UTC, 27
- 12:00 UTC, 18
- 13:00 UTC, 28
- 14:00 UTC, 16
- 15:00 UTC, 32
- 16:00 UTC, 21
- 17:00 UTC, 24
- 18:00 UTC, 26
- 19:00 UTC, 15
- 20:00 UTC, 20
- 21:00 UTC, 18
- 22:00 UTC, 11
- 23:00 UTC, 5
New posts by hour of day, UTC.
Top keywords
The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/micro_saas.
- saas 106 posts
- product 89 posts
- feedback 69 posts
- app 76 posts
- tool 65 posts
- users 46 posts
- launch 33 posts
- founders 32 posts
- idea 54 posts
- solo 29 posts
- micro-saas 14 posts
- videos 29 posts
- love 54 posts
- instead 50 posts
- founder 25 posts
- businesses 30 posts
- video 33 posts
- marketing 35 posts
- paying 32 posts
- solo founder 13 posts
- product hunt 12 posts
- honest feedback 19 posts
- revenue 23 posts
- launched 19 posts
- customers 30 posts
- page 30 posts
- honest 28 posts
- useful 33 posts
- visitors 14 posts
- link 29 posts
- website 32 posts
- simple 31 posts
- customer 29 posts
- mrr 10 posts
- trial 15 posts
- share 33 posts
- email 31 posts
- problem 41 posts
- micro saas 8 posts
- extension 14 posts
Recurring topics: ai, saas, free, app, building, built, tool, launch, feedback, founders.
Growth
- 202222
- 2023610
- 20244.1k
- 202541k
- 2026140k
Related subreddits
- r/SaaS
- r/SaasDevelopers
- r/advancedentrepreneur
- r/SaaSMarketing
- r/SaaSSolopreneurs
- r/Entrepreneurs
- r/ProductHunters
- r/microsaas
- r/ecommerce
- r/nocode
Common questions
How much karma do you need to post in r/micro_saas?
No requirement is published. The subreddit has no public rules and no AutoModerator messages in our sample, and about 89% of posts stayed up. Roughly 10% were removed by Reddit's own filters, so a very new or spam flagged account can still be caught.
Can I promote my product in r/micro_saas?
Yes. There is no rule against it and most posts are product launches or feedback requests with a link. The catch is attention: there are around 90 posts a day and the median post gets 2 comments, so a plain ad will sit unread.
Is r/micro_saas worth posting in?
It is useful for early feedback and for practising how you describe your product. It is weak as a source of traffic or customers. Scores are low across the board and most replies are short. Post a specific question and reply to other founders if you want something back.
What kind of posts work in r/micro_saas?
Text posts of around 135 words that explain the problem, what you built and what you want to know. About half of posts are text, and a quarter of titles are questions. Honest numbers and follow ups that show what you changed after feedback do better than announcements.
Data as of October 4, 2026. Numbers come from public Reddit data (the Arctic Shift archive and GummySearch) sampled on this date. Removal share counts posts taken down by moderators, AutoModerator or Reddit's own filters. Banner and icon belong to the community. Moderators change rules without notice, so treat the sidebar as the final word.
