r/microsaas: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

A high-volume room where solo founders post their small SaaS products, early numbers and distribution problems. Text posts only in practice, few rules, and a lot of competition for attention.

Software as a Service businesses run by a very small team. · Open on Reddit

Members: 220k
Created: 2017
New posts a day: 75.8
Comments on a typical post: 4
New posts removed: 46%

The short answer

r/microsaas publishes no karma or account age requirement, and has no sidebar text at all. The one firm gate is format: AutoModerator removes bare link submissions and asks for a text post with the link inside it. Half of the posts in our sample did not stay up, with about 30% removed on the moderation side and 16% by Reddit's filters, and nearly all the removed posts we could see were link, image or video posts. Write a text post about your product or your numbers and it will most likely stand. Whether anyone reads it is a separate problem, because around 76 posts go up every day.

Who posts here

Knowledge levelBeginner to intermediate

Most posters are on a first or second product with zero to a handful of paying customers, and they say so. Basic questions about validation, pricing and finding first users are asked constantly and answered patiently, often by people only a step or two ahead. Technical and marketing terms are used loosely and nobody is told to go and search.

Solo developers who have shipped a small product and are looking for their first users or first ten customers.
Founders posting running diaries and honest status reports: signups, revenue, costs, what they tried this week.
Builders at the idea stage asking whether something is worth making or how to price it.
Freelancers and service sellers offering work to founders, such as support or churn outreach.
People trying to sell or hand off a product they built and could not market.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/microsaas.

Karma	Not stated publicly.
Account age	Not stated publicly.
Links	No bare link posts. Write a text post that introduces the topic and put the link in the body.Mods' wording: “Bare link submissions aren't allowed on r/MicroSaaS.”
Post type	Text in practice. About 94% of posts that stayed up are text. Image, link and video posts made up almost all of the removals we could see, including posts whose text version stayed up.
Topic	Posts should be about micro SaaS products. The rule is one line with no further detail.Mods' wording: “Only posts about Micro SaaS apps”
Post flair	None. No post in our sample carried a flair.

What AutoModerator says

The moderators' bot leaves these messages on posts. They are the closest thing to an official statement of the thresholds.

Bare link submissions aren't allowed on r/MicroSaaS. Please write a text post that introduces the topic and includes the link as supporting context.

What you can post

Post type	Subreddit setting	Share of recent posts
Text	Allowed	94%
Link	Allowed	5%
Image	Allowed	0%
Video	Allowed	2%
Poll	Allowed	0%

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

Stayed up50%
Removed by Reddit's filters16%
Removed by moderators30%
Deleted by the author4%

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: October 2025 to August 2026

The rules, in the mods' words

1
Only posts about Micro SaaS apps
2
Please be respectful, don't do unethical things
3
Dont do spam, troll & ...

These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.

The culture

r/microsaas has about 220,000 members and a very simple premise: software businesses run by one person or a very small team. There is no sidebar, no wiki, and three one-line rules covering topic, respect and spam. The room runs on volume, at roughly 76 posts a day.

Nearly every post is a founder talking about their own product. The common shapes are the build announcement, the honest status report with real numbers, the day-by-day challenge diary, the lesson learned from a failed launch, and the request for feedback on a landing page or a pricing model. Posts run to around 140 words with long descriptive titles, and about 30% of titles are questions. The typical post gets about four comments.

The shared obsession is distribution. Post after post says the same thing in different words: building took a weekend, finding users is taking months. Waitlists that did not convert, cold outreach that got no replies, launches that brought traffic but no payment. Because almost everyone here is a seller and few are buyers, the useful replies come from other founders giving blunt feedback, not from customers.

What lands

Honest status reports with the unflattering numbers included: zero paying customers, a handful of signups, monthly costs. These get real replies with specific suggestions.
A direct request to critique one thing, such as a landing page that got visits but no signups. Commenters will read the page and tell you what made them leave.
Lessons from a mistake, like treating a long waitlist as proof of demand and then finding nobody paid.
Narrow practical questions, for example whether buyers of a data product prefer paying per result or a monthly plan.
Small first wins told plainly, such as a first referral from an AI assistant or a first paying customer, written as a text post.

What gets removed or ignored

Bare link posts. This is the only removal message AutoModerator sends in our sample, and it was sent a lot.
Image and video posts, including first customer screenshots and product demos. The same stories posted as text stayed up.
The same post submitted twice in different formats. Duplicates are common in the removed list.
Posts with nothing to do with small software businesses, and posts that are only a title with no body.
Posts in languages other than English were among the removals, though no rule states this.

The unwritten rules

Everyone is promoting something, so a post that is only a pitch gets ignored. Give a number, a lesson or a question people can answer.
Put the product link in the body, once, after you have said what the product does and who it is for.
Feedback is direct and usually kind. People will tell you that fourteen visitors is too few to judge a page, or that your copy could describe any product in the category.
Comments are around 43 words and about 6% contain a link. Recommending a tool in a reply is normal, and a reply that only exists to drop your own link is easy to spot.
Do not expect upvotes. Most posts sit at a point or two with a few comments. A good outcome is three useful replies.

Self-promotion

There is no self-promotion rule. The rules ask for posts about micro SaaS apps and say not to spam, with no definition of either. In practice talking about your own product is the default activity here, and product names and links in the body of a text post are normal. What gets removed is the format, not the pitch: bare links, images and videos. Service offers and product sale listings also stay up. The real limit is that the audience is other founders doing the same thing, so a plain announcement tends to get no response while a post with numbers or a real question gets feedback.

How people write here

Typical post length: 142 words
Typical title length: 14 words
Titles phrased as a question: 30%
Typical comment length: 43 words
Comments that include a link: 6%

When people post

0:00 UTC, 8
1:00 UTC, 10
2:00 UTC, 8
3:00 UTC, 6
4:00 UTC, 11
5:00 UTC, 10
6:00 UTC, 15
7:00 UTC, 15
8:00 UTC, 8
9:00 UTC, 17
10:00 UTC, 9
11:00 UTC, 29
12:00 UTC, 11
13:00 UTC, 19
14:00 UTC, 27
15:00 UTC, 33
16:00 UTC, 32
17:00 UTC, 32
18:00 UTC, 32
19:00 UTC, 24
20:00 UTC, 17
21:00 UTC, 18
22:00 UTC, 4
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/microsaas.

saas 100 posts
product 85 posts
users 60 posts
tool 71 posts
founders 39 posts
customers 45 posts
app 57 posts
micro saas 14 posts
launched 25 posts
founder 27 posts
solo 25 posts
paying customers 16 posts
launch 26 posts
paying 35 posts
customer 36 posts
signups 15 posts
feedback 39 posts
emails 25 posts
idea 39 posts
nobody 25 posts
website 32 posts
kept 26 posts
ai website 9 posts
distribution 16 posts
builder 16 posts
problem 42 posts
saas founders 10 posts
audience 17 posts
revenue 20 posts
sends invoices 5 posts
payers automatically 5 posts
late payers 5 posts
chases late 5 posts
email 31 posts
page 27 posts
useful 30 posts
zero 24 posts
gamma 8 posts
website builder 9 posts
paid 29 posts

Recurring topics: built, ai, saas, product, building, time, idea, looking for, free, made.

Growth

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Common questions

How much karma do you need to post in r/microsaas?

No karma or account age requirement is published, and the one AutoModerator message we collected is about link posts, not karma. About 16% of posts in our sample were removed by Reddit's own filters, which tend to catch new or low-activity accounts, but the subreddit itself states no number.

Can I promote my SaaS in r/microsaas?

Yes. Most posts are founders talking about their own products, and no rule bans it beyond a one-line instruction not to spam. Post it as text, explain what the product does and where it stands, and include the link in the body. Do not submit a bare link.

Why was my r/microsaas post removed?

Most likely because it was not a text post. AutoModerator removes bare link submissions and asks for a text post with the link as supporting context, and almost all the removed posts we could see were link, image or video posts. Half of the posts in our sample did not stay up.

What kind of posts work in r/microsaas?

Text posts of around 140 words that share real numbers, a specific lesson or a clear question. Honest updates about signups, revenue and what did not work draw the most useful replies. The typical post gets about four comments, so judge it by the feedback and not the score.

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.