r/SaaS: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

Who posts here

Most posters are first-time or solo founders, many of them non-technical, asking how to get users, whether to charge, or which hosting to pick. Terms like MRR, churn and B2B are used without explanation, but that is about as deep as the jargon goes. Basic questions do get answered, often with long practical replies, though very thin ones draw little and some are removed as not helping anyone.

• Solo founders and indie developers with a launched product and few or no paying users.
• Non-technical founders building with AI coding tools and asking what comes after the prototype.
• Operators with a small, established product worrying about churn, pricing or AI eating their niche.
• Marketers, cold outreach sellers and agency people sharing playbooks, often with a product behind them.
• Experienced developers in the comments, skeptical of revenue screenshots and quick builds.

Karma and account requirements

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

What you can post

What happens to a new post

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

• Stayed up54%
• Removed by Reddit's filters26%
• Held by AutoModerator<1%
• Removed by moderators18%
• Deleted by the author2%

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

98%

Removed by Reddit's filters

2%

Removed by moderators

<1%

Period

August 2025 to August 2026

The rules, in the mods' words

1. 1

   Submission Guidelines

   Follow the Reddit site-wide rules and please treat others with respect, stay on-topic, and avoid non-productive self-promotion. No spam. Feedback requests must be posted in the weekly feedback thread! (A post that will always be pinned at the top of the community)

2. 2

   No Direct Sales Or Non-Productive Self-Promotion

   Promotion is ok here, but please don’t mention your SaaS/blog/company unless it’s relevant and actually helpful for someone reading. Overdoing it results in a ban. Direct sales that are unsolicited are forbidden as well. No PM requests please (unless people really request it), and no promotion for other communities outside Reddit. Feedback requests must be posted in the weekly feedback thread! (A post that will always be pinned at the top of the community) No promotion of other communities.

3. 3

   Posting SaaS Relevant Content Only

   Please keep the discussions oriented around SaaS, tech companies, business in general or even personal aspects of the business world. If posts are not somehow helping anyone in regards to the topic, removals and bans will be enforced.

4. 4

   Blog Posts Rules

   You may submit your blog post as long as the main ideas are in the Reddit post. You need to provide value to people through your post and not simply present what you're talking about in your article. The more value you provide in the body of the Reddit post, the safer it is to say that it won't be removed. The only way a link is allowed is at the end of the post (“Originally posted here”), unless highly relevant (don't abuse this). Anything else will be removed/banned.

5. 5

   Be Kind And Supportive — Criticise Ideas, Not People

   At the end of the day, we’re all trying to make the world better for us and for those around us. "Be nice and supportive" is common sense. Try to criticise objectively and not personally.

6. 6

   Other Bad Behaviour

   * Doxing－Posting or seeking personal information, dox attempts or threats * Flooding－Posting excessively frequently * Duplicates－Reposting news or information * Plagiarism－Not giving credit properly * Hyping－Pushing speculative, volatile, illiquid, or meme investments, especially flippantly, tersely, or implying huge returns * Missing－Disappearing after posting a discussion, posting for another with inadequate information

7. 7

   Politicizing

   We don't allow: * Moralizing issues * Petitions or calls-to-action * Political discussions * Political baiting * Soapboxing

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

The culture

r/SaaS has about 820,000 members and sees around 177 new posts a day. It is where solo founders come to talk about the thing they are building, and almost everyone in the room is in the same position. About three quarters of posts are text, the median post is 135 words, and a bit over a third of titles are questions.

The posts that reach the top are not the typical ones. The biggest scores go to memes and one-line observations about founder life: being too lazy to market your own app, bots probing a server for secrets, a launch that made exactly nothing. Below that sits a steady flow of first-sale celebrations, revenue screenshots and build diaries, and a long tail of questions that get four comments.

The live argument is that AI made building cheap and attention scarce. Several of the most upvoted posts say the same thing in different words: everyone can ship now, and there are no more buyers than before. That feeds a second argument about honesty. Revenue brag posts pull hundreds of comments, and a good share of them accuse the poster of advertising or of faking the screenshot.

What lands

• A sharp one-line observation about the founder experience, often with an image. The top posts of the period are all this.
• Honest failure. A post celebrating zero revenue after 60 days and one about watching a product slowly die both drew hundreds of comments.
• A real first sale, told plainly, with thanks and no pitch.
• A full playbook given away in the post body, such as several years of content marketing lessons from someone who had just been laid off.
• A strong contrarian opinion with experience behind it, like a backend developer arguing that prompt-built apps are making software worse.

What gets removed or ignored

• Feedback requests posted as their own thread. The rules send them to the weekly thread, and "would love honest feedback" posts are all over the mod removals.
• "I built" announcements where the product is the whole post.
• Reposts. Several removed posts were the same text submitted twice, and some later stayed up reworded. The rules list flooding and duplicates as bad behaviour.
• Questions that read as market research for a product, such as asking a profession whether a problem your tool solves is real.
• Off-topic posts, rage-bait titles, and praise for a named tool that reads as planted.

The unwritten rules

• Put everything in the post. A post that makes sense with the link deleted is the standard the rules set, and readers hold you to it.
• Expect to be checked. Commenters look at your history, find the product you did not mention, and say so.
• Stay in the thread after posting. The rules name disappearing after starting a discussion as bad behaviour.
• Comments run about 25 words and under 4% contain a link. New accounts cannot link in comments at all, so answer the question in words.
• Do not ask people to DM you. The rules forbid PM requests unless someone asks first.

Self-promotion

The rule is more generous than most: promotion is fine as long as mentioning your product is relevant and helpful to the reader, and overdoing it gets you banned. Unsolicited direct sales, PM requests and promoting outside communities are forbidden, and your own blog post is allowed only if the main ideas are in the Reddit post with the link at the end. In practice moderators remove about 17% of posts, and most of those are launch posts, feedback requests and thin wrappers around a product. Posts that name a product and stay up tend to lead with a number, a lesson or a problem, and mention the product late. Even then the comments will say it out loud if it reads as an ad.

How people write here

Typical post length

135 words

Typical title length

12 words

Titles phrased as a question

37%

Typical comment length

25 words

Comments that include a link

4%

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/SaaS.

• saas 106 posts
• product 74 posts
• users 44 posts
• launch 30 posts
• founders 30 posts
• app 52 posts
• feedback 46 posts
• founder 28 posts
• solo 24 posts
• problem 49 posts
• launched 22 posts
• saas founders 12 posts
• tool 39 posts
• idea 38 posts
• customer 30 posts
• marketing 29 posts
• paid 29 posts
• traction 12 posts
• part 40 posts
• distribution 15 posts
• developer 19 posts
• solo founder 10 posts
• revenue 18 posts
• tools 31 posts
• mrr 9 posts
• page 24 posts
• product hunt 9 posts
• linkedin 17 posts
• customers 23 posts
• creators 12 posts
• user 21 posts
• niche 15 posts
• paying 22 posts
• feature 16 posts
• features 18 posts
• hey 29 posts
• mvp 9 posts
• apps 19 posts
• simple 24 posts
• b2b 15 posts

Common questions