How to share your startup on r/Entrepreneur
TL;DR
r/Entrepreneur is a free subreddit with about 5.3 million members (October 2026), one of the largest business communities on Reddit. Its first rule reads "No promotion, sales, or solicitation", so promotion belongs only in the designated weekly threads. It suits founders who share real lessons and numbers, and it punishes anyone who drops a link and leaves.
How we checked: we read these rules through public subreddit trackers in October 2026. Read the sidebar and the pinned posts before you post, since moderators update the rules.
What is r/Entrepreneur?
r/Entrepreneur has run on Reddit since August 2008 and covers every kind of business: side hustles, small shops, solo founders and venture-backed startups. GummySearch counted about 367,000 new members in the year to October 2026. The most used post flairs in its October snapshot were Weekly Discussion, Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Success Story and Growth and Expansion, and most threads are requests for advice or new ideas.
The moderators run a strict feed. Five rules apply, according to WillItStay's check in October 2026:
- No promotion, sales, or solicitation: no selling, recruiting, hiring, job-seeking or asking for investment. Breaking it can end in a permanent ban.
- Civility and inclusivity.
- Posting requirements: you must comment on other posts before you post, and posts must be "specific, practical, and grounded in real entrepreneurial effort."
- Original and human content only: no reposts and no AI-generated posts or comments.
- AMAs need approval through modmail.
Who should post on r/Entrepreneur?
Good fit:
- Founders with a concrete story: a first sale, a failed launch, a pricing test with numbers.
- People who want advice from a huge audience of other business owners.
- Founders ready to comment for a week or two before their first post.
Skip it:
- Anyone who wants launch traffic: link posts are off, and promo outside the weekly threads gets removed.
- Agencies, consultants and course sellers looking for clients.
- If you want SEO: Reddit links carry nofollow, and the DA 95 belongs to reddit.com, so your site gets no ranking credit.
How much does r/Entrepreneur cost?
Posting is free. The subreddit sells no featured slots, and Reddit Ads runs separately from the community.
How do you share your startup on r/Entrepreneur?
- Open r/Entrepreneur, join, and read the sidebar rules and the pinned posts first. The pinned weekly threads tell you where offers and promotion go this week.
- Earn karma inside the subreddit. SpaceStationLabs reported in October 2026 that text posts require 10 comment karma earned in r/Entrepreneur and a verified email address, and that karma from other subreddits does not count.
- Write a text post (the subreddit takes text only) about one specific lesson, with your numbers. Leave out links, DM offers and requests to visit your profile. For a direct product mention, use the matching weekly thread.
Tips to get more out of r/Entrepreneur
- Lead with a number in the title: revenue, customers, hours spent, money lost.
- Answer questions in Weekly Discussion threads for a few weeks. It builds the karma you need and makes your username familiar to regulars.
- Write it yourself. Rule 4 bans AI-written posts and comments, and breaking it leads to removal or a ban.
- Post early in the UTC morning: WillItStay found the strongest scores on Monday around 8:00 UTC.
- Stay in the comments for the first hours.
Our verdict
r/Entrepreneur gives you the biggest audience of business owners on Reddit, free of charge, under some of the strictest promotion rules. Treat it as a place to learn in public and earn trust through useful posts, and keep your launch announcement for the weekly threads or a launch-friendly subreddit.
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