How to share your startup on r/growmybusiness

TL;DR

r/growmybusiness is a free subreddit with about 157,000 members (October 2026) where small business owners and founders swap advice on growing a company. Its rules ban selling, upselling, blog posts and outside surveys, and advice content with links goes into a monthly pinned thread. It suits founders who want growth feedback, and it gives almost no room for a launch announcement.

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/growmybusiness?

The subreddit calls itself the place to find and share creative advice for business growth. It more than doubled in a year: GummySearch counted a gain of about 85,000 members in the year to 26 October 2026, growth of 116.8%. ThreadFox reports that it accepts text posts only.

Two post flairs dominate the feed. Question led GummySearch's sample with 55 posts and Feedback followed with 11. Feedback (35 posts), struggling (29), business (23) and marketing (11) are the most common topics, and advice requests are the most common post type, with titles like "How can I make my services stand out?"

ThreadFox recorded five rules on 12 October 2026:

1. Advice content goes in the monthly thread: "Post advice and strategy content in the monthly sticky thread." The rule adds: "You may include a signature and links but it needs to have content."
2. Keep discourse civil: be respectful and add to the conversation.
3. No selling or upselling: "No selling or up selling of products or services allowed."
4. No blog posts, and that includes asking for feedback on a blog post.
5. No external surveys or feedback requests: moderators see them as a way to collect contact details.

Who should post on r/growmybusiness?

Good fit:

• Founders stuck on growth who want specific feedback on their marketing, pricing or service.
• Small business owners and service providers comparing tactics.
• Founders with real growth lessons to share in the monthly thread.

Skip it:

• Anyone who wants to sell or announce a product: rule 3 forbids it.
• Content marketers: rule 4 bans blog posts outright.
• Anyone after SEO: Reddit links carry nofollow, and the DA 95 belongs to reddit.com, so your site gets no ranking credit.

How much does r/growmybusiness cost?

Posting is free. Paid reach on Reddit goes through Reddit Ads, a separate product.

How do you share your startup on r/growmybusiness?

1. Open r/growmybusiness, join, and read the sidebar rules and pinned posts first.
2. To share a lesson with a link, post it in the monthly thread: write the advice in full, then add a short signature with your startup's name and URL.
3. To get help, write a text post with the Question or Feedback flair. Describe the business, the numbers and what you have tried, and keep sales language and links out of it.
4. Keep feedback inside Reddit: no Google Forms, no survey links, no request to email you.

Tips to get more out of r/growmybusiness

• Lead with numbers: monthly revenue, leads per week, conversion rate.
• Make the monthly thread entry stand alone. A reader who never clicks your signature should still learn something useful.
• Ask for feedback on one thing: your pricing page headline, your offer, your first sales email.
• Reply to struggling owners with what worked for your startup. Helpful comments are the one place where your company name fits naturally.

Our verdict

r/growmybusiness is a large and fast-growing room of about 157,000 business owners, with strict rules against selling. Use it for feedback and to share real growth lessons in the monthly thread, and launch your product elsewhere.

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