How to share your startup on Steemit
TL;DR
Steemit is a free blogging site built on the Steem blockchain, where upvotes on posts pay out small amounts of crypto. It is still active in October 2026, with about 1,600 new posts a day, but the busiest communities are regional lifestyle groups and the #startup tag sees only a few posts a month. It fits crypto and Web3 founders far better than anyone else.
What is Steemit?
Steemit is the main website of Steem, a blockchain that stores posts, comments and votes. Members publish blog posts with up to eight tags, readers upvote them, and each post earns rewards for 7 days. By default, payouts arrive half in Steem Power (staked STEEM that gives voting influence) and half in liquid STEEM or Steem Dollars (SBD).
In 2020 a large part of the original community left for a fork of the chain called Hive, and Steemit has been smaller since. We checked activity through the public Steem API on 27 October 2026: 100 new posts in about 90 minutes, so roughly 1,600 a day. Replies are thin: about one in three of those posts had any comment. The largest communities by subscribers are Steem Venezuela, Comunidad Latina, Korea and a Bengali blogging group. The #startup tag held just 20 posts between 7 August and 23 October 2026.
Who should post on Steemit?
- Crypto, blockchain and Web3 startups that want readers who already hold STEEM.
- Founders who write in Spanish, Korean or Bengali and want to join those communities.
- Projects that build apps on the Steem chain and need users from its existing accounts.
- Skip it for B2B SaaS, consumer apps and local businesses: the audience is small and mostly outside your market.
How much does Steemit cost?
Signing up and posting are free. Creating an account on the Steem blockchain has a fee, which Steemit Inc. pays for accounts made through steemit.com. Upvotes on your posts pay rewards, but in our sample of 100 new posts, about two in three showed pending rewards below 0.10 SBD.
The domain authority of 89 belongs to steemit.com. Expect few readers or replies for a startup topic.
How do you share your startup on Steemit?
- Sign up at Steemit. The FAQ says you verify your email and phone number and then wait for approval.
- Save your master password offline. The FAQ warns that a lost password or owner key means no account recovery.
- Write an introduction post first, using the lowercase tags introduceyourself and one or two topic tags. Keep tags accurate: the FAQ warns that mistagging attracts downvotes.
- Publish a longer post about the problem your startup solves, with your own photos or screenshots. Posts must be at least 5 minutes apart.
- Respect the spam rules: asking for money, views, upvotes, follows or resteems counts as spam, and plagiarised content gets downvoted.
Tips to get more out of Steemit
- Join a community that matches your field and comment there for a week before you post about your product.
- Write in the language of the community you target; the biggest groups post in Spanish, Korean and Bengali.
- Use the #startup, #technology and #business tags, and check how recent the latest posts under each tag are.
Our verdict
Steemit is alive in 2026, with a steady flow of posts and a small group of loyal users. For most startups the return is close to zero: few readers look for products here and comments are rare. Crypto founders and teams that write for its Spanish, Korean or Bengali communities have a reason to try it.
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