50+ Reddit Post Ideas for Founders
Below are 56+ Reddit post ideas for founders, organized by the seven goals a post can actually serve: get feedback, build an audience before launch, launch or announce, learn from the community, drive discussion, share a lesson or story, and re-engage after a quiet stretch. Only one of those seven goals is inherently promotional. The other six work with your product unnamed or barely mentioned, which is the whole point.
Most of what you post on Reddit should not be a pitch. That used to be codified as a 9:1 ratio, nine non-promotional contributions for every promotional one; Reddit retired it as official policy, but it survives as the norm moderators and spam filters still lean on. This page is built around that reality: the majority of the ideas below are non-promo on purpose, because they’re the ones that make the one promotional post you eventually write actually land.
Reddit's daily active unique visitors as of Q4 2025, up 19% year over year. That's the pool of people a well-placed idea from this list can reach.
View the Reddit usage data (Business of Apps)TL;DR: nine non-promo ideas for every promo one
The 9:1 mental model isn’t an enforced rule anymore, but treat it as the ratio you’re writing toward. Out of the seven goal sections below, six (feedback, audience, learning, discussion, story, re-engagement) are non-promotional and safe to lean on constantly. One (launch and announce) is promotional and belongs in a subreddit’s sanctioned outlet for it, used sparingly. If most of your post history comes from the launch section alone, the account reads as a promoter, no matter how good any single post is.
How to pick an idea that fits your goal
Four steps, before you touch a title.
1. Name the goal before you name the idea
Feedback, audience, launch, learning, discussion, a story, or re-engagement are seven different jobs. A post written for one goal usually reads wrong for another, since a feedback post needs a specific question and a discussion post needs an opinion, not a request.
2. Check how many promotional posts that goal actually needs
Only one of the seven goals below, launch and announce, is inherently promotional. The other six work with your product unnamed or mentioned once in passing, which is exactly what keeps your account's ratio of promotional to non-promotional activity healthy.
3. Match the idea to a subreddit's format, not just its topic
A feedback idea fits a subreddit built for feedback. A discussion idea fits a subreddit built for discussion. The same good idea, posted in a subreddit whose format does not allow it, gets removed regardless of how well it is written.
4. Write the title before the body
Most of the ideas below are already phrased close to a title. Start there, tighten it to something a real member of that subreddit would type, then build the body underneath it.
Have the idea. Need the draft.
Pick any idea above, tell the generator your goal and the subreddit you're aiming at, and get title options, a full draft in that community's voice, and removal-risk warnings before you post.
Title options
Get feedback
You can name your project here. The ask is critique, not adoption, which is what most feedback-focused subreddits exist for.
“Roast my [landing page / onboarding flow] before I ship it”
Directly inviting criticism primes readers to point out flaws instead of scrolling past a polished pitch.
“I built X to solve Y. What would make you actually use it?”
Framing the ask as research rather than a demo gets more specific, usable answers than a generic thoughts?
“Which of these two onboarding flows would you pick? (screenshots inside)”
A concrete either-or choice is easier to answer than an open-ended request, so more people actually reply.
“What's the first thing you'd change about this one page?”
Narrowing the ask to a single page instead of the whole product produces answers you can act on the same day.
“Pricing feedback: does $X a month feel fair for what it does?”
Pricing questions reliably pull long, opinionated threads because almost everyone has a take.
“I've been building this for three months. Tell me why it won't work.”
Inviting the harshest possible read surfaces the objections you'd otherwise hear for the first time on launch day.
“Beta testers wanted, but what I really want is your complaints”
Reframing a beta call as a request for criticism instead of a request for users keeps it out of promotional territory.
“Does this onboarding email make sense to someone who's never seen the product?”
Tests a single piece of copy in isolation, something most founders never do before it goes out to real users.
Build an audience before launch
These posts rarely mention a product by name. The goal is being a known, useful presence before you ever ask for anything.
“Building X in public. Week one: what I already got wrong”
Build-in-public posts earn a following before there is anything to sell, which makes the eventual launch post land on a warm account.
“What's the most annoying part of doing [task] manually right now?”
Surfaces the exact pain point your product solves, phrased as a genuine question instead of a pitch.
“Sharing my research before I build anything. Does this problem sound familiar?”
Validates demand publicly and gives people a reason to remember your username before launch day.
“What tools do you wish existed for [job or industry]?”
A pure discussion prompt that happens to double as market research, with zero promotional risk.
“I'm 60 days from launch. What should I be worried about?”
Asking for warnings instead of attention reads as humble, and experienced members love answering it in detail.
“Documenting every mistake I make building this, starting now”
A running thread format gives you a reason to keep showing up in the same subreddit without repeating a pitch.
“I quit my job to build this. What's the one thing I should do differently than most people?”
A personal stakes story invites advice-giving, which is one of the highest-engagement comment patterns on Reddit.
“What's a small workflow win that saved you real time last month?”
A genuinely useful, product-agnostic question that builds goodwill and account history at the same time.
Launch or announce
The one goal on this page that is inherently promotional. It belongs in a subreddit's designated share thread, or in a subreddit built for exactly this, not blasted into the main feed of somewhere that isn't.
“I built X. Here's why, and what it actually does”
Plain and direct works better here than hype. Say what problem it solves and how, then stop.
“Launched today. Would love your first impressions”
Framing launch day as a request for reactions, not a request for signups, invites replies instead of silence.
“Six months of build-in-public posts later, here's what shipped”
Ties the launch back to a history the subreddit may already recognize, instead of appearing out of nowhere.
“I made the thing I was complaining about last month. It's live”
Callback posts that reference your own earlier, non-promotional thread read as follow-through, not a cold pitch.
“The problem from my post a few weeks ago now has a fix. Here it is”
Same idea, framed as closing a loop with people who already engaged with you once.
“X is live. Built it after [a specific, concrete trigger]”
A specific origin story reads as a real account of a real decision, not marketing copy with a launch date attached.
“Soft launch: X is up, still rough, tell me what breaks”
Framing launch as an open beta invites bug reports and feedback instead of just traffic, and reads as more honest.
“Officially launching X today. Ask me anything about how it works”
An AMA-style launch shifts the thread toward Q&A, which tends to outlast a plain announcement post.
Learn from the community
You're the one asking, not the one pitching. These posts build genuine activity and teach you things a landing page never will.
“How did you get your first ten paying customers?”
One of the most reliably answered questions on founder subreddits, since almost everyone has a specific story.
“What's one piece of advice you'd give someone about to post on Reddit for the first time?”
Meta and self-aware in a way that fits founder subreddits well, and produces genuinely useful replies.
“What made you stop using a tool you used to love?”
Churn stories are candid and specific, and often surface exactly the kind of detail a landing page hides.
“How do you decide what to build next?”
A process question rather than a product question, so it works even in subreddits with zero tolerance for anything promotional.
“What's a lesson about [your niche] you learned the hard way?”
Invites long, specific answers, and gives you a natural reason to reply with follow-up questions later.
“Founders who bootstrapped: what would you do differently?”
Retrospective questions pull in experienced members who rarely comment on ordinary posts.
“What's the actual cost of running a small SaaS these days?”
Concrete-numbers questions get concrete-numbers answers, which are useful for your own planning too.
“How do you know when an idea is worth building?”
A broad, genuinely open question that invites debate rather than a single right answer.
Drive discussion
No ask at all here, product or otherwise. The goal is a good thread, which is what earns an account the standing to post other things later.
“Unpopular opinion: most [category] tools solve the wrong problem”
A stated opinion, not a question, gives people something concrete to agree or disagree with, which drives more replies than a neutral prompt.
“What's the worst piece of startup advice you've followed?”
Combines humor and honesty, a combination that consistently performs well in founder subreddits.
“Is [a common practice in your niche] actually worth it, or just cargo culting?”
Questioning a widely accepted practice invites both defenders and skeptics into the same thread.
“What would you build if you had six months and no revenue pressure?”
A hypothetical with no stakes attached lowers the bar for people to share genuinely interesting ideas.
“Change my mind: [your niche] doesn't need another [category] tool”
The change-my-mind format is a known, well-liked Reddit convention that reliably pulls long comment chains.
“What's a metric everyone tracks that doesn't actually matter?”
A contrarian, specific question that experienced founders enjoy answering at length.
“Do you think [a current trend in your space] is overhyped or underrated?”
Trend takes age well as evergreen discussion fodder and tend to resurface in search long after posting.
“What's the one feature every [category] tool gets wrong?”
Specific enough to invite detailed complaints, general enough that it doesn't read as fishing for your own product's validation.
Share a lesson or a story
The product can appear once, briefly, as context for the lesson. The lesson is the point, not the product.
“I spent four months building the wrong feature. Here's how I noticed”
A specific, admitted mistake reads as more credible than a highlight reel, and invites people to share their own.
“My first Reddit post got removed. Here's what I changed”
A meta, self-deprecating post that fits naturally in founder subreddits and doubles as free credibility.
“The pricing mistake that cost me three months of revenue”
Numbers plus a mistake is a strong combination; people trust specifics over vague reassurance.
“What losing my first paying customer taught me”
A small, human-scale story rather than a big milestone, which tends to feel more relatable than a launch recap.
“I ignored feedback for a year. It cost me”
Cautionary posts perform well because readers get the lesson without having to make the mistake themselves.
“The support ticket that changed how I think about my product”
A single concrete anecdote is easier to write and easier to read than a general reflection on customer support.
“Why I killed a feature everyone said they wanted”
Counterintuitive decisions make for good stories, and this one naturally explains your product without pitching it.
“A year of building alone: what I'd tell myself on day one”
Retrospective, advice-shaped posts age well and continue pulling comments long after the first day.
Re-engage after a quiet stretch
For an account that has gone quiet, or a project that stalled. The goal is showing up as a person again before you post anything with an ask attached.
“Back after a long break. What did I miss in [your niche]?”
A simple, honest re-entry post that costs nothing and re-establishes you as an active participant.
“Picking this project back up after six months. Here's where it stands”
An honest status update, including the stall itself, reads better than pretending the gap never happened.
“I went quiet for a while. Here's why, and what's different now”
Addressing the absence directly, briefly, clears the air before you post anything that needs goodwill.
“What's changed in [your niche] since I last posted here?”
A question that re-opens a conversation without requiring you to have anything new to show yet.
“Reviving an old thread: did anyone end up solving [the problem]?”
Closes a loop on something you or others raised before, which is a low-effort, genuinely useful way back in.
“Coming back to properly answer the questions on my post from months ago”
Follow-through on an old thread signals you're a real participant, not someone who posts and disappears.
“Still building, just slower. An update nobody asked for”
Self-aware framing lowers the stakes of a plain status update and tends to read as refreshingly honest.
“What are people building differently in [your niche] this year versus last?”
A forward-looking question that re-establishes presence without leaning on your own history at all.
Goal, subreddit type, and promo status at a glance
| Goal | Best subreddit type | Promo status |
|---|---|---|
| Get feedback | Feedback and critique-focused communities | Non-promo |
| Build an audience before launch | Founder and niche discussion communities where you have history | Non-promo |
| Launch or announce | Promo-tolerant communities, in their designated share thread or space | Promo |
| Learn from the community | Q&A and advice-format communities | Non-promo |
| Drive discussion | General discussion and niche interest communities | Non-promo |
| Share a lesson or story | Founder-story and journey-focused communities | Non-promo |
| Re-engage after a quiet stretch | Any community where the account already has a history | Mostly non-promo |
Which ideas are safe where
This page is about post fit, not about which specific subreddits to find. But three format patterns show up often enough across founder-adjacent communities that they’re worth knowing before you pick an idea.
Some communities require every main post to be phrased as a question, no exceptions. A learn-from-the-community idea fits this format natively. A launch or story idea does not, no matter how well it's written, unless it's rephrased as a genuine question.
Some founder subreddits ban selling, promoting, or driving traffic outside a designated weekly thread entirely, with participation in other posts' comments expected first. The launch-and-announce idea belongs in that thread specifically, not the main feed, even on a day it feels like the news deserves its own post.
Some communities allow self-promotion but cap it at roughly once every couple of months per account, with affiliation disclosed up front. That single allowed mention is exactly the launch idea; every other visit to that subreddit should draw from the other six goals instead.
The specific numbers and rules behind these patterns change and vary by community. Always read a subreddit’s own rules page before posting, rather than assuming any general pattern applies exactly as described here.
Four ways this list gets misused
Picking only ideas from the launch goal
If every post you've ever made in a subreddit comes from the launch-and-announce list, the account reads as a promoter first and a participant never, regardless of how the individual posts are worded. The other six goals exist to be the majority of what you post, not filler.
Ignoring the community's required format
A strong feedback idea posted into a Q&A-only community as a statement instead of a question gets removed on format alone, before anyone even reads it. Check what shape of post the community actually accepts before picking which idea to use.
Reusing the exact same idea across many communities at once
An idea is a starting point, not a script to paste everywhere. The same prompt needs a different title, a different level of detail, and sometimes a different goal entirely depending on the community's norms and what it already expects from posts like it.
Treating every idea as a chance to mention the product
A learn-from-the-community or drive-discussion idea that quietly pivots into a product mention in the second paragraph reads as bait, and experienced members notice the pivot immediately. Let non-promotional ideas stay non-promotional.
How the generator turns an idea into a draft
An idea on this page is a starting line, not a finished post. The Reddit Post Generator takes it the rest of the way, for free, with no signup required.
1. Pick an idea and a subreddit
Start from any line above, or your own variation of one, and decide which subreddit you're writing it for. The generator suggests subreddits if you leave that field blank.
2. Describe the goal, not just the product
Tell it whether you're asking for feedback, sharing a lesson, or announcing a launch. The tone and structure of a good post differ across those goals more than most people expect.
3. Get several title options, tuned to the subreddit's voice
You get multiple title directions to choose from, written to sound like a member of that specific community rather than a generic press release.
4. Review the removal-risk flags before you post
The draft comes back with notes on things like a link sitting in the body, ad-speak that slipped in, or a missing question, the same details that get otherwise-good posts removed.
It does not auto-post, schedule, or run on its own. It writes the draft; you post it yourself, from your own account.
If you only remember two lines
Six of the seven goals here are non-promo on purpose. Lean on feedback, audience-building, learning, discussion, story, and re-engagement ideas constantly. Save the launch section for the moment you actually have something to announce, and post it where the community allows it.
An idea is not a finished post. Match it to the subreddit’s actual format, write a title a real member would type, and only then build the body underneath it.
More ways to make a post spread
Reddit post ideas, answered
Do most of these post ideas need to mention my product?
No. Six of the seven goal sections, feedback, audience-building, learning, discussion, story, and re-engagement, work with your product unnamed or mentioned once in passing. Only the launch and announce section is built around naming and describing what you made.
How many of these ideas should be promotional?
Roughly one in ten of your total posts and comments, following the old 9:1 mental model. It is no longer an official Reddit policy, but it is still the norm most active subreddits and their moderators lean on when judging whether an account is a genuine participant.
Can I post a launch idea in any subreddit that allows self-promotion?
Check the specific rules first. Some communities that allow promotion still cap it, commonly to roughly once every couple of months per account, and require you to disclose your affiliation with the product. Others confine all self-promotion to a single designated weekly thread rather than the main feed.
What if a good idea doesn't fit the subreddit's format?
Rephrase it, or pick a different idea. A feedback idea posted as a statement into a Q&A-only community, for example, gets removed on format alone regardless of how well it's written. Match the idea to what the community's rules actually allow before you post it.
Should I reuse the same idea across several subreddits?
Use it as a starting point, not a script. Rewrite the title and body for each community's norms, and consider whether the same goal even fits every subreddit you're posting to. An identical post fired at several subreddits in a short window is also one of the clearest spam signatures Reddit's systems look for.
How do I turn one of these ideas into an actual draft?
Paste the idea, your goal, and the subreddit you're targeting into the Reddit Post Generator. It returns several title options tuned to that subreddit's voice, a full draft, and flags for things like a link in the body or ad-speak that could get the post removed.
I've gone quiet on Reddit for months. Which idea should I start with?
Start in the re-engage section, not the launch section. A short, honest post acknowledging the gap and re-opening a conversation rebuilds standing faster than reappearing with a pitch, and it costs nothing in terms of your promotional ratio.
Is this list specific to any one platform like SaaS or e-commerce?
No, the seven goals apply to any founder posting about their own project. The specific wording in brackets, like [your niche] or [category], is meant to be swapped for whatever you're actually building.