How to market on r/SaaS
Can you promote on r/SaaS?
Yes, within limits. You can mention what you've made when it's relevant and genuinely helpful. Posts that exist to sell get removed. What the rules say:
“Promotion is ok here, but please don’t mention your SaaS/blog/company unless it’s relevant and actually helpful for someone reading.”
“Direct sales that are unsolicited are forbidden as well.”
Rule 2: No Direct Sales Or Non-Productive Self-Promotion
The rules
As the moderators wrote them, shortened where they run long.
- Submission GuidelinesFollow 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…
- No Direct Sales Or Non-Productive Self-PromotionPromotion 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…
- Posting SaaS Relevant Content OnlyPlease 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…
- Blog Posts RulesYou 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…
- Be Kind And Supportive — Criticise Ideas, Not PeopleAt 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.
- Other Bad BehaviourDoxing－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,…
- PoliticizingWe don't allow: Moralizing issues Petitions or calls-to-action Political discussions Political baiting Soapboxing
Full text on Reddit: r/SaaS rules.
What people asked this week
r/SaaS moves fast: its last 193 posts only go back 26 hours, and 73 of them asked a question or for a recommendation. Here are 12, newest first.
- How do you guys market your products?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- Why are businesses paying for 6 different SaaS tools when one could do the job?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- Are cybersecurity vendors losing deals because they can't see what's happening with their channel partners?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- Would you like to run your own AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex) directly on WhatsApp?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- Has anyone else started running arguments through AI? I just did and the results were wildr/SaaS · 24 Oct
- What is a SaaS metric that looks great on paper but can actually be misleading?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- How do I get my first 100 users?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- Anyone else frustrated when trying to properly export Claude conversations (full content + model reasoning)?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- Is anyone still celebrating Programmers’ Day on October 24th?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- how are you pricing/making the margins work for your ai app?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- What if your AI business advisor is confidently wrong? I’m building Nextep to solve that.r/SaaS · 24 Oct
- How many apps with paying users are you maintaining right now?r/SaaS · 24 Oct
How to show up here without getting banned
- Help first, mention later. Answer questions on r/SaaS for a while before you bring up your own product, and when you do, say you made it.
- Use the weekly feedback thread. From the rules: “Feedback requests must be posted in the weekly feedback thread!”
- Be careful with links. The rules are specific: “The only way a link is allowed is at the end of the post (“Originally posted here”), unless highly relevant (don't abuse this).”
- Keep it in the thread. Don't move people to DMs to pitch them: “No PM requests please (unless people really request it), and no promotion for other communities outside Reddit.”
- Answer questions. 38% of recent posts on r/SaaS ask a question or for a recommendation. A useful answer is the safest way to get noticed.
- Be early. r/SaaS gets about 181 new posts a day, so a question is buried within hours. The first useful answers get the attention.
More on how this works across Reddit: Reddit's self-promotion rules, explained and the full Reddit marketing playbook.
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- How to market on r/EntrepreneurRideAlong: founders sharing their progress, numbers and lessons as they build.
- How to market on r/startup: first-time founders learning how to validate, build and launch.
- How to market on r/indiehackers: bootstrapped makers building profitable products on their own.
Questions
Can I post my startup on r/SaaS?+
Only within limits. You can mention what you've made when it's relevant and genuinely helpful. Posts that exist to sell get removed. Rule 2 says: “Promotion is ok here, but please don’t mention your SaaS/blog/company unless it’s relevant and actually helpful for someone reading.”
How active is r/SaaS?+
r/SaaS has about 241k members and averaged 181 new posts a day over the last four weeks. Of its latest 193 posts, 73 asked a question or for a recommendation.
Does r/SaaS allow links?+
With conditions. Rule 4 says: “The only way a link is allowed is at the end of the post (“Originally posted here”), unless highly relevant (don't abuse this).”
What do people ask about on r/SaaS?+
Recent examples: “How do you guys market your products?”, “Why are businesses paying for 6 different SaaS tools when one could do the job?” and “Are cybersecurity vendors losing deals because they can't see what's happening with their…”. The full list of this week's questions is on this page and refreshes daily.