Reddit growth may fail because of approach, not the channel
For about six months, Reddit seemed useless for growing a SaaS product. Posts kept getting removed, karma limits felt random, and rules seemed built to keep builders out. The lesson was that Reddit is difficult, but the difficulty is not the same everywhere.
Some are like closed gates: active treat as a threat, and automod rules remove anything that looks promotional before a person reviews it. Those communities are genuinely hard places for a builder to contribute. Other communities still have active members but little active .
In those places, useful writing can stay visible. The hard part is finding those communities quickly, because checking each by hand can take hours.
Key points
- Reddit can be frustrating for SaaS promotion because posts may be removed quickly.
- Some have strict and automod rules that block .
- Other remain active even when is light.
- Useful content has a better chance of staying up in those less restrictive communities.
- Finding the right manually can take hours per community.