Subreddit guide
r/Entrepreneur prohibits using the community to sell, promote, recruit, solicit investment, or drive traffic anywhere — no dropped URLs, no asking users to DM you, no pointing at your profile. You must participate meaningfully in other posts' comments before posting yourself, and AI-generated posts or comments are explicitly banned.
Zero promotion of any kind — and you must engage in comments before you may post.
No numeric karma threshold, but the rules require meaningful comment participation before your first post — a de-facto account-history gate.
Digest of the subreddit's published rules as of 2026-07-02, focused on what matters for founders doing outreach. Always re-check the live rules before posting.
Promotion rules limit how you can talk — they don't stop buyers from talking. These are the phrase patterns that signal a potential customer in this community:
Post angles that consistently land inside this community's rules — framed as value, not promotion.
It scores every new post for buying intent, flags each subreddit's self-promo policy before you engage, and never sends a message for you — you reply in your own voice, which is exactly what these communities' rules reward.
The rules prohibit promotion in every form — including indirect forms like telling people to check your profile or DM you. What survives moderation is genuine discussion: answering questions from experience without naming or linking your product.
Most likely the participation rule: r/Entrepreneur requires meaningful comment engagement before you post. Generic questions ("how do I make $X?") and AI-written content are also removed on sight.
Yes — as a listening channel. Buyers describe pain points and ask for approaches constantly. The value is in finding those conversations and replying helpfully as a person, not in broadcasting your product.
Direct promotion banned — monthly Share Your Startup thread is the only exception.
r/smallbusinessProduct mentions removed on sight (policy tightened June 2026) — weekly promo thread is the only outlet.
r/EntrepreneurRideAlongNo explicit promo ban in the 3 rules — but the culture rewards journey stories, not ads.
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