Posting your startup in r/SideProject
Posts that lead with the technical challenge, personal motivation, or unexpected outcome—not the product itself. Top posts frame projects as solutions to real problems (hamster tracking, rat mapping, vector tracing) or share lessons learned. The best posts feel like 'here's what I built and why' rather than 'buy this.'
Self-promotion rules
No explicit self-promotion rules were fetched, but the subreddit clearly welcomes founders sharing their own projects. Posts should focus on the journey, technical problem-solving, or interesting outcome rather than a hard sell. Authenticity and a genuine story (learning, experimentation, or solving a real problem) are what drive engagement here.
Post templates that get approved
Posts that lead with the technical challenge, personal motivation, or unexpected outcome—not the product itself. Top posts frame projects as solutions to real problems (hamster tracking, rat mapping, vector tracing) or share lessons learned. The best posts feel like 'here's what I built and why' rather than 'buy this.'
i spent 3 months building a tool to fix one annoying part of my job—here's what broke along the way
Most productivity tools try to do everything, so they end up doing nothing well. I got frustrated enough with the core problem that I decided to just solve that one thing, even if it meant coding alone on weekends for months.