Posting your startup in r/SideProject
Yes. r/SideProject is one of the subreddits that lets founders share their own product, as long as you follow its self-promotion rules and give the community more than you take. The rules and the post formats that get approved are below.
Posts succeed by leading with a unique angle or story—either a clever creative concept (turning walks into maps, losing a character in a village), a personal narrative (building out of frustration, investing 1000+ hours), or a genuine technical achievement. The best posts show *why* the project exists before showing *what* it does.
Self-promotion rules
Self-promotion is welcome and expected—this is a subreddit for sharing side projects. Posts should focus on the creative process, technical achievement, or interesting story behind the project rather than a hard sales pitch. Show personality and context (why you built it, what problem it solves, what you learned) rather than just dropping a link.
Post templates that get approved
Posts succeed by leading with a unique angle or story—either a clever creative concept (turning walks into maps, losing a character in a village), a personal narrative (building out of frustration, investing 1000+ hours), or a genuine technical achievement. The best posts show *why* the project exists before showing *what* it does.
i spent 3 months building a tool to automate our invoice chaos. here's what broke along the way.
My co-founder and I were drowning in spreadsheets, so one weekend we decided to build something ridiculous—a single-page invoice processor that actually works. We launched it last month with zero users, and somehow people started using it.