Posting your startup in r/alphaandbetausers
Yes. r/alphaandbetausers 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.
Founders create reciprocal testing threads where they explicitly offer to give honest feedback on others' work in exchange for feedback on their own. The winning angle emphasizes mutual commitment and real usage over one-way asks for beta testers.
Self-promotion rules
Self-promotion is welcome here, but only within a mutual testing/feedback exchange framework. Posts should invite genuine reciprocal engagement—offer to test others' work if you want feedback on yours, or create a thread where people commit to actually trying each other's projects rather than just asking for testers.
Post templates that get approved
Founders create reciprocal testing threads where they explicitly offer to give honest feedback on others' work in exchange for feedback on their own. The winning angle emphasizes mutual commitment and real usage over one-way asks for beta testers.
drop your project and i'll actually use it this week — here's mine
I'm going to spend a couple hours tomorrow trying whatever you share below, and I'd love honest notes back on mine. I'm only picking projects where the creator is willing to do the same.