Posting about your projects on Reddit?

I've posted my app (https://doseapp.io) on eleven Reddit subreddits and it yielded really good results. My posts received over 1,800 upvotes in total and generated over 10,000 website visits. Only one post was removed by mods.

1. Find subreddits you can add value to. Read the rules of every subreddit and make sure you can post an ad. You want to find multiple smaller communities (less than 50k) because fewer posts increase your chances of getting #1.
2. Customize the posts based on the community interests and problems your app can solve.
3. It's important to get the post to top 1 or 2, so it appears on users' feeds. Maybe you can ask a few friends to upvote the posts?
4. Engage with the community, ask them for feedback, and respond to every comment. Listen to users' needs and improve your product regularly.

Reddit is the best place to market online if you grok the culture. I got 350 email subscribers to my screencasts business via four posts to subreddits related to the topics of my screencasts (vim, web-dev, Rails, Laravel IIRC)

The way I approached it was to frame it as a discussion, asking the community:

"hey based on my situation and background as a programmer entrepreneur who has lived from his own web-app for 10 years, what would you most like me to produce videos about?"

I didn't leave any link to my channel in the main post — in fact I didn't even have a channel at this time. Instead I waited until someone commented and asked where they could watch my videos, and then I'd reply to that comment saying I'd alert them once I released them if they added their email to this Google form.

Basically this was validation and lead-generation at the same time.

Syften has some great content about this. I'd recommend reading through this post (it's pretty short): https://syften.com/blog/post/reddit/

I've just about all but given up on reddit. I tried a similar approach, same result, so decided to do it the "right way" and run an ad campaign, and the ad got downvoted to hell (while they won't show negative votes, you can see the %).

One last strategy might be:

1. write down all the problems your tool solves
2. track the subreddit for people asking for help solving those problems
3. offer some decent advice, and sprinkle in your app at the end -> "Alternatively, this is why i created Page Master"

• Post it in classic app subreddits, like sideproject or whatever

• Post in smaller subreddits, your link will linger longer in the newest and even in the frontpage.

• Post your link in the comments section of relevant posts. It looks more natural and a lot of users will find it useful. And you can do it again too. Just find suitable comments that are not buried too low in the page.

Unfortunately it s a chicken and egg problem how to go from being considered "spam" to being considered "useful".

Hi! I post on Reddit every day with a TLDR of our daily blog and a link to original post. Some like it some don't but a lot of people visit the blog. I also try to post things that I found online to give back to the community. But even then people comment like: Did you do this and trying to sell it to us? About 50-60 people upvote when I post a resource. My advice is don't post a link every day but also don't care about hate comments.

Reddit is very tricky but I've had a bit of success on it.

A couple tips:

1. The nichier the subreddit the better. The nichier ones will be smaller, but as you experienced, bigger subreddits are moderated more strictly. They will also contain members who are much more passionate about whatever problem you're trying to solve.
2. Ask for advice. Don't promote unless you know it won't be an issue.
3. Make sure you read the rules well before posting. (Obvious, but people who are new to reddit may not know about it)

I wrote a bit about posting a product of mine to subreddits it here: https://atay.me/posts/tastejury-launch/

The reddit community contributed thousands of entries into my product, so when it goes right, it can go very right!

Would you mind sharing the link to your post? Maybe people who have been successful at reddit marketing can share some tips on how to get it right.

I love Reddit for promoting stuff, I believe if you do the promotion in the right way then it's worthy.