r/startups is a subreddit with 2.1M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses startup, promote, struggling, looking for a cofounder, and looking for a co founder, and they frequently recommend/review programming languages, banking, and email marketing service.
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Popular Themes in r/startups
#1
Advice Requests
: "Help on breaking into industry. I will not promote"
17 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Startup failed. $100k in GCP credits expiring in 45 days. How would you monetize? (I will not promote)"
4 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Building demand taught me a hard lesson about customer trust. I will not promote."
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "I want to build a free startup accelerator for founders. Talk me out of it. (i will not promote)"
2 posts
#5
Money Talk
: "I have 100k to spend on marketing the next 3 months - I will not promote"
2 posts
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I can build the product. I clearly cannot sell it. Looking for a marketing co-founder. I will not promote"
2 posts
#7
Opportunities
: "Is this a real business opportunity or not? (i will not promote)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/startups
#1
Startup
: "Why do the majority of Startups sound so useless? I will not promote"
114 posts
#2
Promote
: "I am starting to hate my own company that I have built myself - I will not Promote"
92 posts
#3
Struggling
63 posts
#4
Looking For A Cofounder
35 posts
#5
Looking For A Co Founder
: "[ Removed by moderator ]"
27 posts
#6
Founder
: "I will not promote - Should we raise and hire or keep bootstrapping and look for another technical coFounder?"
26 posts
#7
Idea
: ""I will not promote": Co-founder not responsive again, should I continue driving the Idea as the CTO?"
16 posts
#8
Looking For A Technical Cofounder
15 posts
#9
Looking For A Startup
15 posts
#10
Tired
13 posts
Products Discussed in r/startups
Programming Languages
30 reviews
#1
Laravel
5.0★ from 8 reviews
#2
FreeCodeCamp
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Svelte
4.5★ from 2 reviews
Banking
25 reviews
#1
Mercury
5.0★ from 5 reviews
#2
Brex
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
HSBC
4.0★ from 1 review
Email Marketing Service
24 reviews
#1
Mailchimp
2.8★ from 4 reviews
#2
Moosend
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#3
Amazon SES
3.5★ from 2 reviews
Flair Used in r/startups
#1
I will not promote
: "[ Removed by moderator ]"
174 posts
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Yearly
+219k members(11.8%)
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Last updated: June 10, 2026