r/sweatystartup is a subreddit with 209k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses business, looking for, struggling, cleaning, and clients, and they frequently recommend/review voip service, crm, and project management tool.
A hub for entrepreneurs of regular old fashioned businesses.
Popular Themes in r/sweatystartup
#1
Advice Requests
: "Some advice to prevent you from screwing yourself over for any job but specifically for Lawnmowing in this case"
29 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "College student with a free summer, 2k in savings, and a year to plan - side hustle ideas?"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Raised my prices by 60% and somehow got busier, trying to understand why."
8 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Renting out generators (or something similar). Sense check + more ideas..."
8 posts
#5
Money Talk
: "How much is a service business actually worth when you sell it? (broker breakdown)"
4 posts
#6
Opportunities
: "Which “boring” local service has the best repeat-customer potential?"
4 posts
#7
Self-Promotion
: "Splitting my maintenance company into two"
4 posts
Popular Topics in r/sweatystartup
#1
Business
: "The more my Business grows the less time I have to work on it"
51 posts
#2
Looking For
12 posts
#3
Struggling
10 posts
#4
Cleaning
: "Im 14 looking to start doing a trash can Cleaning thing any tips?"
8 posts
#5
Clients
7 posts
#6
Leads
: "spent 3 hours finding Leads last week. felt like i was back in 2012"
6 posts
#7
Start
5 posts
#8
Service Business
: "What part of running your Service Business still feels more manual than it should?"
5 posts
#9
Cleaning Business
: "Question for Cleaning Business owners"
4 posts
#10
Service
: "Thinking of starting a fence cleaning and staining business anyone have experience or advice"
4 posts
Products Discussed in r/sweatystartup
Voip Service
25 reviews
#1
Google Voice
3.8★ from 6 reviews
#2
Vonage
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
OpenPhone
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Crm
15 reviews
#1
Hubspot
3.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Housecall Pro
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Jobber
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Project Management Tool
13 reviews
#1
Trello
5.0★ from 3 reviews
#2
Notion
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#3
Asana
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Member Growth in r/sweatystartup
Yearly
+26k members(14.5%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026