I got removed from Reddit 12

times before my SaaS made $9,000 in a month. Here’s the honest story.

For a long time I thought Reddit just hated founders.

I’d spend weeks building, write a post, hit publish, and watch it disappear within minutes. My first posts were all the same: a link, a feature list, and no context. They got removed, ignored, or downvoted. One of them got me banned from a community I actually liked.

Then I did something boring. I stopped posting and started reading.

I read the rules of every subreddit before touching the post button. Some only allow self-promo in weekly threads, and some want a disclosure. Once I actually followed that, a lot of problems went away.

I stopped chasing the big subreddits and looked for small ones where people were already describing the exact problem my product solves. I answered their questions with no links at all. I did that for about [X weeks] before I posted anything of my own.

When I finally posted, I didn’t pitch.…