Reddit self-promotion risk scorer
reddit is the best early channel for a consumer app and the easiest one to get permanently removed from. this scores your account and your post against the things that actually get people banned. I built it out of losing more than forty accounts finding the line.
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What actually gets you banned
not selling. reddit is full of founders talking about their products without trouble. what gets punished is the pattern: a new account, no history in the community, a link in the post, and a feed that contains nothing else.
moderators and automated filters both look at your account, not just your post. that is why a good post from a bad looking account disappears while a worse post from a real member stays up.
The version that works
participate for weeks before you ever mention the product. answer questions in your category where you genuinely know the answer. let the account look like a person with an interest, because that is what it should be.
when you do mention what you built, do it where it answers something someone asked. the first thousand users at ZuAI came from that pattern, and it is slow on purpose. the slowness is what makes it survive.
Numbers tell you what. They do not tell you what to do.
bring your real numbers to the breakdown call and leave with a plan for them. free, no pitch deck.
Common questions
Can I just use several accounts?
no, and this is the mistake I made repeatedly. reddit is good at connecting accounts through behaviour, and when it does you lose all of them at once rather than one. I lost more than forty accounts learning that lesson so you do not have to.
Are reddit ads a way around this?
they are a legitimate separate channel, not a workaround. ads reach people without touching your organic standing, but they cost more and convert differently. run both, and keep the organic account clean regardless of what the ads are doing.
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Bring one real growth problem. Leave with the fix.
the breakdown call is free. no pitch deck, no agency handoff.