Your Reddit launch post keeps getting removed. Here is what to do instead

Why it keeps happening

Most subreddits that look like good launch venues, r/SaaS, r/SideProject, r/webdev, run automated filters tied to account age and karma, on top of manual mod review. A brand-new account posting a link to a product it built reads, to both the filter and the mod, exactly like spam, because that’s what most of it is. It isn’t personal, and it isn’t really about your product. It’s about the account posting it.

What doesn’t work

• Making a new account solely to post the launch, then never returning to it
• Posting the same link across ten subreddits in one afternoon
• Asking friends to upvote quickly, which trips vote-manipulation detection almost immediately
• Rewriting the post as a "question" that’s obviously just the pitch with a question mark at the end

What actually works: warm the account first

If Reddit is a venue you want long-term, the account needs a real history before it needs a launch post. Comment on threads related to your space for a few weeks. Answer questions where you genuinely know the answer. By the time you post about your own product, the account looks like a person who was already there, not a drive-by.

Show HN

Hacker News’s Show HN is built for exactly this and doesn’t require pre-existing karma the way subreddits functionally do. Write the post the way you’d describe the project to another engineer: what it does, why you built it, and what’s rough about it. HN readers are unusually forgiving of "this is early and incomplete" framing and unusually allergic to marketing copy, so lean toward the former.

Indie Hackers

Indie Hackers is explicitly a build-in-public community, so a launch post there isn’t treated as an intrusion the way it can be on Reddit. Posting your milestones, including the boring or discouraging ones, before the actual launch tends to get more genuine engagement than a single announcement dropped cold.

X, as a running log

A single launch tweet competes with everything else in a feed for about an hour. A running thread, posted over weeks, showing the problem you’re solving and progress on it, gives people multiple chances to notice and gives you a reason to tag people who showed up in your own research as having the problem.

Use Reddit as a venue, not a data source

None of this means avoid Reddit. It means treat it as one channel among several, arrived at honestly, rather than the first and only stop. The same is true in reverse for validating the idea in the first place: Reddit threads are useful evidence, but they’re one of six places worth checking, alongside X, Hacker News, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, and dev forums, which is the whole premise behind how NoCrickets searches.