r/microsaas
A community for people building deliberately small software businesses. The idea is excellent and the execution is thinner than the name's reputation implies — the discussion here is lighter than most people expect.
What the numbers say
r/microsaas sees a steady flow of posts — about 21 a day — with little discussion — most posts are barely read. A median of three comments means most posts get an acknowledgement and little more. It is a smaller, calmer r/SaaS rather than a different kind of place.
| Measure | r/microsaas |
|---|---|
| Members | 208k |
| Created | 2017 |
| Posts per day | 21 |
| Median comments | 3 |
| Text posts | 100% |
| Accepts | Links and text |
| Rules total | 6 |
| Rules on promotion | 2 |
What these numbers mean and why subscriber count is the wrong one is explained on the directory hub.
Good idea, quiet room
r/microsaas attracts a specific and interesting person: someone building a focused product for a small market, usually alone, usually bootstrapped. If that is your customer, the targeting here is unusually clean — there is very little dilution from people who are not that.
The limitation is scale. At roughly twenty posts a day with a median of three comments, you are looking at a handful of genuine conversations per week, and most of them are about building rather than buying. It is worth monitoring precisely because it is cheap to monitor — the volume is low enough that reading it costs you minutes — but it should not be anyone's primary channel.
The tone rewards specificity. Vague "how do I get users" posts are ignored; a post with real numbers attached gets engagement well above the median.
Promotion rules, in the moderators' own words
2 of r/microsaas's 6 rules govern promotion, advertising or soliciting, quoted verbatim:
No Low-Effort Self-Promotion
You may share your Micro SaaS, but it must add value. Purely promotional links without context, "Build in Public" updates with no actual insights, and repetitive link-dropping will be removed. If you share your product, you must include the backstory, tech stack, revenue (if comfortable), or a speci
No Unethical Tactics or Black Hat
Do not post, promote, or ask for unethical growth hacks. This includes buying fake reviews, spamming scraped emails, astroturfing, or stealing intellectual property.
Snapshot only — check the live rules before posting.
When to post in r/microsaas
Hours whose posts drew the most discussion, across the 100 most recent:
- 14:00 UTC (9am ET / 6am PT) — averaged 18.5 comments per post
- 08:00 UTC (3am ET / 12am PT) — averaged 12.2 comments per post
- 09:00 UTC (4am ET / 1am PT) — averaged 9.6 comments per post
A tie-breaker, not a rule — see why timing matters less than you would like.
Who should watch this subreddit
Anyone selling tools, infrastructure or services to solo software founders. Also useful as a low-cost read for competitive intelligence in the bootstrapped tooling space.
Related communities: r/SaaS, r/indiehackers, r/SideProject, r/EntrepreneurRideAlong.
Frequently asked questions
Can you promote your business in r/microsaas?
Limited. The subreddit carries explicit self-promotion restrictions and the community is small enough that repeat promoters are recognised quickly. Occasional, disclosed mentions inside genuinely useful posts are tolerated; anything resembling a launch announcement is not.
Is r/microsaas good for finding leads?
Either almost nobody reads it, or promotion is banned outright. Precise audience, low volume — expect a handful of relevant posts a week rather than a stream.
How active is r/microsaas?
About 21 posts a day from 208k members, with a median of 3 comments per post — little discussion — most posts are barely read.
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