Subreddit Rule Radar

Help indie makers find the right niche subreddits and decode their rules to avoid bans

Problem

Indie developers trying cold-start promotion on Reddit face high barriers: keyword search only surfaces big subreddits while precise niche ones are hard to find; each subreddit has different rules—some ban self-promotion, some only allow text posts, some require flair—so a new account gets its post removed or banned easily. One maker built a tool for exactly this after getting burned, and another built a karma-watching tool, showing ongoing demand for Reddit operations.

Solution

Enter your product keywords and landing page; the tool mines relevant subreddits (via commenter overlap and topic similarity), scrapes and structures each sub's rules (promotion policy, post format, flair requirements), and generates an actionable posting playbook with a pre-post compliance check.

Users

Indie developers doing overseas cold start, SaaS founders going global, content marketers

MVP

Keyword-to-subreddit recommendation list; rules summary and promotion policy flag per sub; pre-post compliance self-check (paste your post text to assess risk); one-click export of a Markdown strategy report

Revenue

Free basic lookup; subscription unlocks deep analysis, daily rule-change monitoring, batch sub comparison; pay-per-report option

Why now

AI makes building products faster but distribution harder, so community operations become the indie hacker's bottleneck; existing tools only do karma tracking or generic social management—nobody specifically solves 'find the right sub + read the rules'