Can you promote in r/saas?
Discussions and useful links for SaaS owners, online business owners, and more.
The short answer
Participate organically with helpful, on-topic contributions, disclose your affiliation up front, avoid links or solicitation unless strictly necessary, and follow the 1-post-per-60-days and any mod-approval requirements for surveys/AMAs.
What works here
- Answer questions with useful, non-salesy advice
- Mention your product sparingly with clear 'Founder here' disclosure
- Share blog content if the main ideas are in the post and link only at the end
What gets posts removed
- Posting to solicit customers, leads, testers, donations, or funding
- Posting repeated promotional content or using alt accounts
- Sharing obfuscated/shortened links, tracking links, or blackhat promo tools
- Posting surveys, AMAs or polls without mod approval
Where this comes from
Disclosure and posting limit
Promotion allowed occasionally but requires clear affiliation disclosure and is limited to 1 mention every 60 days; accounts focused on promotion are removed.
No solicitation or lead gen
Posts focused on selling, soliciting clients, fundraising, or lead generation will be removed and can get banned.
Value required; no naked links
Content must provide context and value; 'naked' links or low-effort posts are removed; blog links allowed only if post contains main ideas and link at end.
Surveys/AMAs need mod approval
Research posts, surveys, or product-validation polls require mod approval and will be rejected if used for lead gen.
Prohibitions on promotional tool types
Promotion of SaaS for advertising/promotion/automation (tools that generate or automate outreach) is explicitly banned.
Official rules of r/saas
- 01Submission Guidelines
- 02Posting SaaS Relevant Content Only
- 03No Vendor Spam
- 04No Low-Effort / Low-Quality Content
- 05No selling, soliciting, or fundraising
- 06AMA / Surveys / Polls require approval
- 07No obfuscated, shortened or indirect URLs
- 08No Personal Information (Doxing)
- 09Be excellent to eachother
- 10No " I'll review/audit/feedback/test/roast your product " posts
- 11No Promotional or Advertising SaaS
Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed June 2026. Rules change; the community itself is always the source of truth.
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