Can you promote in r/upwork?
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The short answer
Do not promote or mention your product/company; participate as a regular user with neutral, non-promotional help and avoid links or recruitment.
What works here
- general discussion about Upwork
- sharing personal experience or troubleshooting without promoting tools
- link-free posts that reference an idea but not external guides
What gets posts removed
- posting product links, tools, or extensions
- soliciting clients or posting for-hire/hiring content
- sharing off-site guides, videos, or promotional AMAs
Where this comes from
View the current official rules on RedditNo hiring/finding work
Subreddit explicitly disallows posts looking to hire freelancers or be hired, blocking lead generation.
No outside promotion
Promotion of outside tools or extensions is disallowed due to spam/malicious concerns.
No off-site guides/videos
Offsite guides/videos are banned; even mentioning a website must avoid direct links.
No AMAs
AMA posts (often used for promotion) are explicitly banned.
Official rules of r/upwork
- 01Don't be an immense douchebag
- 02Off site guides are not allowed
- 03Hiring or finding work in this subreddit is not allowed.
- 04No Outside Promotion
- 05AMA Posts are NOT allowed
Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed July 17, 2026. Rules change; the official rules page is always the source of truth.
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