[soared]

Agreed on #1. Once youre a legitimate member of a subreddit, post a beta version of your site. If it actually provides value and is useful (and you are not shilling), people should love it.

Here is an example: https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/qshpov/i_started_ma...

522 votes and 51 comments on a relatively small subreddit put it in near the top for a day or two. Idea validated.

[codingdave]

Did any of that traffic become a paying customer?

My experience has been that reddit is great for validation. Traffic and kudos. Compliments and constructive critique. But almost no traffic from reddit resulted in people willing to sign up and pay money.

Now, admittedly, I sold my profitable side project a couple years back. Maybe the trends have changed - so I'm curious whether reddit users are now actually potential customers, or is it still just good for traffic?

[nojs]

> Once youre a legitimate member of a subreddit

This part is important. I’ve been caught out on Reddit sharing things I’ve built, expecting a “Show HN” type of response but shot down for promoting a product. Unlike here, most people on Reddit aren’t builders and mods tend to have a heavy hand for anything promotional (even if it’s free and you think it’s useful).