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r/imadethis: rules, promo tolerance & best time to post

open to promo (9/10) · tone: Casual, encouraging, and celebratory of personal projects—people share wins with genuine enthusiasm and expect honest feedback without corporate polish.

Can you promote in r/imadethis?

Relatively open: clearly-disclosed, genuinely useful product mentions are usually tolerated here — read the rules and stay helpful-first anyway.

r/imadethis is a welcoming, creator-first community where self-promotion is the entire point—users celebrate indie projects, tools, games, and experiments with radical transparency and authenticity. The community rewards makers who share their genuine problem-solving journey and ask for real feedback, not polished marketing. Mod presence is light; social norms (honest sharing, linking working products, avoiding hype) enforce quality organically.

• DO lead with the personal "why" or frustration that motivated building
• DO include a working link, demo, or screenshot
• DO ask for honest/blunt feedback explicitly if you want it
• DO highlight if it's free or the pricing model upfront
• DO keep titles casual and unpretentious ("I made..." not "Announcing...")
• DON'T bury the product link or make it hard to try
• DON'T oversell or use corporate/marketing speak
• DON'T post pure monetization pitches without a genuine product or story
• DON'T spam repeat posts of the same project without substantive updates

New to this? Read how to promote without getting banned and the Reddit self-promotion rules before you post here.

Best time to post in r/imadethis

Based on when this community's recent top & hot posts were created: 08:00–12:00 UTC · weekends do well. Re-compute it live →

What this community complains about

Recurring pain points in recent threads — each one is a conversation your product might belong in:

• Lack of users or traction for new projects
• Uncertainty about product-market fit
• Desire for blunt, constructive feedback
• Frustration with existing solutions (motivates DIY builds)
• Transitioning from B2B to B2C/consumer products

How locals talk

I madeI builtI createdjust launchedside projecttoolfree apphonest feedbackbackstorygot tired of

Using a community's own vocabulary is the difference between reading as a member and reading as a marketer.

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