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r/AppBusiness rules, stats, and what to post

A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/AppBusiness: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.

Members
153.2K
Community age
Created Feb 2014, 12 years
To post
No minimum in the rules
To comment
No minimum in the rules
Self-promotion
Banned
Links
Not mentioned in the rules
Showcase posts
Friday only
Promo risk
HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts

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Rule summary

  • Must be relevant to App Business: You can post about anything related to app business including ideas, validation, development, marketing, launch, analytics, customer dev and ASO as long as it doesn’t conflict with any other rule.
  • No promotion of your own apps: We do not want this subreddit to turn into a tool for marketing. We will have a weekly app feedback thread on Friday, please use that for feedback.
  • No promotion of your Business: This subreddit is not meant for advertising your business/agency services. If your posting provides value in the form of information or valuable resources for appreneurs it will be allowed.

Works well

  • A written teardown of an ASO change you made and what you learned from it, shared as a lesson rather than a plug
  • A breakdown of a monetization experiment with the numbers and reasoning, framed as a resource for other founders
  • A question about pricing or user acquisition that invites discussion instead of pitching your own product
  • A useful resource like a checklist or template for app launch planning, offered free with no strings attached
  • Bringing your app to the Friday feedback thread with specific questions about what to improve
  • A post about customer development interviews for an app idea, focused on what you learned about the problem

Avoid

  • Posting a link to your own app anywhere outside the Friday feedback thread
  • Advertising your agency or service in a post or comment
  • Writing a post that is really an advert dressed up as advice
  • Sharing a generic marketing listicle that has nothing to do with apps
  • Asking for app feedback on a random weekday instead of waiting for Friday
  • Dropping your app link in the comments of other people's posts

What r/AppBusiness Is For

This is a home for people building mobile app businesses, and the description names the crowd plainly: app founders, indie hackers, developers, and marketers. The stated topics give you the map of what counts as on topic, and they include app marketing, ASO, monetization, user acquisition, ideation, outsourcing, and testing and optimization. Rule one confirms the wide scope, saying you can post about anything related to app business including ideas, validation, development, marketing, launch, analytics, customer dev and ASO. So this is a business community first, not a place to show off downloads or celebrate a launch for its own sake.

Rules That Matter Before Posting

Three rules decide everything here. “Must be relevant to App Business” sets the floor, meaning your post has to touch the business side of apps like ideas, validation, development, marketing, launch, analytics, customer dev or ASO. “No promotion of your own apps” is the big one for founders, because it bans promoting your own apps anywhere except the weekly app feedback thread on Fridays. “No promotion of your Business” covers agencies and services, and it comes with one carve out: if your posting provides value in the form of information or valuable resources for appreneurs, it will be allowed.

What To Post

Write the post you would want to read as another app founder. A teardown of what your ASO experiments actually changed, a breakdown of a monetization test with real reasoning, or a lesson from a launch that went sideways all fit the stated topics. If you want to mention your business, lead with the resource, like a checklist or framework appreneurs can use without paying you a cent, because that is the exact carve out the rules allow. If you want feedback on your app, save it for the Friday thread and bring specific questions.

What To Avoid

The fastest way to get removed is promoting your own app outside the Friday feedback thread, and the moderator one liner says exactly that. Advertising your business or agency services is the second tripwire, especially a post that is really an advert wearing a tutorial costume. Off topic posts get removed too, so a generic marketing piece with no connection to app business does not survive rule one. And remember the rule one caveat, your post has to avoid conflicting with the other rules even if the topic itself is a perfect fit.

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Common questions about r/AppBusiness

Can I ever share my own app here?

Yes, but only inside the weekly app feedback thread that runs on Fridays.

Can I promote my agency or service?

Only if the post delivers real value through information or useful resources for appreneurs, not a pitch.

What topics count as app business?

Anything on the business side of apps: ideas, validation, development, marketing, launch, analytics, customer development, monetization, user acquisition, and ASO.

Can I post about ASO and user acquisition tactics?

Yes, the rules allow it as long as it does not conflict with the promotion rules.

Can I ask a general startup question that is not app specific?

The rules say posts must relate to app business, so keep it tied to building or growing an app.