r/LifeProTips rules, stats, and what to post

r/LifeProTips is a community for sharing tips that improve your life in one way or another. People post a single useful tip, formatted a specific way, and the community reads it to pick up something practical. The rules make it clear this is not a place for questions, because tip requests belong at r/AskLifeProTips instead. It is also not a place for ads, and the moderators say outright that they remove posts that are uncivil, badly formatted, common sense, cover banned topics, or promote products. So the person who does well here is someone with a genuinely useful, non obvious, well explained tip that helps people in daily life.

The rule that decides everything for a founder is “No advertisements or product recommendations.”, because it bans tips that advertise anything, recommendations of products or services, requests for recommendations, and even tips about using a commercial product for its intended purpose. That closes almost every door a marketer usually tries to walk through. “Post Requirements, Titles and Flair.” is the survival rule, since your post must begin with LPT, carry a flair, and explain the tip and the problem it solves thoroughly. “Do not post tips that could be considered common sense, common courtesy, unethical, or illegal.” sets a high bar for how useful your tip has to be. “Do not post tips that are based on spurious, unsubstantiated, or anecdotal claims.” means a tip that worked for you once is not enough. “Prohibited Topics.” bans a long list including religion, politics, relationships, law and legislation, parenting, driving, medicine or hygiene, mental health, and ChatGPT or AI services, and the list is not exhaustive. “Content that trolls and/or doesn't substantially contribute to the discussion may be removed.” lets moderators remove anything low quality, low effort, or that appears to be generated or altered by AI. “Do not post tips in reaction to other posts. Reposts may be removed.” pushes you away from comment bait and repeats. Finally, “LPT requests should be made at r/AskLifeProTips.” means asking the community for advice belongs elsewhere.

Honestly, there is almost no direct marketing play here, and that is the point of this guide. The only path I see is the long one. If you have knowledge from building your product, you can sometimes extract a tip that is genuinely useful on its own, never mentions a product, and solves a real everyday problem. It would need to start with LPT, carry the right flair, explain the tip and the problem it solves thoroughly, and not fall into common sense territory or any banned topic. It cannot rest on anecdote alone. Note that if your tip is about AI in any way, it is banned outright here, so that whole angle is off the table. Treat a successful post as reputation, not traffic, because the promotion rule means you cannot point at anything you sell.

Do not promote anything, because “No advertisements or product recommendations.” covers ads, recommendations, requests for recommendations, and tips about using a commercial product for its intended purpose. Do not skip the formatting, because “Post Requirements, Titles and Flair.” requires the LPT prefix, a flair, and a thorough explanation of the tip and the problem it solves. Do not post common sense or common courtesy material, per “Do not post tips that could be considered common sense, common courtesy, unethical, or illegal.”. Do not post anything resting on anecdote or shaky claims, per “Do not post tips that are based on spurious, unsubstantiated, or anecdotal claims.”. Stay clear of the banned topics in “Prohibited Topics.”, which cover religion, politics, relationships, law and legislation, parenting, driving, medicine or hygiene, mental health, and ChatGPT or AI services, with a warning that the list is not exhaustive and moderators may remove anything off spirit. Do not post AI generated or AI altered content, since “Content that trolls and/or doesn't substantially contribute to the discussion may be removed.” covers it. Do not react to other posts or repost topics, per “Do not post tips in reaction to other posts. Reposts may be removed.”. And do not ask for tips here at all, because “LPT requests should be made at r/AskLifeProTips.” sends requests to that other community. Keep it civil too, per “No rude, offensive, racist, homophobic, sexist, aggressive, or hateful posts/comments.”.

The banned topics list caught my attention, because it names ChatGPT or AI services right next to politics and medicine, which tells me this community has been burned by AI generated tip spam. “No advertisements or product recommendations.” is the strictest anti promotion rule I have seen in a while, since it even blocks tips about using a commercial product for its intended purpose. If you work in AI or SaaS, my honest read is that this is a place to earn trust with a genuinely useful tip, or to sit this one out entirely.