Can I share my own product?
Only in the Friday Show and Tell thread. Everywhere else, “No self-promotion or spam” applies.
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r/ProductManagement rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/ProductManagement: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 282,638
- Verified
- September 29, 2026
- Category
- Product managers and product founders
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- No self-promotion or spam: https://web.archive.org/web/20240509074349/https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion The exception to this rule is the Friday Show and Tell thread.
- Post career related comment in the quarterly thread: Questions about how to move into product management, including requests for resume reviews, and interview questions must be posted in the quarterly thread. It's stickied at the top. This also includes deciding between offers, what job next, and all other career-related questions. It also includes posts with sankey charts about your job searches.
- Follow Rediquette: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette
- No research, product or otherwise: Specifically conducting product research, even if there is no self-promotion, isn't allowed. Nor is academic research without advance approval. The exception to this is when posting a project to the Friday Show and Tell thread.
- No AI Generated Posts: this includes top level posts and comments
- No off-topic posts, low quality posts, or memes: This may include posts on topics that have been repeated too frequently
- No posts about how to get started as a PM: If you are getting started as a PM, use the search function and the wiki.
- Post rants in the weekly rant thread: Post rants in the weekly rant thread
- Moderators Discretion: Not all content neatly falls into one of the other rules. Moderators can remove any post that they believe isn't contributing to the community and discussion of the practice of product management
Works well
- A text post written by you about a product decision you made and what you learned, ending with a real question for working product managers.
- A plain description of a problem you hit while shipping something, told as an experience rather than a pitch, with no links.
- A comment that answers someone's process question in detail, using your own words and your own experience.
- A project share posted inside the Friday Show and Tell thread, following whatever format that thread asks for.
- A rant about stakeholders or roadmap chaos saved for the weekly rant thread.
Avoid
- Posting a link to your product or landing page outside the Friday Show and Tell thread, which trips “No self-promotion or spam”.
- Asking the community to fill in a survey or answer product research questions, banned by “No research, product or otherwise”.
- Publishing anything written by an AI tool, because “No AI Generated Posts” covers top level posts and comments.
- Asking how to get started in product management instead of using the search function and the wiki, which breaks “No posts about how to get started as a PM”.
- Posting a resume review, job search, or offer question as a normal post, because “Post career related comment in the quarterly thread” sends all of that to the stickied quarterly thread.
- Sharing a rant as a top level post, since “Post rants in the weekly rant thread” is where those belong.
What r/ProductManagement Is For
This community is for the practice of product management. People here post about the day to day work of being a product manager, and the discussion is meant to serve people who do that job. The rules carve out a few special lanes. Career questions like switching into product management, resume reviews, interview questions, and choosing between offers all go in the stickied quarterly thread. Rants go in the weekly rant thread. And anyone who wants to show off a project gets one home, the Friday Show and Tell thread. So this is a working room for practitioners, with tidy side doors for job talk, venting, and showing your work.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
The rule that decides everything for a founder is “No self-promotion or spam”, which bans sharing your own stuff with one written exception, the Friday Show and Tell thread. “No research, product or otherwise” matters just as much, because asking people to test your product or fill in a survey counts as research even if you never link anything. “No AI Generated Posts” means every word of your post and your comments has to be written by you. “Post career related comment in the quarterly thread” sends anything about jobs, resumes, or offers to one stickied thread, so keep that out of your main feed. “No posts about how to get started as a PM” removes beginner questions that a founder might use as a soft entry point. “No off-topic posts, low quality posts, or memes” gives the room a quality floor, and “Moderators Discretion” means anything that does not clearly serve the practice of product management can still be removed.
What To Post
The safest and most welcome post is a plain text post, written by you, about a real product management problem you have lived through. Think of a decision you made, a tradeoff you weighed, or a way of working you changed, told as a story and finished with a genuine question for people who do this job. There is nothing to sell in that shape, so it fits the community cleanly. When you have something you built, the written home for it is the Friday Show and Tell thread, so wait for that day and follow the thread format. Outside of posting, thoughtful comments on other people's posts are the best way to earn a name here, as long as you write them yourself. Keep everything on topic, which for this room means the practice of product management, not your growth numbers or your launch. If you have ever wanted to vent about stakeholders, that is fine too, but only in the weekly rant thread.
What To Avoid
The obvious one is dropping a link to your product in a normal post, since “No self-promotion or spam” removes it, and the only written exception is the Friday Show and Tell thread. Asking people to take a survey, join a beta, or answer product research questions is also out, because “No research, product or otherwise” bans that even with no link attached. Do not paste AI-written text into a post or a comment, because “No AI Generated Posts” covers both. Keep career questions like resume reviews, offer comparisons, and how to break into product management out of the main feed, since “Post career related comment in the quarterly thread” sends those to the stickied quarterly thread. “No posts about how to get started as a PM” removes beginner posts, and the rules point newcomers to the search function and the wiki instead. Rants belong in the weekly rant thread, not the main feed. And “No off-topic posts, low quality posts, or memes” covers repeated topics and low effort content, while “Moderators Discretion” lets the team remove anything else they feel is not contributing.
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Common questions about r/ProductManagement
Can I run a survey or ask for product feedback?
No. “No research, product or otherwise” bans product research even when there is no self-promotion attached.
Can I draft my post with an AI tool?
No. “No AI Generated Posts” bans AI content in both posts and comments, so write everything yourself.
Where do career and job questions go?
In the stickied quarterly thread at the top of the community. Regular posts about jobs get removed.
Are memes or repeated topics allowed?
No. “No off-topic posts, low quality posts, or memes” covers them, and it also covers topics repeated too frequently.
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