r/siliconvalley rules, stats, and what to post
Know the rules before you post. So easy grandma can do it.
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- Medium
- From the rules, not from removal counts
- Community age
- 17 years
- Since Nov 2008
About r/siliconvalley
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/siliconvalley: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.Checked from the r/siliconvalley rules on Reddit.
r/siliconvalley rules
No subreddit-specific rules were displayed on the public rules page when Rankhog verified it on 2026-10-22.
What to post in r/siliconvalley
What fits the room, and what gets removed.
Works well
- A plain question about living or working in a specific Silicon Valley town, like where founders in the area actually meet other people in person
- A short writeup of something you noticed about the real region, like how office space or commuting looks from your corner of the Bay Area
- A local event or meetup announcement that is genuinely open to people in the region, framed as an invitation rather than a promotion
- An honest observation about running a company in the area, written like a story you would tell a neighbor instead of a pitch
- A practical question that only locals can answer well, like neighborhood or commute advice for someone starting a job in the region
Avoid
- Posting anything about the HBO show Silicon Valley, including episode reactions, character talk, memes from the show, or news about the cast, because the moderators send show content to the dedicated subreddit
- Posting in this subreddit when you actually meant to post in the show's subreddit, which is an easy mistake to make since the names are so close
- Dropping a link to your product with no connection to the region, since the community is clearly organized around a place and a link with no local angle has nothing to do with the room
- Treating the missing rules page as permission to promote, because the moderator one liner shows the main boundary here is topical, and promotion rules are simply unknown
- Assuming startup culture content is automatically on topic, since the subreddit is about the region itself and the description says all things Silicon Valley rather than all things startups
Best hours to post in r/siliconvalley
No pattern yet. r/siliconvalley does not have enough top posts from the last 90 days to name its best hours.
What r/siliconvalley Is For
This subreddit is for the real Silicon Valley region. The description says it plainly, it is the home for all things Silicon Valley, and it points out right away that the HBO show called Silicon Valley has its own separate subreddit. So the people here are interested in the actual place, the towns, the tech scene, and life in that part of the Bay Area, not the television comedy. The moderator one liner backs this up, it says the subreddit is for the real Silicon Valley region and asks people to post about the show somewhere else. There are no published rules on the rules page, which is unusual, so the main boundary comes from that one line about the region versus the show.
What To Post
Post about the real Silicon Valley region. If you are a founder, that means sharing something tied to the place itself, like what it is like running a company in a specific town there, local meetups, office space questions, or observations about the tech community in the area. A good post reads like something a neighbor or a local would write, not like an ad. Since there are no published rules, the safest test is simple, would this post still make sense to someone who has never heard of the HBO show. If yes, you are probably in the right place.
What To Avoid
The clearest way to get your post moved or removed is to post about the HBO show. The description and the moderator one liner both say the show has its own subreddit, so episode reactions, cast news, and memes about the show do not belong here. Beyond that, no rules are published, so I cannot tell you what else gets posts removed, and I will not guess. What I can say is that the one stated boundary is about topic, so a post about the actual region is the safe side of the line.
A note from Anthony
The thing that jumps out at me is how much of this guide is really about one mixup, the show versus the place, and the description itself has to spell out where the show talk goes. That tells me the moderators here spend real energy redirecting people. If you are a founder in the area, that confusion is your opportunity, because almost nobody else is reading the description carefully enough to post about the actual region.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog. Every guide is built from the community's own public rules and data, then checked by Rankhog's grounding audit before it goes live.
Common questions about r/siliconvalley
What subreddits are similar to r/siliconvalley?
Subreddits like r/siliconvalley are r/melbourne, r/bayarea, r/hyderabad, r/houston, r/washingtondc, r/brisbane, r/AskNYC and r/bali.
Can I post about the HBO show Silicon Valley here?
No. The description points show discussion to the dedicated HBO show subreddit, and the moderator one liner repeats it. This subreddit is for the real region.
Does this subreddit have written rules I should read?
The public rules page displayed no rules, so there is nothing published to quote. The only stated guidance is the moderator one liner about keeping show content out.
Is self promotion allowed?
Unknown. The community displayed no rules and the policy brief marks promotion as unknown, so be conservative and lead with something genuinely useful about the region.
I am a founder in the area. Can I post here at all?
Yes, as long as the post is about the actual Silicon Valley region and not the television show. A local angle matters more than a startup angle.
Are there examples of posts that did well here?
No. Rankhog has no observed top posts for this community, so there is no evidence about what has done well here.
Subreddits like r/siliconvalley
Other rooms for the same crowd.