Wrap the Promo in a 90/10 Value Post Once Karma Is High
Wrap the Promo in a 90/10 Value Post Once Karma Is High is a reddit & forums tactic for getting your first users: After your account has high karma and standing, post a thread that is 90% genuine educational value (charts, data, lessons) and only 10% a soft product mention at the very end, so mods let it through and the community rewards it.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for Founders with a teachable problem-solving story. As a reddit & forums play, plan for medium effort and expect results to show up quickly, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Reddit & forums
- Best for: Founders with a teachable problem-solving story
- Effort: Medium
- Speed: Fast
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does reddit & forums work for this?
High account standing plus a value-first format gets past moderators and earns upvotes, turning one post into hundreds of upvotes and hundreds of site visitors.
The exact steps (5)
The full step-by-step this founder ran, what they posted, where, and in what order, plus the watch-outs, is part of the library.
Sources
- Source — IndieHackers · indiehackers.com