r/buildinpublic↗
A community for creators, developers, entrepreneurs, and makers to openly share their journey as they build projects in public. Whether you're coding, designing, writing, or launching a business, this is the place to share progress, challenges, wins, and lessons.
127k subscribers3,894 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)2,636 authors / mosince 2020
r/buildinpublic has 127k members (+299% over the last 12 months). It gets about 3,894 posts a month from 2,636 people. Top topics: Building Projects, App Building Journey and First Users and Revenue.
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Topics and brands on r/buildinpublic
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Building Projects5.7%
- App Building Journey4.2%
- First Users and Revenue4.1%
- iOS Apps & Development3.1%
- SaaS Launches and Marketing1.7%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- microlaunch
- Product Hunt
- Beatable
- Microsoft
- beehiiv
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