Where to find your first 100 users
Say what you’re building and see where your customers gather. Or type the name of a place and see whether it lets you mention your own product. Nothing to install, no email needed. Today it covers 6 kinds of customer, 63 places and the rules of 6 platforms, each line with its source and the date it was checked.
One dot is 10 posts in a weekLit: written by them63 places read · October 2 to 8, 2026
indie makers and founders: 13 places, 14,823 posts a week; the lit dots are their posts. The densest is r/alphaandbetausers: of 400 posts read, 389 were theirs. Press any cluster to see that place.
indie makers and founders: the 13 places they gather
14,823 posts a week. The orange part of a bar is the share of posts read that were theirs. Press a place to see it.
- 1389/400
- 2372/400
- 3356/400
- 4351/400
- 5113/135
- 6206/267
- 7123/168
- 8289/400
- 5 more. Press any place above and the whole list opens.
Counted from public archives, for the week of October 2 to 8, 2026. This kind’s full page →
Before you go, see what the place allows
The platform’s own words, with the date they were checked.
Redditchecked October 10, 2026
- Mentioning your product depends on the community
- Subreddits may have community-specific rules in addition to the guidelines below.
- AI-written text depends on the community
- If you don't want to write it, we don't want to read it.
Xchecked October 10, 2026
- Mentioning your product limited
- You may not share or post content in a bulk, duplicative, irrelevant or unsolicited manner
- AI-written text not read yet
- No wording read for this one yet.
What each platform lets you say
Rules have been read for 6 platforms. Every line is the platform’s own wording, and a cell that hasn’t been read says “not read yet”. For another 21 platforms we only know what kind of place each is.
| Platform | Mentioning your product | Its own words | AI-written text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News | limited | Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.checked October 10, 2026 | banned site-wide |
| V2EX | limited | 请把你们公司的任何营销内容发到这个节点。如果忽略这条规则，那么内容在被管理员发现之后，会被移动到这个节点。如果多次持续忽略这条规则，那么可能会对账号产生影响。 (In English: The rule of its node for promotions, 推广 (October 23, 2021); your own work goes to the node 分享创造. In English: post any marketing of your company in this node; if this rule is ignored, a moderator who finds the content moves it here, and ignoring it again and again may affect the account.)checked October 10, 2026 | banned site-wide |
| Indie Hackers | not checked yet | The code of conduct no longer exists.checked October 6, 2026 | not read yet |
| depends on the community | Subreddits may have community-specific rules in addition to the guidelines below.checked October 10, 2026 | depends on the community | |
| X | limited | You may not share or post content in a bulk, duplicative, irrelevant or unsolicited mannerchecked October 10, 2026 | not read yet |
| Jike | limited | 垃圾广告 – 不应重复发表无意义内容及推广营销内容； (In English: From its community rules. In English: spam, meaning meaningless content and promotional or marketing content, should not be posted again and again.)checked October 10, 2026 | not read yet |
| Xiaohongshu | limited | 不鼓励发布营销或导流的信息 (In English: From its community rules, in force since December 24, 2021. In English: posting marketing, or content that sends people elsewhere, is discouraged.)checked October 6, 2026 | must be labelled |
A page for each kind of customer
A page for each platform
- Hacker News self-promotion rules
- V2EX self-promotion rules
- Indie Hackers self-promotion rules
- Reddit self-promotion rules
- X self-promotion rules
- Jike self-promotion rules
- Xiaohongshu self-promotion rules
- A page for each place: once its own rules have been read
These places get new posts every day. Hmm reads them for you, picks out the people who are asking and drafts the replies.
ahahmm hasn’t launched yet. Mac comes first, Windows is in the works.