r/smallbusiness

smallbusiness: Questions about starting, owning and growing a small business

This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business only.

Members: 2,554,186
Created: 2009
Posts a day: 45
Avg comments, top posts this week: 75

r/smallbusiness is a Reddit community with 2,554,186 members, created in 2009. It averaged about 45 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 62 and an average of 75 comments each. Business, customers and getting are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 05:00 UTC, and most often on a Friday.

Only approved members can post in r/smallbusiness.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

560Doing $500k-1million a month in revenue, but I don’t have an hour to myself and I’m losing my mind.562 comments · September 20, 2026
174Why do so many people think they need to spend money to reduce taxes?209 comments · October 10, 2026
214My childhood friends and I started a business together, but one friend's father is treating us like employees. I'm considering walking away. Am I overreacting?178 comments · October 16, 2026
94Introverts who run a business, how did you get comfortable being the face of it?141 comments · October 15, 2026
23519, two years into my lawn care business, $30k offer on the table. Sell and go to uni, or keep it running with a team lead?133 comments · October 15, 2026
248When did credit card companies become judge and jury? Small businesses are getting crushed by chargebacks.127 comments · October 17, 2026

Common words in titles

business 22
customers 7
getting 6
small 6
start 5
not 4
client 3
cost 3
did 3
don 3
friend 3
left 3

Best time to post

05:00 UTC · 4 top posts
16:00 UTC · 3 top posts
20:00 UTC · 2 top posts
Friday · 8 top posts
Tuesday · 6 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

Post only questions about small business.
No links, product recommendations, unsolicited advice, blog content, or SEO shaping.
No business promotion posts
No personal attacks.
No market research posts - not for developing apps, not for AI, not for business offerings

How to post in r/smallbusiness without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/smallbusiness member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/smallbusiness" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/",
    "name": "smallbusiness",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "smallbusiness: Questions about starting, owning and growing a small business",
    "createdAt": "2009-01-08T07:07:16.000Z",
    "description": "This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business only.",
    "subscribers": 2554186
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/smallbusiness

How many members does r/smallbusiness have?

r/smallbusiness had 2,554,186 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/smallbusiness?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 45 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 75 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/smallbusiness?

This month's top posts in r/smallbusiness went up most often around 05:00 UTC, and most often on a Friday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/smallbusiness data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/smallbusiness for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/smallbusiness/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.