# Post stories on Reddit, not sales pitches

- Category: distribution
- Author: Zoltan Szogyenyi (https://indie.md/people/zoltan/)
- Source: https://indie.md/events/indie-tm-6-timisoara-april-2026/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/story-driven-reddit/

Reddit rewards authenticity and punishes promotion. When Flowbite launched a new datepicker component, they posted the story of building it, not a sales pitch. Share the journey, the technical decisions, the problems you solved. On X/Twitter, sharing MRR numbers gets engagement. On Reddit, the same post gets buried. Each platform has its own language. Learn to speak it.