The Reddit demand board

Practical how‑to guidance on campaign setup, targeting, tracking and structure

13 posts this week · 1 community · 5 weeks running · recurring

Frequent requests for step‑by‑step advice: campaign/app setup, audience selection, landing page localization, UTM handling, ad formats, and account management best practices.

Reliable ways to get and keep local customers / fill the calendar

11 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · urgent

Many posts ask for repeatable customer-acquisition tactics (postcards, Facebook/Google/marketplaces, videos, referrals, platforms) and advice on keeping a steady schedule.

Access to mentorship, honest feedback, and peer support

9 posts this week · 1 community · 11 weeks running · recurring

Many users ask for quick calls, criticism, or structured mentorship (weekly AMAs) and report feeling ignored or unsure—seeking advice and real-world perspectives.

How do I get my first paying customers and what to do after the first sales?

9 posts this week · 1 community · 10 weeks running · urgent

Many makers are celebrating first users/revenue and asking what growth, retention, and next steps they should focus on to turn it into sustainable MRR.

Low-cost distribution and growth tactics for indie makers

9 posts this week · 1 community · 9 weeks running · urgent

Makers repeatedly ask for practical, inexpensive ways to get users — SEO, content, subreddit promotion, and other tactics that work without a marketing budget.

How do I actually acquire users/customers — which channels and tactics work?

9 posts this week · 1 community · 9 weeks running · urgent

People repeatedly ask for practical ways to get users or clients (apps, SaaS, local services, Shopify stores) and which tactics convert best (trials, demos, social, referrals, bundles).

Better tools and patterns for low-level performance optimization

9 posts this week · 1 community · 2 weeks running · recurring

People repeatedly share micro‑optimization techniques and IPC/CPU/graphics speedups, signaling demand for reusable tools, libraries, and diagnostics to find and fix hotpaths (SIMD, division, memory latency, lookup tables

Beginner-friendly, step-by-step paths to start passive income with little time or money

8 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · urgent

Many posts ask for concrete first steps and realistic plans you can do alongside a job or with no/low capital.

Honest case studies and realistic income benchmarks

8 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · urgent

Users repeatedly ask for real numbers, transparent breakdowns, and community-wide data to judge what actually works.

Channel and campaign optimization tactics (SEO, influencers, long sales cycles, messaging,

8 posts this week · 1 community · 7 weeks running · urgent

Requests for concrete tactics to improve performance across channels — e.g., optimizing for AI/Google, running creator-driven ads, handling long B2B sales cycles, fixing slowing B2C accounts, A/B testing video hooks, and

Help with landing sales jobs, interviews, and résumé questions

8 posts this week · 1 community · 4 weeks running · urgent

People want actionable interview prep, resume/placement guidance, and explanations for why their candidacies keep failing or getting ghosted.

Validation: Which methods or platforms still work and which to avoid

7 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · urgent

People want up-to-date verdicts on specific strategies (niche sites, Etsy, AI courses, Pinterest, rental platforms) before investing time or money.

Ways to monetize existing assets or small projects (followers, tools, space, investments)

7 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · urgent

Users want practical ways to turn what they already have—audience, tools, spare space, portfolios—into recurring income.

Low-effort, low-anxiety marketing and lead channels that actually convert

7 posts this week · 1 community · 12 weeks running · recurring

Users want marketing tactics that don't feel humiliating (or force owners into being in content), plus reliable paid or organic lead channels that produce real local/B2B orders instead of junk.

Practical ways to find customers, get better at sales, and reduce churn

7 posts this week · 1 community · 11 weeks running · urgent

Founders repeatedly ask for tactics to get initial leads, improve sales skills or find sales partners, make technical projects visible, sell to enterprise/banks, and stop same-day trial churn.

Honest testers and feedback for early demos

7 posts this week · 1 community · 10 weeks running · recurring

Many builders are launching demos and explicitly asking the community to try them and give blunt/usability feedback.

Recovering from traffic loss, penalties, and AI/content-spam risk

7 posts this week · 1 community · 6 weeks running · urgent

People repeatedly ask how to diagnose and recover when rankings and traffic tank—especially after spam/AI-related updates or after publishing low-quality AI content.

Understand and adapt to LLM/AI behavior (AEO/GEO, citations, indexing)

7 posts this week · 1 community · 6 weeks running · recurring

There's strong demand for clear, actionable guidance on how LLMs and AI features source, cite, and surface web content and how to implement AEO/GEO or schema to influence that behavior.

Career, hiring, pricing, and client acquisition support

7 posts this week · 1 community · 6 weeks running · recurring

People are asking for help with role transitions, what marketing hire to recruit, how to price/proposal services, finding clients, and affordable agency help for small teams.

Fix platform bugs, regain account access, and get effective platform support

7 posts this week · 1 community · 5 weeks running · urgent

Multiple posts describe being stuck by platform bugs, account locks, billing issues, or unhelpful automated support and ask how to recover access or escalate.

Diagnose performance drops, attribution issues, rising CPMs and placement/creative faults

7 posts this week · 1 community · 5 weeks running · urgent

People want help diagnosing poor conversion rates, sudden CPM increases, objective/attribution discrepancies, unwanted placements, and feed/creative rendering problems.

How to predict, measure, and decide when content will perform or needs updating

7 posts this week · 1 community · 5 weeks running · urgent

Requests for methods, metrics, and signals to know what to publish, when to refresh old content, and how to judge creative fatigue or ROI.

Better lead qualification and ways to avoid/stop being handed low-quality leads

7 posts this week · 1 community · 3 weeks running · urgent

Multiple posts complain about leads that don't answer, fake/irrelevant MQLs, and being blamed by management — people want ways to flag, qualify, or refuse bad leads (or get better ones).

Ways to contain and audit privileged access for humans and automated agents

7 posts this week · 1 community · 2 weeks running · urgent

People want practical controls and guardrails so a compromised laptop, extension, or agent doesn’t lead to full-blown access to clouds, clusters, or secrets.

Stronger oversight, transparency and corporate accountability for AI firms and products

7 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent

Multiple stories call for government hearings, investigations, or policy scrutiny (CEO investigations, congressional testimony, product/contract changes and school/education policy), signaling demand for regulatory teeth

Idea discovery — niche, low-competition, or unusual income ideas and how to find them

6 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · recurring

There’s recurring demand for novel/oddball ideas and for methods to research and validate niche opportunities.

How to validate or test business ideas and pick the right niche

6 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · recurring

Users are seeking inexpensive ways to test demand and decide which service or niche is worth pursuing (portable rentals, trades, dog waste, cleaning, industries with recurring problems).

Practical operations and admin systems for service businesses (bookkeeping, comms, waste,/

6 posts this week · 1 community · 13 weeks running · urgent

Several posts request solutions for everyday ops: tracking receipts/bookkeeping, customer communication methods, handling waste logistics, and when to outsource ad management.

Practical help scaling operations and staffing to stop burnout

6 posts this week · 1 community · 12 weeks running · urgent

Multiple posts describe being overwhelmed, losing employees, or needing to train/manage new hires and want concrete systems, hiring/retention tactics, or processes to scale without collapsing.

How to structure hiring, cofounder/advisor equity, IP and agreements to avoid being burned

6 posts this week · 1 community · 11 weeks running · urgent

Several posts describe being exploited or confused by informal agreements (NDA/LOI), last-minute advisor terms, unclear equity for CTOs/CPOs, and trouble hiring—founders want concrete contract templates, negotiation play