Auto-extracted self-promo policy, karma and account-age signals, and the full numbered rules straight from r/freelance's moderators.
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Self-promotion appears to be restricted or banned. Read rules carefully before posting.
Use /r/forhire to look for work or to find freelancers. This includes companies or individuals looking for freelancers, freelancers looking for work, or freelancers looking for partners or collaborators. Note that responding to posts or comments violating this rule or asking people to send you a private message are also violations of the rule.
**Examples** of prohibited content include: - your app or SaaS - your website or portfolio - your profile on a freelance site - a blog post you wrote - a article that mentions your company - your mailing list or newsletter - a Slack group, IRC channel, or other external chat - a book you wrote - a course you teach - a code repository for a project that you created - a video you made or appear in - any other external resource that you benefit from or are affiliated with
This subreddit isn't your focus group. You cannot use it: - to determine interest in your new idea for a freelancing marketplace or service - to help with a research project, school paper, or blog article - to ask freelancers questions to help improve your product or service
Do not ask people to send you a private message or if you can send them a message. Do not comment that you have sent them a message.
Referral URLs and other coded links are prohibited in this subreddit.
This includes: - posts/comments not primarily about freelancing - posts/comments about hiring or managing freelancers (this subreddit is for freelancers, not the people who hire them) - posts better suited to a different subreddit (e.g. UK-specific questions should be posted to /r/freelanceUK, questions about web development should go to /r/webdev, see the sidebar for additional examples)
https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439
Do a subreddit search before creating a post or asking a question.
r/freelance is welcoming to genuine freelancer-to-freelancer discussion but strict about promotional content from agencies or tools targeting freelancers. AutoModerator filters posts looking for free work or 'will work for exposure' framing. Tool recommendations in answers are fine if you're a regular contributor; standalone promotional posts are usually removed. The audience values practical advice from working freelancers over theory from coaches.
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