I made 8 reddit posts to market my saas. 3 flopped, 1 got removed, and the winner had nothing to do with my product

Two week old account, 124 karma, no audience. here's every number.

What worked:

supabase auth migration writeup, r/supabase, 40 upvotes, 19k views
ai for non-technical users, r/ai_agents, 26 upvotes, 15k views
confidence calibration in rag, r/rag, 15 upvotes, 4.7k views

What died:

infra cost breakdown, r/saas, basically nothing
consulting to product, r/microsaas, basically nothing
what smbs need from chatbots, r/aitoolforbusiness, 1 upvote, 389 views
monorepo setup, r/reactjs, removed by reddit

The pattern took me embarrassingly long to see. every post that was about my product or my journey as a founder flopped. every post that was about a technical problem i'd actually solved worked.

The supabase post did 50x the views of the post about what my customers need. same account, same week, same writing.

My read on why. nobody on here owes you attention for building something. they'll give it to you for solving something they're currently stuck on. the product is not the value, the scar tissue is.

Second thing i got wrong. i thought posts were the channel. they aren't. comments convert several times better and cost a fraction of the effort. i now do roughly 4-5 comments a day and one post every 3-4 days, and the comments produce more profile clicks than any post has.

Third thing. r/reactjs removed my monorepo post and i still don't know exactly why. assume every big sub has an unwritten rule you'll break once. it's not personal and it's not worth appealing.

What i'd tell someone starting monday: pick niche subs over big ones. 4.7k views in a small sub beat 389 in a targeted one. write about the thing you debugged last week, not the thing you sell. Never put a link in the post. if the writing is good people find the profile. and reply to every comment in the first hour, that window decides whether the post lives.

Happy to share the analytics screenshots if anyone wants to see the flops, they're more instructive than the wins.