How I turned Reddit growth problem into a $9.5k side project!

I had 2 failed projects without a single sale.
I tried marketing them on Reddit and got banned 6 times for doing it wrong.
No traffic, no sales, just frustration.

That’s when MediaFa.st was born.

I learned how Reddit really works — posting styles, community culture, what gets banned, and what drives traffic. I went from constant bans to thousands of visitors from a single post.

MediaFast helps founders grow on Reddit with a clear roadmap that tells you when to post, where to post, how to engage, and what to say.
It also includes post scheduling, karma tracking, badges, multi-platform support with LinkedIn, and content strategy tools. Think Buffer, but built for Reddit.

The core feature: MediaFa.st figures out the right growth strategy for your product, whether that’s aggressive direct linking or a storytelling-first approach that gets people curious and asking for your link.

What worked for me:

• Niching down hard to Reddit and LinkedIn instead of chasing every platform, and going deep until I could get consistent results.

• Solving my own problem first, which made the product useful and easy to explain.

• Starting with a low price to remove friction, then raising it as demand grew.

• Listening to early users and building only what they actually wanted, fast.

• Letting the product sell itself by showing results in my own Reddit posts.

• Investing in SEO early so I wasn’t completely dependent on social traffic.

• Building in public to attract an audience before I had a marketing budget.

• Repurposing content across all socials to squeeze maximum reach out of every post.

📈 Today I’m at $1.5k+ MRR and $8.95k ARR, still solo, fully bootstrapped, and growing.

Ask me anything - growth strategies, Reddit tactics, or product lessons.

P.S. Every roadmap is based on my own experience and experiments, no AI fluff.

🎁 For IndieHackers Club members I set up a special 42% discount (instead of the usual 26%). Use the code INDIEHACKERS-CLUB at checkout ;)