Reddit Karma and Account-Age Gates Silently Remove Legitimate Posts, Locking Founders Out of the Exact Subreddits Where Their Niche Buyers Gather

Summary

Indie hackers and early-stage founders know which niche they serve but keep getting their posts auto-removed by subreddit karma minimums and account-age gates before a single potential customer ever sees them — as shown by a small-business owner whose substantive question was deleted from r/amex purely because 'my account doesn't have enough karma.' This is a distinct, unsolved barrier from anti-self-promotion rules: it is an automated participation gate that removes even non-promotional, genuinely helpful content, so the founder never gets a chance to be judged on tone or intent. There is no tool that tells a founder which target subreddits enforce karma/age minimums, how much karma or account age is required, or whether a drafted reply will simply vanish on submission. Existing social-listening and Reddit-alert tools surface threads but never warn about hidden posting gates, so founders burn hours writing careful, helpful replies that get silently deleted, conclude Reddit 'doesn't work,' and abandon their only viable acquisition channel. Because the buyers these founders need live in exactly these gated communities, the problem directly blocks customer acquisition and is worth paying to fix.