Independent professionals running a one-person service business.
r/freelance is the broad community for independent professionals. Posts cover client management, pricing, contracts, taxes, and the tools that keep a solo practice running.
Freelancers across design, writing, development, and consulting — running themselves as a business.
~500k members — a large community. Use it as a general-tier sub: high reach, filter hard for intent.
A general-tier sub for tools that serve solo service providers — proposals, invoicing, CRM, time tracking, lead gen. The audience buys its own tools and shares recommendations freely.
Buying signals to watch forPromotion is restricted; the sub values peer advice. Recommend when asked, disclose your stake.
The 9 rules r/freelance moderators enforce, summarised from the subreddit’s official rules page (June 2026). Read them before you post or reply — rules change, so confirm the current rules on Reddit.
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
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