Where do my users hang out? / Personal finance & money
Where do people managing their own money hang out online?
A couple sits at the kitchen table with three bank apps open, trying to figure out where 600 dollars went last month. Money rooms ban pitches for good reason. Answer the question they asked, mention your tool once, and let the answer do the selling.
That scene is a composite, not a real person. The rooms below are real, picked by hand, and nobody paid to be on this list.
The rooms where people managing their own money already talk
- r/personalfinance: Helpful answers only; promo gets removed.
- r/FinancialPlanning: Longer-horizon money talk.
- r/Accounting: If you serve bookkeepers or CPAs.
- Personal Finance & Money Stack Exchange: Strict Q&A; answer the money question, mention the tool once.
- MoneySavingExpert Forum: UK-heavy money talk; no cold pitches in the main boards.
Rules change. Read each sidebar before you post, and check whether self-promotion is allowed at all.
How to post there without getting removed
Never pitch in the main feed. Answer a money question, mention the tool once.
- Write a post that is useful even if nobody clicks your link.
- Say plainly that you are the maker. People forgive a builder; they do not forgive a disguise.
- Stay for an hour and answer every reply. The comments are where the first users come from.
- Post in one room, learn, then adapt the words for the next. The same text pasted into three rooms reads as spam in all three.
Your next two moves
Run the finder on your own app →
The finder matches your one-line description against every niche map, then gives you a checklist, a share link and a fill-in-the-blanks first post written for r/personalfinance.
Then find people managing their own money on X: seven saved searches that catch people describing the problem right now, built for the word budget. Change it to your own.
Builder rooms, for feedback rather than customers
- r/SideProject: Best default builder room for "I made this."
- r/indiehackers: Solo founders; revenue and lessons beat polish.
- r/alphaandbetausers: Ask for specific testers and say what they get.
- r/roastmystartup: Cheap, blunt landing-page critique.
Builders give great critique and rarely pay. Use these for testers, then go back to the rooms above. More in Best subreddits to launch a SaaS.
FAQ
Where can I find people managing their own money as early users?
Start with r/personalfinance, r/FinancialPlanning, r/Accounting, Personal Finance & Money Stack Exchange, MoneySavingExpert Forum. These are rooms where people managing their own money already discuss the problems they want solved. Read each sidebar before posting; rules change.
How do I post to people managing their own money without getting removed?
Never pitch in the main feed. Answer a money question, mention the tool once. Say you are the maker, make the post useful without the click, and stay to answer every reply.
Is this list paid or sponsored?
No. Get100Users picked these rooms by hand for its free finder. Nobody paid to be listed.
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