Solo devs: has Reddit ever quietly removed your post before anyone saw it?

Hey everyone 👋

I'm building Reddit Pilot, a small Chrome extension for indie makers who want to be part of Reddit but keep running into the same wall.

Here's the pattern I kept seeing. You build something, you go to the subreddit where your users hang out, and your post is gone within minutes. No reply, just a removal by AutoModerator because the account is too new, has too little karma, or hasn't been active in that community. The advice is always "participate first", which is fair. It's just hard to do every day while you're also shipping.

So Reddit Pilot helps with the participating part. You choose the subreddits you actually care about, and it leaves short, relevant comments at a calm, randomized pace, from your own account, with a log of everything it writes.

What it deliberately doesn't do:

• it never creates posts (your launch post should come from you)

• no DMs, no voting

• it stays out of politics and other sensitive threads

We're launching here soon, and before then I'd really value your input:

1. Have you had a post or comment removed for karma or account age? Which subreddits were the hardest?

2. What would make you comfortable using a tool like this? Full approval before anything posts? Tone settings? Something else?

3. What's your current approach to Reddit? Grinding comments manually, avoiding it, or something smarter?

Honest takes welcome, including "I'd never use this, here's why". That's the feedback that shapes the product most.

There'll be a launch-day discount for everyone in this thread 🙏