Built a small tool earlier this year and decided to treat Reddit as my only distribution channel for the first 6 weeks. No ads, no newsletter, no Product Hunt. Just Reddit. I mapped out 23 subreddits where the problem my tool solves actually comes up in conversation, made a posting schedule, and started tracking everything in a spreadsheet. The results were genuinely weird. The subreddits with long rule pages, active mod teams, and karma requirements that made me nervous to post in? Those drov...