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I Hacked Reddit To Build A $1M Business | Starter Story
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Going All In: Front Page, Millions of Views
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Flushed with success but acutely aware of the fragility of the strategy, the founder treats urgency as a feature. He knows the mods will eventually catch on and others will copy his approach, so he floods the zone — posting repeatedly, relentlessly. And it keeps working. His content repeatedly hits Reddit's front page. Hundreds of thousands of people visit his website; millions read his posts. But attention alone doesn't pay the bills. Step two of the plan is already forming: he needs to capture this borrowed audience and make it his own before the window slams shut.
By posting again and again with the native-content strategy, the founder's posts repeatedly hit Reddit's front page, reaching millions of readers.
Reddit traffic is borrowed. An email list is owned. The Starter Story founder built tens of thousands of subscribers before Reddit banned him — meaning the platform's death sentence didn't matter.
