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r/buildinpublic subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Oct 6, 2026–Nov 6, 2026 (UTC).
From October 6, 2026 to November 6, 2026, 8,634 users on r/buildinpublic made 5,192 posts and 20,565 comments, or about 163 posts/day and 646 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 4.0 comments per post; 51.2% of posts and 14.7% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 33.5/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 7.0% of posts and 27.7% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 14:00 (1.4x avg), the most active day was Wednesday (1.1x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.89x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/buildinpublic
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 6 at 20:19 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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