Should I use my own Reddit account?
I’m Maddie (from OGTool). I’ve helped customers scale to 280k/year using reddit
The #1 question I get?
- “Should I post as myself or my company?”
- “Do I buy an account or make a new one?”
Here’s exactly how top-performing accounts are set up.
Let’s get into it
1. Yes! Use your personal account
Use your Reddit like your LinkedIn.
It builds more trust.
Put simply, would you rather DM an anonymous rando or Waseem (CEO of Series C startup)?
Waseem (Series C Founder):
Don’t use Anonymous rando:
Liam (CRO of Franchise Agency):
SleepDoctaRaj (Founder / MD)
2. Use the Founder (or expert) persona
Use the persona that has the most experience / rizz in your industry.
Usually that’s the founder. If not, use an expert in your company.
Why? It’s the background – that’s what build trusts.
SleepDoctaRaj (Founder / MD)
Immigration-101 (Visa Officer)
Sofia_Aubert (Relationship Coach)
3. Yes, use your existing account!! (It’s better)
LOOKS REAL.
Old accounts with karma and age are golden.
You can comment 10-30 times a day with minimal risk.
Reddit’s anti-bot filters target new accounts, but old ones fly under the radar.
Don’t like your old posts? Just delete them. This is the best approach.
If you’re starting fresh, that’s fine. Just go slow. 1–2 comments a day for the first few weeks.
If you do create a new account:
Use email and password option, that way you can select your username.
Don’t use google auth because you won’t be able to pick your username and it’s hard to share accounts with other team members.
4. Add pics and bio
Once you make an account,
add your picture/bio and start making helpful comments
Pictures will help your account stand out more = more DMs!!!
Bio will redirect people to your site
Mine:
5. Hand it off to your team!
Last step – Once you have an account, hand it off to a teammate to own!
Every day, they’ll make 5-10 comments on your behalf.
With our software, it will save them time 1) finding the right posts and 2) making comments in your voice/expertise.
This is by far the most effective approach.
6. Effective Comment Examples
Look at Chris’s and Rishi’s comments. They’ve done it for 8+ months. They’ve only had 1 subreddit ban. Rishi got his best enterprise deal from reddit. Chris gets 280k/year from Reddit.
Here are 4 different styles that work:
- Stuff your comment with 3-5 tips
You can just share 3-5 tips, your product happens to be one of them
- Disclaim you’re working on it
Focus 90% of your comment on helping them. Then at the bottom, have a 1 liner, disclaim: hey im the founder of XYZ.
- Ask them to DM you (in extremely moderated subreddits)
You share some numbers on your approach and ask ppl to DM you if they want access
- Share what worked for you personally
You can share your story and share specific insights that helped u.
Bad examples
- Generic AF
2. Acting as a third party (Not being transparent about who you are)
Remember:
Do
- Stuff your comment with 3-5 tips
- Share what works for you
- Disclaim you’re working on it
- Sound natural
Don’t
- Make generic comments (robotic tone)
- Fake being a user (people can see your history)
- Make 100 comments a day with a new account (start slow with a new account)
- Automate your comments!! (Reddit can detect it)
Other FAQ
I got banned, what should I do?
First, confirm if your account got banned by opening your reddit profile in incognito, eg:
https://www.reddit.com/user/lesbianzuck
If your account is banned, assess why.
The main reasons I see people getting banned are
- Not warming up
- Making a new account and posting a bunch
- Moving to a new location, then posting a bunch
- Posting a bunch of hyperlinks
- Using other reddit tools/APIs to automate comments
- Fake being a user (people can see your history and report you)
Other reasons:
- Buying reddit accounts
- Making reddit accounts on the same IP/browser of the account that had gotten banned.
Reddit bans accounts that look “irregular” compared to the usual reddit user.
We need to start slow and build up comments over time.
For next steps,
- Make a new account, on an IP/browser of an account that’s not banned.
- You can just hotspot it on your phone
- or use https://gologin.com/
- Make an account based on a real persona affilitated with your company (eg: Founder, coach, lawyer, etc.)
- Warm it up over time
- subscribe to subreddits
- upvote things
- after a few days, make 1 comment, then build up slowly
- After 2-3 weeks, you should be good to go.
- Don’t make over 20+ comments in a day
- Instead it’s better to spread comments across multiple accounts
- We have settings for this in our tool to support multiple accounts / personas
- DONT POST HYPERLINKS, do normal mentions
- Make helpful comments and posts
I mainly read reddit posts, i’m not super active, will I get value?
It’s like making LinkedIn comments, it’s chill. Just don’t do anything crazy and you’re fine.
If you have an older account, you can start making 5 comments a day. Keep ramping up over time. Try to hit 20 comments a week.
If you have a brand new account, start with 1-2 a day, or 5-10 per week.
When you start, don’t go overboard and make 100 comments a day. Then Reddit might flag your account as a spammer. If you slowly ramp up, reddit will think you’re a normal user and you will be fine.
We’ve had accounts make over 1000 comments in a year! Average 80-150 a month. It works.
Do I integrate my account with OGtool?
No. You will have to manually copy and paste the responses to Reddit, no auto-posting.
The reason is: Reddit’s commenting API is a honey trap. We tried it and some accounts got banned. Manually pasting is the most sustainable approach.
Our biggest customer has made over 1k comments in a year with minimal bans/removals using this method.
WHAT NOT TO DO
1. Do not use a company account
We barely see content on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, from brands anymore, because its ineffective.
Why? It comes off as SALESY and impersonal.
I want to speak to Liam. Not FranchiseKI.
Only do it if you are HUGE. Mcdonalds / United Airlines
At this point, you aren’t using reddit for marketing.
You are using it for managing reputation.
2. Do not make a fake “user” account
You will get called out and banned.
Redditors can see your comment history.
Do not make multiple accounts, reddit can tell they are all you.
What converts is actually being yourself, and being helpful.
See examples of comments that convert.
3. Do not buy reddit accounts
No, create your own account.
Most people I know who bought a reddit account, had seen it get banned 1-2 weeks later.
4. Do not worry about Karma, unless it blocks u
You can just start commenting today
The only thing is, sometimes some subreddits have a karma requirement.
If you dont have enough, just manually contribute to threads (eg: /r/relationship_advice, or other posts in ur industry)
To farm karma faster, you can also use our tool to generate replies. Mine often get 5-20 upvotes.
5. Do not make 100+ comments in a day
Make like max 10 comments a day per account.
If you make too many comments (eg 1000 a day), you might get banned.
For context, Shimmer makes about 100 comment on average for a year.
They split comments amoung multiple personas/reddit accounts.
If you have too many posts, you can use our software to assign certain posts to multiple accounts. Example
- “Assign all crypto related posts the Jessie”
- “Assign all stock related posts to Anna”
Note this feature is available on the Growth plan – you can upgrade in settings.
Next steps
- Create your Reddit account
- Use a founder/expert persona
- Add pics and bio
- Hand it off to a teammate to run!
Then start commenting!
Our software finds relevant posts for your startup, and generates a comment (like example 1 & 2), that look and sounds like you.
To see our software in action, see the demo here. It will show you once you request access. Then you can look below to get started