Hey,
Honest update from week 4.
This week I got shadowbanned on Reddit.
Not a regular ban a shadowban. My posts were visible to me but invisible to everyone else. I had no idea until I checked a shadowban checker tool and saw the red badge: "Your account is invisible to all other Reddit users."
It had been 4 days. Every comment I left, every reply I wrote nobody saw any of it.
What triggered it: I've been dropping clksy.co in first comments consistently across multiple subreddits. Reddit's spam filter detected the pattern same domain, same comment structure, repeated across r/SaaS, r/indiehackers, r/Entrepreneur. It doesn't matter that the posts were genuine. The pattern looked like spam.
Appeal submitted. Still no response from Reddit. Account still banned.
Lesson learned the hard way: vary how you engage. Don't copy-paste the same link comment. Build karma with pure value replies before dropping any link at all.
What else shipped this week:
Onboarding email sequence Day 2 + Day 3 emails now go out automatically to new signups
Upgrade nudge free users see a soft warning at 8-9/10 links before hitting the limit
Public roadmap at clksy.co/roadmap Shipped / Building Now / Planned
Reddit shadowban (you already know this one)
Goal update: first paying customer before July 12. That's my 27th birthday. 14 days left.
Reddit was my best organic channel. Losing it stings and Reddit isn't responding.
So Twitter is the focus now. Found a search query that surfaces founders expressing the exact pain Clksy solves every morning. Been running it 3 days. 15 real conversations. One quote tweet from a 3K account.
The work continues.