Who says “recommend”
A request for a recommendation is a request for a shortlist, and the first three answers usually become that shortlist. Being one of them costs nothing but timing.
Counted across 2,348 posts from 44 communities, collected since 18 July 2026.
141 posts in our collection mention “recommend”, spread across 32 communities, and 61 of them are asking a question rather than making a statement.
| Community | Posts | Share of the mentions |
|---|---|---|
| r/travel | 22 (9 ask) | |
| r/AskPhotography | 16 (16 ask) | |
| r/solotravel | 14 (4 ask) | |
| r/SaaS | 9 (4 ask) | |
| r/DataHoarder | 7 (1 ask) | |
| r/digitalnomad | 7 (5 ask) | |
| r/webdev | 7 (1 ask) | |
| r/AcousticGuitar | 6 (1 ask) | |
| r/backpacking | 5 (2 ask) | |
| r/Kyrgyzstan | 4 (1 ask) | |
| r/devops | 4 | |
| r/guitarlessons | 4 (2 ask) | |
| r/startups | 4 (3 ask) | |
| r/centralasia | 3 (2 ask) | |
| r/marketing | 3 (2 ask) | |
| r/smallbusiness | 3 | |
| r/webflow | 3 (1 ask) | |
| r/Entrepreneur | 2 (1 ask) | |
| r/SideProject | 2 | |
| r/UXDesign | 2 (1 ask) | |
| r/privacy | 2 | |
| r/technicalwriting | 2 | |
| r/Bookkeeping | 1 (1 ask) | |
| r/Guitar | 1 | |
| r/SEO | 1 | |
| r/freelance | 1 | |
| r/freelanceWriters | 1 (1 ask) | |
| r/graphic_design | 1 (1 ask) | |
| r/microsaas | 1 | |
| r/musictheory | 1 (1 ask) | |
| r/nocode | 1 | |
| r/software | 1 (1 ask) |
The most recent of them
Real threads, opening on Reddit. The reply count is what it was at the moment we collected the post, which is the state a thread is in while answering it is still worth doing.
Reading this table
The phrase lands hardest in r/travel, which holds 22 of the 141 mentions we have collected. That concentration is the part worth acting on. A word spread thinly across every community is usually too generic to build on, while a word that clusters tells you which room to stand in.
Before you reply anywhere, check what the community allows. Most of the places above have a profile in our directory covering who posts there, whether promotion is tolerated at all, and what tends to get removed. The wider rules are in the self-promotion guide.
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Someone is shopping
A word is a hint. A customer is a judgement.
Lidar reads these communities daily, weighs every post against what your product does rather than against a keyword, and sends you the handful that are worth answering.