iamkahanikaar is no more (got myself banned from Reddit)

So I was all invested in making GetClauseApp. I wasn't getting that much traffic from X. I discussed this with Claude and showed him some analytics, so Claude suggested that Reddit is the place where you get your core audience. He told me to try engaging with communities over there. I researched a bit about it as I was new to this. Created an account with the username as usual "iamkahanikaar". Everything was going fine. I was just doomscrolling the platform, learning about various tools, how the subreddits work, the community guidelines, auto mods - all that stuff. I was getting used to the platform and then I joined a subreddit named r/SideProjects.

So I tried uploading a post over there but got to know I couldn't because I didn't have enough karma. Felt a bit upset, but then I watched a few YouTube tutorials and learned that you should engage on early posts and comment on them. Comments give you early visibility. So as suggested, I decided to post some comments on a few posts and started receiving a decent amount of engagement. You know what? The traffic spike which X never gave me for the past two weeks, Reddit just gave me within two days of using it. I interacted with people, pitched them GetClauseApp, they also pitched me about their tools, and I was enjoying my time. But I was also somewhat upset because on the subreddits with higher weekly visitors, I wasn't able to post anything due to karma requirements, and even after interacting with people out there, my karma wasn't increasing much.

Thereafter I decided to post about GetClauseApp on communities where they allow accounts with just 1 karma to post. So I posted about GetClauseApp asking for feedback on r/AlphaAndBetaTesters and many more — I don't exactly remember all of them. You know what I noticed? Whatever changes I made and added information about GetClauseApp through SEO used to take time, and Google's AI mode used to give vague answers about GetClauseApp. But since when I started uploading on Reddit, the Reddit pages were indexed faster than my SEO, and it improved Google's AI mode answers. I learned one thing: Reddit SEO is better, and if we add information on Reddit, it's more likely that AI crawlers treat them as a source of truth for their information. So for someone reading this, take a note of this.

Coming back to the story. It was my third day, and then I was exploring communities and saw a subreddit named r/PtaHaiAajKyaHua, and it was giving me great tea. I was seriously amazed and at the same time enjoying reading about people's life stories. I tried commenting on some of the posts — not about GetClauseApp but about their experiences combined with my thoughts — but again the mods blocked my comments because I didn't meet the minimum criteria for posting. They required 5 karma to at least post a comment. Got upset again but then explored more and more. At this time I was enjoying Reddit more than any other social media platform. There I saw another subreddit r/AajMereSaathYeHua which didn't have this karma criteria. So a long time ago I went to Starbucks, and I had a story to share. I posted it on this subreddit and boom — got 1.6k views, 11 upvotes, and 16 comments. Readers really liked the story. And you will not believe me, that increased my karma from 1 straight to 15. Yup, that was the spike of interaction. I was happy with Reddit.

But you know when everything is going absolutely fine, there is something which needs to go wrong. And that wrong did happen. So after replying and interacting with everyone for straight one hour, I took a break and then again opened Reddit and saw all my posts were filtered by Reddit. I thought it was the community mods doing this within that community. Even my Starbucks story post was filtered. But then I scrolled through all my posts and every single post had been removed. Then from another device, I searched for my account and unfortunately, my account was gone.

But this isn't stopping me. I took a break, raised the appeal, and asked Claude about this. He told me to forget about this account. My username iamkahanikaar was gone just in some hours when everyone was starting to recognize me. I was gone, wiped out. And I realized this is what life is — it gives us spikes and heights, but as soon as we start enjoying it, it throws us to the ground. What matters is how we are rising up. So instead of crying about the account, I created another account. And guess what? What is the username? Unfortunately, iamkahanikaar was gone, but imkahanikaar was there, so I created another account with this username. And fortunately, this account is live. I have decided just to doomscroll Reddit for a few days, build legitimacy, and then start commenting. After that, I'll start posting. But as a backup, I also created my portfolio website which will be under all my control, so I have decided that I will be posting a few of my stories over here as well.

“So at last, keep trying. Trying gives you hope, and hope is everything for which a human is living.”