Most launch lists are the same eight sites in a different order.

This is the long version: around eighty places you can put a product in front of people, grouped by what they actually are, with notes on which ones deserve a prepared launch day and which are a five-minute submission you do once and forget.

One warning before the list. You should not submit to all of these. Nobody has launched on eighty platforms and had eighty good days. A handful deserve real preparation, most are worth a single submission, and some are not worth opening at all.

Knowing the difference matters more than the length of the list, so the last section covers how to choose.

The Shortlist

If you only read one part of this page, read this table. These are the platforms we would actually spend a launch day on.

The Big Platforms

Enough traffic that a good day changes your week. Enough competition that a bad day is invisible.

Product Hunt

Still the largest, and still the most crowded. Increasingly won by teams who arrived with an audience already assembled.

Worth doing once, worth preparing properly, not worth building your entire plan around. We covered what to do when Product Hunt stops working for smaller products.

Hacker News (Show HN)

No submission form, no queue, no way to game it. You post it yourself with a plain title and no marketing language.

When it works, it is the highest quality traffic on this entire page. When it does not, nothing happens at all. There is very little middle ground.

Reddit

Not one platform but several hundred. r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/indiehackers, r/microsaas, and whatever niche subreddit your actual users live in.

Read the rules before posting. Most bans here are self-inflicted, and our guide on promoting on Reddit without getting banned covers the mistakes that cause them.

Indie Hackers

A community rather than a launch board. Posting a revenue milestone or a build story consistently outperforms posting a launch announcement.

AppSumo

A marketplace, not a directory. Lifetime deals bring revenue and support load in roughly equal measure.

Read the terms carefully before committing. This is a business decision, not a launch tactic.

BuiltByIndies

We run one of these, so weigh this accordingly.

BuiltByIndies is a weekly launch board for independent makers. Small products, solo founders, and no venture-backed launches occupying the top three slots every single day.

It is smaller than Product Hunt by a wide margin. That is the whole trade: less raw traffic, considerably better odds of being seen. A product that would finish 40th on Product Hunt can finish in the top three here, and a top-three finish is what people actually click.

If you are building a developer tool, you will probably do better on DevHunt than with us. If you are a solo maker shipping something small, this is what we built the board for.

Launch Boards for Indie Products

Smaller audiences, far less competition. Several of these will send a new product more real visitors than a mid-table Product Hunt day.

Worth preparing for

• Uneed — Clean, curated, genuinely active. One of the better bets on this page.

• MicroLaunch — Built specifically for micro-SaaS and small tools.

• Fazier — Growing steadily with a design-literate audience.

• Peerlist Launchpad — Attached to a professional network, so launches reach people with real profiles rather than drive-by traffic.

• DevHunt — Developer tools only. Narrow, which is exactly the point.

• BetaList — Pre-launch and beta products. Best used before you are finished, not after.

Worth a submission

• TinyLaunch — Quick daily launches for small products.

• LaunchIgniter

• PeerPush — Maker-to-maker promotion.

• TwelveTools

• Turbo0

• Firsto

• PitchWall — Also where BetaPage now redirects, so treat the two as one.

• Stacker News — Hacker News shaped, Bitcoin-leaning crowd, pays for good posts.

• LaunchingNext — Permanent listing rather than a launch day.

• SideProjectors — For listing or selling a side project rather than launching one.

The long tail

Small, some very new, and a few will not exist in a year: Hunt0, WaitJoin, MadeLaunch, TryLaunch, ShipYard HQ, Shipsquad, Slocco, LaunchTank, SpeedLaunch, LaunchVibe, LaunchBoard, ShipIt Buzz, CutAndShip, ConfettiSaaS, DailyPings, StartupSubmit, NextBigProduct, TinyStartups, Foundrlist, LaunchUrApp.

Each is a few minutes to submit. Do them in one sitting on a quiet afternoon, never on launch day.

Directories and Alternative Listings

These are not launch days. They are permanent listings, which makes them more valuable over time and far less exciting on the day.

This is where most of the durable SEO value on this page actually sits.

The ones that matter

• SaaSHub — Software directory with genuine search traffic.

• AlternativeTo — If your product is an alternative to something people already search for, this is one of the highest-leverage listings available anywhere.

• OpenAlternative — Open-source alternatives specifically.

• NoCodeList — No-code tools.

Mixed quality

Some are genuinely maintained, others are link farms running a template: SaaSFame, ToolFame, IndieTools, FindlyTools, DirectoryHunt, LaunchDirectories, Awesome Directories, Neeed Directory, StartupRanked, BestOfWebsite, Top10Now, SolutionsFast, StartupSlabSite, Indie Deals, TapRefer, DesiFounder, LaunchDubai, The Grommet, Proofy, ProofStories, TrustMRR.

Check whether anything has been posted in the last month before spending time on any of them.

On the SEO question: most of these links are nofollow, and a nofollow link from a directory nobody reads does very little. We went into this properly in do startup directory backlinks actually work. The short answer is that they help less than the lists claim and more than the cynics say.

AI Tool Directories

If your product has an AI component, this is a whole parallel ecosystem. It is also the most saturated corner of this page, and quality drops off a cliff after the first few.

• There's An AI For That — The largest by some distance. Paid submission if you want it processed quickly.

• Futurepedia

• FutureTools

• Aixploria

Beyond those, the tail is long and thin: AI Scout, Insidr AI, AILaunch, AItoolonline, EverythingAITool, TryLaunchAI, AIToolFame, ShowMeBestAI, KatseAI, AI Directories, 300 AI Directories.

The "300 AI directories" style lists are mostly the same sites recycled under different names. Submitting to all of them is a way to spend a weekend for very little in return.

Build-in-Public Communities

Not launch platforms at all. These are places to show the work over weeks, which tends to produce a warmer audience than any single launch day can.

• WIP — Todo-driven maker community with real accountability.

• Buildspace Demo Day — Cohort based, so timing matters.

• Makerlog — Now redirects elsewhere. The original community has effectively wound down.

This category is worth more than its size suggests. Our piece on what actually works when building in public covers why.

How to Actually Use This List

Eighty platforms is a reference, not a plan. Here is the approach that tends to work.

Pick two or three for real

These get prepared assets, a proper description, a good thumbnail, and a day where you are actually available to answer comments.

For most indie products that means one big platform plus one or two smaller boards where you have a genuine chance of finishing near the top.

Batch everything else

Set aside one afternoon, open twenty submission forms, and work through them with the same copy pasted into each.

The value per submission is low but the total cost is about fifteen minutes. Do not spread this across launch week, because it will eat the attention you need for the platforms that matter.

Check the site is alive first

This list is accurate as of writing, and some of it will rot. BetaPage folded into PitchWall. Makerlog redirects to an unrelated site.

Before spending time on any small directory, look at whether anything has been posted recently. A dead directory is just a dead link.

Do not launch everywhere on the same day

You cannot answer comments in five places at once, and a launch with no replies from the maker looks abandoned.

Stagger them across a few weeks. You also get several chances to fix your positioning based on what people actually ask.

Expect most of them to do nothing

This is the honest part. Out of eighty submissions you will likely see meaningful traffic from two or three, a slow trickle from a handful more, and silence from the rest.

That is a normal outcome, not a sign you did it wrong. The first hundred users almost never come from a directory. They come from showing up somewhere your users already are.

Before You Submit Anywhere

Our launch checklist covers what to have ready before you open a single submission form, and seven alternatives worth preparing for narrows this entire page down to the ones we would genuinely spend a launch day on.