Submission rules, prices and link types change often, so check each site's current guidelines before you submit. For a shorter list focused on launch boards, see our Product Hunt alternatives.
Launch Boards (6)
These run event-style launches, where new products are featured for a set window:
- Hauntboard (hauntboard.com): weekly launches, a person reviews each one, and page views and outbound clicks are public on every launch page.
- Product Hunt: the best-known daily launch platform, ranked over a single day.
- Uneed: daily launches for indie tools.
- Peerlist Launchpad: weekly launches on a professional network for people in tech.
- Microlaunch: 30-day launches for indie builders.
- Fazier: daily launches with weekly and monthly leaderboards.
Startup Directories (6)
Directories keep your listing up long after launch week, which can bring a slow trickle of visitors and links:
- BetaList: for early-stage products looking for beta signups.
- Launching Next: a long-running directory of new startups.
- SaaSHub: a software alternatives and comparison site.
- Startups.fyi: a directory that reviews submissions before featuring them.
- SideProjectors: a marketplace and showcase for side projects, including ones for sale.
- AllTopStartups: a startup news site that accepts startup submissions.
Founder Communities (6)
Communities reward people who take part, not people who drop a link and leave:
- Indie Hackers: share milestones, numbers and lessons from building.
- Show HN (Hacker News): blunt technical feedback. Follow the Show HN rules and keep the title plain: "Show HN: Name – what it does".
- r/SideProject: share a demo video and ask for UX feedback.
- r/SaaS: discussion between SaaS founders. Read the subreddit's self-promotion rules first.
- DEV Community (dev.to): write a technical article about how you built one part of your product.
- Hashnode: a developer blogging platform, good for the same kind of build write-up.
AI Tool Directories (4)
If AI is central to your product, these directories are worth a submission:
- There's An AI For That: a large catalog of AI tools, organised by task.
- Futurepedia: an AI tool directory with categories and reviews.
- TopAI.tools: a directory of AI tools.
- FutureTools: Matt Wolfe's curated directory of AI tools.
Submission Checklist
Before you start submitting, put these in one shared document so every submission takes minutes, not an evening. Sizes below are common defaults; check each platform's own requirements.
- Square logo (for example 512x512 PNG with a transparent background)
- 16:9 screenshot (for example 1920x1080)
- One-line tagline (aim for under 60 characters)
- Short description (150–300 characters)
- Long description (600–1,200 characters)
- Three to five core features as bullet points
- A short founder note on why you built it
Our launch checklist covers the rest, and the meta tag generator helps you get your own page's title and social preview right before the links start going out.