Our picks
Places we would start with. A judgement call, not a ranking, and nobody paid to be here. 18 places.
Directories 9
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BetaList
Paid
An editorial directory of startups that are new to its audience, whether you have a waitlist, a beta or a live product. Widely known products and sites on free subdomains are not a fit. You only pay if you are featured.
All submissions are paid. There is no free option. Current plans are shown at the end of the submission form. If your startup is not selected, you get a full refund automatically.
Early adopters, founders and investors. BetaList states 500,000+ pageviews a month, and faster plans can include its newsletter of 70,000+ subscribers.
BetaList's help page says a featured listing includes a do-follow backlink. The public 'Visit Site' button goes through a betalist.com URL that 301-redirects to you, which BetaList says is still do-follow.
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DevHunt
Free or paid
A weekly launch pad only for developer tools, with voting by signed-in developers. The site is open source. Tools that are not for developers are not accepted.
Listing a tool is free and gets a permanent page. A launch week costs $49 once: you pick the week and get a newsletter spot. Optional weekly super boosts are $199, $149 and $99 for first, second and third in the launch email.
Developers voting on developer tools. Voting needs a GitHub or Google sign-in.
DevHunt's FAQ: links on free listings are nofollow. A paid launch gets a permanent dofollow link.
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OpenHunts
Free or paid
A weekly Monday launch board aimed at indie makers and small startups.
A Free Launch is $0. Paid options shown on 12 November 2026 included $9.90 (listed against $19) per launch and a weekly rate from $20. All launches run at 8:00 AM UTC on Mondays, with a limited number of projects each week.
OpenHunts states 10,414 users and 165,266 visits over about 12 months. Those are the site's own figures.
The homepage talks about high-DR backlinks. The pricing page we opened did not say whether the free listing's link is dofollow, so that is left unstated.
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Peerlist Launchpad
A weekly launch board inside Peerlist. Launches are tied to a personal profile rather than a company page. We did not confirm a price on the Launchpad page we opened, so cost is left out.
Builders with a Peerlist profile: developers and designers in a professional network.
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PeerPush
Free or paid
A product directory written so both people and AI assistants can find a tool. You paste a URL, and a free listing waits in a queue; paid plans go live at once.
Free submissions join a publishing queue and are not visible until their slot. Standard Launch is $45 for instant publishing and a permanent listing. Launch plus 7-day promotion is $99. Launch plus 30-day promotion is $229.
PeerPush says it had 1,438,372 monthly visits across 167 countries, and that its pages were read by 32 AI systems in the last 30 days. Those are the site's own figures.
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Product Hunt
Free
The main daily launch board for new tech products. The team hand-picks which launches appear on the homepage leaderboard. You hunt your own product from a personal account, and asking for upvotes is not allowed.
Launching costs nothing. Submitting, commenting and reaching Product of the Day are free. Ads are a separate, paid product. Use a personal account with a verified email. You can schedule a launch from tomorrow up to 30 days ahead, going live at 12:01 AM Pacific Time.
Early adopters, makers, product people, founders, investors, and people who like trying new things, per Product Hunt's launch guide.
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TinyLaunch
Free or paid
A smaller weekly board for small products, with a free standard queue and a $39 premium slot.
A Standard Launch sits in the free queue, lives on the homepage for several days, and can earn a backlink if you finish in the top 3. Premium Launch is $39 and includes a guaranteed high-authority backlink.
Makers of small products looking for a weekly launch slot.
The pricing page promises a high-authority backlink for the day's top 3 on Standard, and a guaranteed one on Premium. It does not say whether those links are dofollow, so that is left unstated.
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Twelve Tools
Free or paid
A curated daily list of twelve new tools. You can submit for a free listing or pay once for a featured spot.
A free plan at $0, forever, and a Pro plan at $36 as a one-time payment, shown on the submit page on 12 November 2026.
People browsing a daily shortlist of new tools and startups. Twelve Tools publishes twelve new tools a day.
The homepage and submit page both offer a dofollow backlink for your tool.
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Uneed
Free or paid
A daily launch pad for indie and SaaS tools you can actually try. The free queue is long. Paid plans let you move up or pick the day.
The free 'Join the line' plan lets Uneed assign a date at least 50 days out. An upvote score of 10 keeps the listing published, and 20 unlocks the do-follow backlink. Fast-track is $14.99. Choosing your own date is $39.99. A relaunch of an existing product is listed as a paid option.
Uneed states 125,000 monthly visitors and about 22,000 visits sent to product sites each month.
Uneed's pricing page: a do-follow backlink from a 75 DR domain once a free launch reaches an upvote score of 20. Skip the line guarantees the do-follow link.
Communities 4
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DEV
Free
A free writing community for developers. A launch post that teaches something, or shows how the thing works, usually does better than a bare announcement.
Free to publish a post with a free account.
Software developers who read and write long-form posts.
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Indie Hackers
A long-running forum and product directory for bootstrapped founders. A useful post usually includes the story, the numbers or a lesson, not only a launch link. The homepage was readable from this network earlier in the day, then later returned 403 to some fetches; the site is live. Membership prices were not verified.
Bootstrapped founders and solo makers.
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Show HN
Free
The Show HN lane on Hacker News is for things people can run or hold. Landing pages, sign-up walls, blog posts and newsletters are off topic. Don't ask friends to upvote. Be around to answer.
Free. Post a story whose title begins with 'Show HN'.
Hacker News readers, especially people who will try a piece of software or hardware the same day.
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WIP
A build-in-public community where people log what they shipped today. A good place to keep sharing a product over weeks, not only on launch day.
Makers post short daily progress in public. Some profiles are marked Pro. We did not confirm a free or paid plan on the homepage we opened, so cost is left out.
Makers who post work in public, including shipping product updates.
Newsletters 1
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Console
Free
A weekly newsletter that reviews 2 to 3 developer tools. A good fit if developers are the primary user, signup is self-service, and the docs are solid. Betas need to be clearly labelled as early.
Editorial review is free: email hello@console.dev with the details. Console also sells clearly marked text ads, which it keeps separate from reviews, and it does not do sponsored reviews.
Experienced developers who read a weekly review of tools and beta releases.
Subreddits 4
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r/alphaandbetausers
Free
A community for recruiting early testers. Lead with who should try it, what you want them to do, and whether the product is ready to use. Read the current rules: some tester subs remove waitlist-only pages.
Free. You need a Reddit account. Read the current rules before you post; they change, and this network could not load the live sidebar.
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r/indiehackers
Free
A Reddit community of solo founders and small teams. Sharing a product is common, but many posts are expected to ask for feedback or include a lesson. Read the current flair and frequency rules.
Free. You need a Reddit account. Read the current rules before you post; they change, and this network could not load the live sidebar.
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r/roastmystartup
Free
You post a startup or landing page and ask for blunt criticism. Useful if you want honest reactions more than launch traffic.
Free. You need a Reddit account. Read the current rules before you post; they change, and this network could not load the live sidebar.
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r/SideProject
Free
The usual first stop for an 'I built this' post. Say what you made, why, and what you want feedback on, and read the current title format in the sidebar.
Free. You need a Reddit account. Read the current rules before you post; they change, and this network could not load the live sidebar.
When a listing changes
A short note when we re-check the board. No other mail.