Product Hunt alternatives: where else to launch

Product Hunt is the place most founders think of first, but it is one day on one board, and not every launch is featured. Most small teams do better spreading a launch across a few places that suit the product. This guide groups the alternatives by what they are and says what a free launch involves on each, so you can pick three or four instead of submitting everywhere.

The short answer

Choose one or two launch boards, one community your users already read, and one directory where people compare tools. For a developer tool that might be DevHunt, Show HN and AlternativeTo. For a pre-launch product, BetaList and Indie Hackers. Check each board's free queue before you plan a date: on several of them a free launch waits weeks, and paying mainly buys you the date.

We checked every platform below on its own pages on 28 October 2026. Prices and queues change often, so confirm them on the submit form.

Daily launch boards

Product Hunt

Launching is free. Each day runs on Pacific time, Product Hunt suggests going live at 12:01am PST to get the full 24 hours, and you can schedule a launch up to a month ahead. Its team chooses which launches to feature, so not every launch gets the same exposure. It suits consumer apps and AI tools with a broad audience, and it rewards teams who can be present all day.

Weekly launch boards

A weekly board gives you seven days instead of one, which suits a small team that cannot spend a whole day answering comments. Our guide on picking a launch day explains why the start of the week matters there.

Peerlist Launchpad

The launch window opens every Monday and a launch runs for the week. You need a verified Peerlist profile to launch.

DevHunt

A weekly board for developer tools only, voted on by developers, with open source code. A basic listing is free. Picking your launch week is part of a paid Launch tier, $19 as of October 2026.

What’s New Today

This is our site, so weigh this entry accordingly. It is a weekly board for SaaS, AI and developer tools that runs Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59 UTC. Rank is a published formula, mostly counted clicks with bots and repeats removed, plus votes and freshness; money is not an input. A free listing needs our badge on your site and joins the next Monday board with room, since free launches are capped each week. A paid Priority Launch needs no badge and lets you pick the week. Details are on How we rank and Pricing.

Smaller launch boards with a free queue

These work in a similar way: a free launch goes into a line, and a fee gets you a date. They are quick to submit to once your listing text is ready.

• Uneed has daily rankings. A free launch gets a date at the back of the line and needs a launch-day upvote score of 10 to stay published. As of October 2026, a fast-track that assigns a slot in about 14 days costs $14.99, and choosing your own date costs $39.99.
• Fazier lists free launches within 30 days, provided you link to Fazier from your homepage or footer. Paid launches from $29 as of October 2026 let you publish straight away or schedule a date.
• TinyLaunch has a free standard launch in a queue. A premium launch, $39 as of October 2026, skips the queue.
• Microlaunch gives a launch 30 days of visibility rather than a single day. Its paid plans let you pick the launch date; we could not confirm on its site whether a free launch is currently offered.

Pre-launch lists

BetaList

BetaList features technology startups that are new to its audience, whether pre-launch, in beta or already live. There is no free submission: every submission is paid, the price is shown at the end of the form, and you get a full refund if your startup is not selected. You need your own domain. It is most useful before launch, when you want early users on a waitlist.

Communities

Communities can send the most engaged visitors on this list, but only if you follow their rules and post as a person, not as an advert.

• Show HN on Hacker News is for things people can try now. Sign-up pages, landing pages and reading material do not qualify. Start the title with "Show HN", explain how and why you built it, make it easy to try without signing up, and do not ask friends to upvote. It suits developer tools and anything technical.
• Indie Hackers is a community of founders with a forum and product pages. Posts about what you learned, with numbers, do better there than announcements.
• Subreddits such as r/SideProject, or the one where your users talk about their work, can help. Each sets its own self-promotion rules, so read them first.

Directories and alternatives sites

These are not launch events. People arrive by searching for an alternative to a tool they already use, so a listing keeps working after launch week.

• SaaSHub is a software marketplace built around alternatives and reviews. Its Submit tool is free; a Featured Listing costs $99 a month as of October 2026.
• AlternativeTo lets any registered user suggest an app, and every suggestion is reviewed. The site says many apps in the free queue are not looked at for a very long time. A paid priority review, usually done within one or two business days, moves you to the front but does not buy approval.

For review sites such as G2 and how to judge a directory before you submit, see which SaaS directories are worth submitting to. Our guide to directory links explains what a listing link does and does not do for search.

Match the platform to the product

• Developer tool: DevHunt, Show HN, Peerlist Launchpad, then AlternativeTo against the tools you replace.
• AI tool: Product Hunt if you can be present all day, a weekly board, and the subreddit where your users work. Lead with what it does, not the model behind it.
• B2B SaaS: SaaSHub and AlternativeTo, where buyers compare options, plus a weekly board.
• Consumer app: Product Hunt, then a couple of the smaller boards. Make sure it works on a phone first.
• Not launched yet: BetaList and an Indie Hackers post about what you are building.

Write the listing once and reuse it; our listing guide goes field by field.

How to tell which ones sent real visitors

A board's visitor claims tell you little about your listing. Tag each listing link with UTM parameters, a different utm_source per platform, and after a month compare sign-ups, not visits. Check whether the site shows a click count for your listing and labels its paid placements. Our guide on checking whether a directory sends real traffic walks through it.

Keep the two or three places that sent people who stayed, update those listings when you ship, and skip the rest next time. When you are ready, you can submit your product here as one of them.