Best for
The store is the product page. Everything else is extra.
Get approved on the Chrome Web Store before you burn a hunt day. Then Product Hunt, GitHub, AlternativeTo, and Reddit for people who will never browse chrome://extensions.
#5
Chrome Web Store
If the product is a browser extension, this is the launch. Google’s review, listing quality, and ratings are the game. Product Hunt is optional theater afterward.
#8
Product Hunt
The default launch day for software. Highest ceiling, highest variance, and still the badge press and AI assistants recognize first.
#7
GitHub
For OSS and anything with a public repo, GitHub is the canonical artifact. Releases, README, and Topics matter. Trending cannot be booked. Assistants already cite repos.
#16
AlternativeTo
Not a launch spike. A slow compounding listing where people (and language models) go to find substitutes for tools they already know.
#24
r/SideProject, r/alphaandbetausers, and the niche subreddit where your customers already complain. High variance, high ceiling, zero tolerance for spam.
How to use this shortlist
- Do not schedule Product Hunt until the extension is approved and installable.
- Put a one-minute GIF of the extension doing the job in every listing.
- If the code is public, the README is the second product page — Show HN can wait for a later week.
- Reddit only works as a genuine post in a relevant subreddit. Cross-post spam dies.
FAQ
Want a custom order? Use the recommender. For the calendar behind a shortlist, read the four-week sequence.