Best for
Nights-and-weekends products need small rooms, not a company costume.
SideHunt, Smol Launch, MakerHunt, and WIP are built for unfinished, honest builds. Tiny Startups helps if other founders are the buyer. Skip funded-company theater.
#55
SideHunt
Monday UTC week, free/nofollow/Premium $19, homepage for seven days. Best when the product still looks like a side project. Same Hunt network as Aura++.
#71
Smol Launch
Capped at a handful of launches per week. Indie-friendly moderation. Easy to miss if you do not submit on Monday.
#49
MakerHunt
Same Monday UTC mechanic as the other Hunt weeklies, pitched at makers who will actually try the product. Useful as a feedback room; not a second traffic plan.
#75
WIP
WIP rewards people who already posted todos. A stranger dropping a launch link gets nothing. If you live there, launch there.
#40
Tiny Startups
Daily leaderboard plus a list of bootstrapped founders. Excellent if your buyer is another maker. Useless if you sell to dentists.
How to use this shortlist
- Tell the side-project story: scope, stack, what is unfinished. Deck-speak fails here.
- Book SideHunt before the free-slot cap fills; Premium skips the cap.
- Smol Launch is often Monday-only — assets need to be ready Sunday.
- WIP only works if you have been shipping in public; it is not a cold directory.
FAQ
Want a custom order? Use the recommender. For the calendar behind a shortlist, read the four-week sequence.