# How to get a startup recommended by AI assistants

Source: https://bestlaunchplatforms.com

> AI visibility for startups starts on your own site: crawlable facts, FAQs, and an llms.txt. Then list on AlternativeTo, There's An AI For That, SaaSHub, and PeerPush, collect G2 reviews if you are B2B, and earn genuine Reddit or HN threads. Launch boards help less than comparison directories for assistant citations.

GEO for launches: which directories ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews actually draw on, and what has to be true on your own site first.

## Assistants do not watch launch day

A 24-hour leaderboard is a human ritual. Retrieval systems care about pages that still exist, with facts that agree with each other. If your homepage is a slogan and your directory listings contradict your pricing page, the model will either skip you or invent a compromise.


## Make a canonical fact sheet

On your own domain, publish a page that states what the product is, who it is for, what it is not, pricing shape, integrations, and a short FAQ. Add /llms.txt that points at that page. This website exists partly as that kind of source for launch platforms; your product needs its own.

- One H1 that a model can quote.
- FAQ in HTML, not only in a JS widget.
- Consistent name, spelling, and category across the site and directories.
- No invented user counts. Models amplify them.

## List where engines already look

AlternativeTo for “alternatives to X.” There's An AI For That, Toolify, and FutureTools for AI-task pages. SaaSHub for SaaS comparisons. G2 for “best X software.” PeerPush if you want a GEO-native listing. Reddit and Hacker News if you can earn a real thread. These are the practical 2026 set. New GEO startups will keep appearing; the pattern will not change: structured third-party corroboration.


## Boards are still useful — for humans

Product Hunt, Uneed, and Peerlist remain worth doing. A small weekly such as EarlyHunt or MakerHunt can be the rehearsal if that is already the room you browse — they are not a substitute for TAAFT or AlternativeTo. Boards produce screenshots, backlinks, and a burst of users who will write the reviews and comments that later get retrieved. Just do not confuse a #3 badge with being in the training or retrieval set.


## FAQ
### What is GEO?
Generative engine optimization: making a product easy for answer engines to retrieve and cite without hallucinating. It is mostly structured, factual, crawlable content plus listings in sources those engines already trust.

### Which launch platforms help ChatGPT citations?
Directories and discussions more than daily boards: AlternativeTo, There's An AI For That, SaaSHub, G2, Reddit, Hacker News, and GEO-oriented listings like PeerPush. Product Hunt still gets cited for “what launched” queries.