Recommender
Where should you submit this week?
Stage, buyer, and goal — then four platforms, in order. This is editorial matching, not a paid auction.
Your shortlist
Launch these next
Ordered for your answers, not for brand fame. Read the profiles before you submit — queues and rules matter.
How to use the shortlist
01
Read the profile first
Queues, badge-for-dofollow rules, and review windows are on the platform page. The recommender does not skip those.
02
One comment-heavy day at a time
Product Hunt, Show HN, Reddit, and Hunt-network boards all want you in the thread. Stacking them is how you ghost the only room that showed up.
03
Listings are a different afternoon
AlternativeTo, TAAFT, Crunchbase, G2 — claim them when the facts are stable. They do not replace a launch. They keep working after Friday.
Stacks we actually ship
The recommender is a starting order. These are sequences we write about when founders ask for a calendar, not a logo collage. All jobs.
No audience, indie SaaS
BetaList → Uneed or IndieHunt → Product Hunt only if the one-liner survived week 2 → AlternativeTo.
Open the best-for page →
Developer tool
Ship the README. DevHunt as rehearsal → Show HN on a different day → GitHub topics. Product Hunt optional.
Open the best-for page →
B2B SaaS
Crunchbase + G2/Capterra claim → LinkedIn operator post → optional Uneed/PH for awareness. Pipeline is not a leaderboard.
Open the best-for page →
AI product that needs citations
Fact sheet on your domain → AlternativeTo + TAAFT → PeerPush. Boards still help humans write the comments models later retrieve.
Open the best-for page →
AI product for humans
Demo first. EarlyHunt as the weekly room → TAAFT / FutureTools / Toolify in the same month. Hugging Face if there is a Space.
Open the best-for page →
Side project
SideHunt or Smol Launch while it still looks unfinished. Tiny Startups if founders buy it. Product Hunt later, if at all.
Open the best-for page →
What this will not do
- Guarantee traffic. Ranges on platform pages are planning estimates.
- Assume you need every Hunt-network board the same week — pick the cadence and niche that fit.
- Treat Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice as three launches.
- Recommend vote rings, hunter Slack armies, or purchased reviews.
- Replace a landing page that cannot convert a curious click.
Keep reading
- Four-week launch sequence — the calendar behind the shortlist.
- Where should you launch a startup? — stage and buyer without the form.
- Launch boards vs directories — the job split most lists blur.
- The Hunt network — Aura++, IndieHunt, and the rest of the family.