Co-founder at SuperLaunch.io
Product Hunt used to be the great equalizer for indie founders. Launch on a Tuesday, get 300 upvotes, wake up to your first 1,000 users. That era is over. In 2026, Product Hunt is dominated by well-funded teams with pre-built audiences, coordinated upvote campaigns, and PR agencies
If you are searching for Futurepedia alternatives, you are probably weighing one of two things: the $247 to $497 listing fee, or the fact that your tool could get buried in a catalog of over 5,000 other AI products. Futurepedia has earned its reputation as one of the largest
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If you built an AI product, There's An AI For That (TAAFT) is probably already on your radar. It's one of the biggest AI tool directories around, tracking hundreds of tools across dozens of categories since 2022. But here's the problem nobody tells you
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Most founders launch once. They pick Product Hunt, cross their fingers, and hope the algorithm is kind that Tuesday. That's a mistake. A single launch platform gives you a single shot at a single audience — and most early-stage products need more than one shot to find their
If you know anything about ranking a website on Google and other search engines, you must be aware of backlinks and their importance. 💡The data backs this up clearly. Backlinko and Ahrefs analyzed 11.8 million search results and found that the #1 ranking page in Google has on average
If you've been Googling "BetaList alternatives" at 1 AM with a lukewarm coffee and a submission form open in another tab, you're in the right place. We pulled keyword and SERP data to see what people are actually searching for around this topic, dug
Search "product launch tools" and you'll find lists that put a CRM, a screen recorder, and an invoicing app in the same bucket, as if launching a product were one activity. It isn't. A community launch on Reddit needs a completely different stack than
Every year, around 30,000 new consumer products hit the market. Roughly 95% of them fail. Here's the uncomfortable part: most of those products weren't bad. They had thoughtful features, decent design, maybe even a few delighted early users. What they didn't have was
If you've launched an AI product in the last year, you already know the market is crowded. Thousands of tools compete for the same handful of use cases, and organic search traffic is harder to earn than ever. One of the fastest, cheapest ways to get discovered — and
In September 2024, a founder named Tomas Blatak launched his flagship product on Product Hunt. It was the most-upvoted launch for most of the day. It finished with 612 upvotes. It never got featured. Total paying customers from the launch: one. Fifteen months earlier, the same founder launched a
You spent weeks prepping. You wrote the tagline twelve different ways. You lined up your first comment. You set an alarm for midnight PST because that’s when the Product Hunt day “starts,” and somehow that detail felt important enough to lose sleep over. You launched. You refreshed the page
For ten years, Steven Lemmens carried a kind of weight most people never see. He ran customer service divisions at two different companies, and the job never really changed shape: too many customers, never enough hands, and a quiet belief that none of it had to be this hard. He