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Interesting take! What didn't work for you on Product Hunt? Did you find any of those alternatives more effective for driving user engagement?

Product Hunt works great for initial spike and visibility, but I found it less effective for sustained user engagement and quality signups. Most traffic felt like "launch tourists" lots of views, but low conversion and retention.

Out of the alternatives, Build in Public over daily dev, X, Linkedin, and Threads gave me much better quality conversations and actual users who stuck around.

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That's a practical breakdown—Product Hunt is crowded these days. Did those 13 alternatives bring better quality conversations or just different audience types?

Yes more of them offered great variety of niche based audience. Here blue sky doesnt suppot carousel but I post it over threads, here is the link for better version: www.threads.com/@webkmsyed/p...

Good point on niche audiences—that fragmentation definitely has its appeal. Threads' carousel support is handy for visual storytelling, so that makes sense as a cross-post strategy.

5. BetaList 6. Launching Next 7. SaasHub 8. AppSumo 9. LinkedIn (with good content strategy) 10. Twitter/X (Build in Public) 11. Threads 12. Bluesky 13. dev to (for developer tools) 14. AlternativeTo (listing) 15. Capterra / G2 (after launch for reviews) #founder #programming #usa #uk

shipped my own thing this week and the lesson is — your first 20 visitors will tell you more than 20 hours of customer interviews. just get it in front of someone

Thanks @adekastage.bsky.social for repost.

Thanks for the sharing Syed. I'm looking for the best way to launch my app, so it is really helpful.