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I wasted my launch on Product Hunt. Here are 13 better places with it: 1. Product Hunt - Most popular for indie launches 2. Hacker News (Show HN) - Great for technical products 3. Indie Hackers - Perfect for bootstrapped SaaS 4. Reddit (r/SaaS, r/indiehackers) 👇 Others ... #saas #indieDev

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.

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