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Eleven places to launch instead of TinyLaunch, or as well as it, with prices, free-queue waits and link rules checked on each platform's own pages on 3 November 2026.
Our own platform, so weigh this entry accordingly. LaunchIt launches products every day instead of every week, so you choose a day rather than a Monday window, and every listing keeps a permanent page with votes, reviews, and links from categories, tags and alternatives pages. Free launches need our badge on your site and join a queue (the next free date was 6 January 2027 when we checked). Premium is $24.99 one-time: any open day from tomorrow, a guaranteed homepage spot all launch day, a verified badge, a newsletter feature and a submission to our partner directory DirPilot.
The closest daily alternative, with a large indie audience: Uneed says it has 125K monthly visitors and 26,000 newsletter subscribers. Free launches are possible but slow: on 3 November the next free date it assigned was 8 June 2027, and a free launch needs an upvote score of 10 on the day to stay published (20 to keep a dofollow link). Fast-track at $14.99 gets a date about two weeks out, and Skip the line at $39.99 lets you pick the day, about what TinyLaunch Premium costs.
Daily launches at midnight Pacific time, with daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards and permanent listings; about 80 products were listed under Today when we checked. The free Basic launch is reviewed within 30 days and needs a link to Fazier on your homepage or footer. Lite ($29, discounted from $39) lets you publish now or schedule, with no link required, and Premium ($49) adds 15 days of promotion and a dofollow link.
The most like-for-like weekly format: launches open every Monday (UTC) and run for the week, ranked on upvotes, comments, views and link visits rather than votes alone. Launching is free but needs a verified individual Peerlist profile: no company pages, and agencies may not launch for clients. Only the top five of each week get a backlink. The audience is technical: 58% software engineers and 22% founders and CTOs, by Peerlist's own figures.
Another weekly leaderboard, Monday to Sunday in UTC, with 40 launches in its last full week. The free launch needs a visible LaunchAF badge on your site and usually waits 30+ days, and the listing is delisted if the badge comes off. Alpha ($19) publishes the same day with a dofollow link and no badge; Beta ($39) adds 30 days featured and a written review. Paid launches rank above free ones. It is younger and smaller than TinyLaunch (Ahrefs DR 56).
Monthly instead of weekly: a launch campaign runs for 30 days, with monthly and weekly rankings and a daily Product of the Day, and its November cohort counter showed 311 products on the 3rd. We could not find a free launch on its own pages: the submit link leads to Launch Pro, $49 list price ($39 with the discount code shown on the page), which lets you go live now or schedule and includes a dofollow link. Run by Stimpack SAS in Paris.
For developer tools only, launched in weekly batches that go live every Tuesday, with voting through a GitHub or Google sign-in. A free listing is a permanent page with a nofollow link; a $49 launch lets you choose your week, adds a newsletter spot and makes the link dofollow. DevHunt says it has 40,000 newsletter subscribers and 150K page views a month. If your tiny product is a dev tool, this audience fits better than a general board.
The biggest launch stage in tech, and free: launches go live at 12:01 AM Pacific Time for one 24-hour day and can be scheduled up to a month ahead. The catch is curation: Product Hunt's team picks which launches reach the homepage, and a launch that is not featured does not compete for Product of the Day. Best used once smaller launches have sharpened your pitch and you have supporters ready.
For early-stage startups, picked by editors rather than votes: about 20 a day on the site and in a daily newsletter, which BetaList says reaches 70,000+ subscribers. There is no free option any more: you pay at checkout (the price is shown only there) and get a full refund if the editors pass. The rules are strict: tech startups only, on your own domain, with a page where visitors can sign up.
A founder community rather than a launch board, and the same crowd that browses TinyLaunch. Adding your product to its database and posting are free, though new accounts wait before they can post (IH+, $198 a year, removes the wait). Milestone posts and honest build-in-public stories work; promotional posts do not. Indie Hackers says it has 300,000+ members.
Not a launch but a permanent listing where people search for replacements to software they already use. Suggesting your app is free, but the review queue holds several thousand apps and AlternativeTo gives no date; paid priority review (price shown at checkout) usually takes 1 to 2 business days. Links to apps are nofollow, so the value is the visitors, not the link.
Checked on 3 November 2026 by Brian Millot, who runs LaunchIt. LaunchIt is one of the platforms on this list, so weigh our entry accordingly. Prices, queue dates and rules come from each platform's own pages on that day, and DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating, checked the same day. Platforms change their rules often, so check before you pay.
TinyLaunch runs weekly launch periods that start every Monday. Products are ranked by upvotes, and the top three of each week get a badge and a backlink. On 3 November 2026 its current week listed more than 560 launches.
None of this makes TinyLaunch a bad choice: it is free, friendly and busy, and many makers run it alongside other launches. For the full head-to-head with our own platform, including where TinyLaunch wins, read LaunchIt vs TinyLaunch.
| Platform | Format | Free option (3 Nov 2026) | Paid from | Link | DR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TinyLaunch | Weekly, from Monday | Yes, next free week 7 Dec 2026 | $39 | Dofollow with Premium or a weekly top 3 finish | 74 |
| LaunchIt | Daily | Yes, with our badge on your site; next free date 6 Jan 2027 | $24.99 | Dofollow | 71 |
| Uneed | Daily | Yes, next free date 8 Jun 2027; needs an upvote score of 10 on the day | $14.99 | Dofollow (free launches need a score of 20) | 77 |
| Fazier | Daily, plus weekly and monthly boards | Yes, reviewed within 30 days; needs a link to Fazier | $29 | Dofollow from $49 | 84 |
| Peerlist Launchpad | Weekly, from Monday | Yes, needs a verified Peerlist profile | $29 a day (featured) | Top 5 of the week only | 78 |
| LaunchAF | Weekly, Monday to Sunday | Yes, with its badge; usually 30+ days | $19 | Dofollow (free needs the badge) | 56 |
| MicroLaunch | Monthly, 30-day campaign | Not published | $49 ($39 with a code) | Dofollow on paid launches | 64 |
| DevHunt | Weekly, from Tuesday | Listing only, nofollow | $49 | Dofollow on paid launches | 70 |
| Product Hunt | Daily, 24 hours on Pacific time | Yes; the team picks which launches reach the homepage | None (ads only) | Not stated | 91 |
| BetaList | Daily, picked by editors | No; full refund if not picked | Price shown at checkout | Dofollow if featured | 77 |
| Indie Hackers | Community forum | Yes; new accounts wait before posting | $198 a year (IH+) | Not stated | 82 |
| AlternativeTo | Permanent directory | Yes, but the review queue has no date | Priority review, price at checkout | Nofollow | 82 |
"Paid from" is the cheapest paid launch or listing. Featured spots, ads and directory services cost extra on most platforms.
Queue times and rules for 21 platforms are in where to launch your startup in 2026.
Yes. A Standard launch costs nothing, but it waits in a queue of 100 free slots a week: on 3 November 2026 the next free week started on 7 December. Without paying, the badge and backlink go only to the weekly top three. The $39 Premium launch skips the queue and includes a dofollow link.
It depends on how soon you want to launch. Product Hunt is free and can be scheduled up to a month ahead (new accounts wait a week before posting). Peerlist launches every Monday once your profile is verified, and Fazier reviews free launches within 30 days if you link to it from your site. Uneed is free too, but its next free date was 8 June 2027 when we checked.
LaunchAF Alpha ($19), LaunchIt Premium ($24.99), Fazier Lite ($29) and Uneed Skip the line ($39.99) all let you choose the day. Product Hunt is free and lets you schedule up to a month ahead. TinyLaunch Premium ($39) lets you choose the week.
Some do, with conditions. Uneed's free launches keep a dofollow link with an upvote score of 20 on launch day; LaunchAF's free launches get one while its badge stays on your site; DevHunt, MicroLaunch and Fazier give one on paid launches; LaunchIt's listings link dofollow; Peerlist links only the top five of each week; AlternativeTo's links are nofollow. Treat a link as a bonus, not the reason to launch.
TinyLaunch does not publish a weekly figure. On 3 November 2026 its homepage showed more than 560 launches in the current week, with 100 free slots in each weekly window.
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