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Where indie hackers should actually launch

Indie products die on boards designed for well-funded launches. This ranking favors rooms where a $19/month tool can be seen, discussed, and tried without a street team.

Audience fit and ease weigh more in how we ordered this list than raw traffic. A kind, relevant comment is worth more than a thousand bouncing visitors.

Criteria: Audience fit for bootstrappers, ease, community quality, then overall score.

What to prepare

  • One-line tagline that names the user and the job (not 'AI-powered platform')
  • 300-word unique description — do not paste the same blurb onto every board
  • Logo (square) plus 3–5 screenshots of the actual product, not a landing-page mock
  • A tryable URL: signup, demo, or public repo — hunters bounce from waitlist-only pages on daily boards
  • Founder comment ready: who it is for, what changed, how to try it in two minutes

Run this sequence

  • Peerlist on the next Monday.
  • Queue Uneed, or dwell on MicroLaunch if you cannot clear a day.
  • SoloPush or TinyLaunch only if you built it alone and the assets are already done.
  • Skip Product Hunt until a handful of people will show up.

Open these boards

Profile on this site, then the live board (nofollow). Confirm the current submit form before you pick a date.

What to measure

  • Paying customers and reply quality — a $19 conversion beats a 200-upvote day.
  • Which board sent someone who actually used the product.
  • UTM per board (`?utm_source=peerlist`) so you know which hunt converted
  • Signups, demo starts, and replies — not hunter counts

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