Product Hunt ranks a launch by the upvotes it collects in a single day. If the day goes well you get a spike of visitors. If it does not, the launch is over and the board has moved on to the next day.
That is why most makers now launch in more than one place. The platforms below rank you in different ways, reach different people, and cost different amounts. Pick by what you want from a launch, not by which name is biggest.
Listing costs 50 tokens, which one verified share on X covers. A bid of 121 tokens then puts a new listing at #1, and the $3 pack (290 tokens) covers it. With 4 products on the board, every listing is on the first page. These numbers are live, read from the leaderboard when this page loaded.
| Platform | How you get seen | Cost | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaunchBid | Rank is the total of tokens bid on you. Totals never reset. | Free with one verified X share, token packs from $1 | A permanent spot whose position you decide |
| Uneed | Community upvotes on a launch board, with a launch date assigned to you | Free queue (date up to 5 months out), $14.99 fast-track, $29.99 to pick your date | Indie makers and SaaS tools |
| Peerlist Launchpad | Upvotes on a launch board inside the Peerlist network | Free | Developers and designers building a following |
| Fazier | A daily board with voting and ranking | Free, with paid options | SaaS, AI tools and indie projects |
| BetaList | A listing for products that have not launched yet | Free, with paid options | Collecting waitlist signups before launch |
| Hacker News (Show HN) | Upvotes and comments from the Hacker News community | Free | Developer tools and technical products |
| DevHunt |
A Product Hunt launch is a 24-hour contest. Your result depends on who else launches that day and on how many people you can bring to vote.
Upvote boards reward makers who already have followers to ask. A good product from an unknown maker can finish the day unseen.
After launch day the page stays up but the traffic moves on to the next day's launches. A launch is an event, not a standing position.
Three questions. The answer is not always LaunchBid.
Answer all three and the pick appears here.
It depends on what you want from a launch. For a similar vote-based launch, Uneed, Peerlist Launchpad and Fazier are the closest. For a technical audience, Show HN and DevHunt. For a permanent listing whose rank you set yourself, LaunchBid, where rank is the total of tokens bid and totals never reset.
Yes. Show HN, Indie Hackers, Peerlist Launchpad and AlternativeTo are free. Uneed has a free queue where the launch date is assigned to you. LaunchBid is free to list with one verified share on X, which earns the 50 tokens a listing costs.
Yes, for makers who want certainty. On Product Hunt your result depends on votes and timing on one day. On LaunchBid you bid tokens, your rank is exactly the total bid on your product, and that total never resets.
If you have an audience ready to vote on the day, yes. It is still the best-known launch day in tech. Many makers pair it with a platform that keeps working after launch day, so one bad day does not decide the whole launch.
One token more than the current leader's total. The live figure is shown on this page and on the leaderboard. Listing costs 50 tokens, which one verified share on X covers, and token packs start at $1.
Paste a link. One verified share on X covers the listing, no sign-up. Comparing bid boards instead? See the outbid.lol alternatives.
| Developer upvotes on a weekly launch board |
| No launch fee listed |
| Dev tools and open source |
| Indie Hackers | A community post and the discussion under it, not a ranking | Free | Bootstrapped and solo founders |
| There's An AI For That | An entry in a large directory of AI tools | Submission listed at $437 | AI products with a budget |
| AlternativeTo | An evergreen entry people find when they search for alternatives | Free | Steady discovery from search |
| AppSumo | A marketplace that sells lifetime deals | Revenue share | Revenue now, not attention |
Reviewed October 2026. Costs marked * were read from the platform's own pricing page. The rest are as publicly reported and change often, so check the platform before you pay.
Yes, and it usually works better spread out than stacked on one day. Pick one main launch, then add two or three platforms over the following weeks so each one gets your attention when its traffic arrives.