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Sep 13

Product Hunt Alternatives Indie Hackers Actually Use in 2026

Skip the “top 10” dump. Here’s how I pick launch platforms when a one-day leaderboard isn’t the right move.

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1d ago

My “Not Found” pages were telling every tool 200 OK

I tested a fake URL on every route. Three showed a Not Found page but answered 200 OK, so link checkers can’t tell a page is gone.

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2d ago

Your domain probably lets any CA issue a certificate for it

Last Thursday I ran a CAA lookup on four of my own domains: uno.directory, indiehunt.io, auraplusplus.com and earlyhunt.com. All four came…

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6d ago

Stop trusting your backlink spreadsheet. It’s probably wrong by now.

Our backlink spreadsheet has a column called “follow”. Every directory gets one word in it: dofollow or nofollow. For months I trusted that…

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6d ago

Stop sending “please upvote” on Stop sending "please upvote" on launch day.

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Oct 27

My five launch sites had 1,219 visitors in a day. The launches got 15.

I run five launch sites. Aura++ does daily launches. IndieHunt, EarlyHunt, MakerHunt and SideHunt do weekly ones. All five are mine, so…

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Oct 26

Your og:image tag says 1200x630. The file might not.

Here’s a small thing I found on one of my own sites last week. The homepage of Aura++, a launch platform I run, has meta tags that say the…

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Oct 23

Stop typing UTM tags by hand in launch week

Launch week is when founders post the same link in more places than any other week of the year. A launch board, a few directories, a…

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Oct 22

Stop copying the “block all AI bots” robots.txt. It probably blocks AI search too.

There’s a robots.txt snippet going around that blocks “all the AI bots”. People paste it in because they don’t want their writing used to…

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Oct 20

Pick a launch board by its clock, not its DR

Most launch board comparisons sort by domain rating. Uneed around DR 74, Fazier around 59, MicroLaunch around 59, and so on. Fine, that…

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Praneet Brar

Founder building launch platforms for indie hackers. Writing launches, distribution & growth for builders. https://bestlaunchplatforms.com

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