BetaList now charges for every submission. If you want a free route, more than one day of exposure, or a home for a product past the beta stage, these are the places to look. Facts as of October 2026.
BetaList is a site where early adopters discover upcoming and recently launched internet startups, and where founders share theirs to get early users and feedback. Marc Köhlbrugge started it in 2010. It only takes pre-launch and recently launched tech startups on their own domain, with a landing page of their own.
As of October 2026, its FAQ says all submissions are paid and there is no free option. It used to have one. If BetaList does not select your startup, the payment is refunded in full. A featured startup appears on BetaList for a day, and a startup can be featured at most twice: once before launch and once at launch. Featured startups can buy a Boost for $99 a week or $199 a month.
BetaList says it has featured over 24,000 startups and has 500,000+ pageviews a month. Those are its own figures.
Ten places to launch or list an early-stage product, plus SaaSCity, measured on the same points: format, free route and cheapest paid option.
Ordered by Ahrefs Domain Rating from our directory dataset, highest first, SaaSCity included. DR measures the strength of the site’s own domain. It says nothing about how many customers a launch brings.
| Platform | DR | Format | Free option | Paid from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 91 | Daily launch board | Yes. Posting is free | None needed to launch |
| Hacker News (Show HN) | 91 | Show HN thread on a forum | Yes, always | None |
| Startup Fame | 84 | Reviewed startup directory | Yes, with its badge on your homepage; reviewed within 7 days | Highlight $19 a month |
| Fazier | 83 | Daily launch board | Yes. Reviewed and listed within 30 days; a link back to Fazier is required | Lite $29 (shown against $39) |
| Indie Hackers | 81 | Forum, product database and build board | Yes, with a free account | None needed |
| Peerlist Launchpad | 77 | Weekly Launchpad on a builder network | Yes. Needs a verified personal profile | Featured Launch from $29 |
| Uneed | 76 | Daily launch board | Yes. Your date is set 30 days to 5 months out | Fast-track $14.99, a slot in about 14 days |
| Tiny Startups | 71 | Curated directory with a weekly leaderboard | Yes, after you verify with a post; approved by hand | Instant listing $69 |
| PitchWall (formerly BetaPage) | 68 | Daily product launches | Yes, after a wait of at least 30 days | Pro Launch $49, about a 2-week wait |
| SaaSCity | 65 | Weekly launch cohort on a city map | Yes. Launches on the first Monday with one of 15 weekly free slots open | Quick Pass $19.99, skips the queue |
| Launching Next | 54 | Daily startup showcase | Yes. Reviewed daily; you hear back only if it publishes you | $99 to be considered within 1 business day |
Products launch for a day and compete for Product of the Day. You post from a personal account, and the Product Hunt team picks which launches it features; waitlist-only products are not featured unless people get access right away.
Show HN is for things people can try now. Sign-up pages, landing pages and fundraisers are off topic, and asking friends to upvote is against the rules.
A reviewed directory more than a launch board. A founder profile page can list all of your startups in one place.
Daily launches with weekly and monthly leaderboards. The paid tiers let you publish now or pick a date, and drop the link-back requirement.
You can add your product to its products database and post your launch and updates. Posts feed the Build Board, a daily leaderboard of build-in-public posts.
A launch week opens every Monday. Projects launch from a personal profile, must be complete, and rank on upvotes, comments, views and visits.
A daily launchpad with community votes and rankings by day, week, month and year. A free launch needs an upvote score of 10 on launch day to stay published.
Every listing is approved by hand. Popular startups go into a weekly newsletter that it says reaches 25,000+ founders.
BetaPage now redirects here. It says it welcomes beta and alpha products, which puts it closest to BetaList’s early-stage focus on this list.
A SaaS launch directory drawn as a city map, where each product is a building with its own page. Free launches wait for an open Monday slot, and our badge on your site makes the free link dofollow; Quick Pass ($19.99) skips the queue and the badge after a human review, and Premium ($39.99) adds a launch post we write.
A long-running showcase of new startups and side projects, with over 45,000 featured by its own count. A free submission is not guaranteed a spot.
SaaSCity is a launch directory for SaaS and AI tools, drawn as a city map, on a DR 65 domain. It has the free route BetaList dropped: your launch takes the first Monday with one of 15 free slots open, or $19.99 skips the queue. It is not built around pre-launch startups and has no newsletter, so for a beta that needs early adopters, PitchWall or BetaList itself fit better. For more options, see the best SaaS directories and our Product Hunt alternatives.
Prices, queues and rules are as of October 2026 and were read on each platform’s own site. They change often, so check the platform before you pay. DR figures come from our directory dataset (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and can move a few points between checks.