this is so true

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Hi everyone, I’ve got some good news! I recently sold my site getelectricaljobs.com, a small job board I built in just a few days, working a few hours each day.

It’s not life-changing, but for me it feels like a huge milestone especially considering that just six months ago I didn’t even know how to use GitHub and had zero coding experience. It’s a reminder that even small wins can really add up and open doors.

For anyone just starting out: keep building, experimenting, learning, and most importantly be patient. That’s the key!

Hey everyone,

Today I’d like to share one of my projects with you: willtheyconvert.com. I actually built it a while ago, but it’s still one of my favorite little tools.

The idea is simple: it helps you test if people would actually pay for your subscription or product. You just generate a “Buy” button, and when someone clicks it and starts entering their details, you can show them a message that the app is still in progress (don’t worry – no card data is collected or saved).

Here’s a quick demo: https://willtheyconvert.com/demos#payment

This way, you don’t need to build a full product, set up Stripe, webhooks, or a whole app that maybe no one would ever use. Instead, you can just launch a landing page and promote it as if the product already exists. You’ll avoid the usual “Looks great!” or “Awesome idea!” comments that sometimes end up meaning… nobody was ever ready to buy. With this tool, you can see if people actually click “buy” in the first place.

You can also collect emails from those who clicked, so once the product is ready, you can reach out directly.

When testing this app myself, I experimented with different payment models:

• First I tried a monthly subscription (no trial). It sold 2–3 copies right after launch, and then nothing.
• Then I switched to a lifetime deal – sales picked up.
• I got greedy and changed it to an annual subscription (with a 3-day trial) – sales dropped again.
• A couple of weeks ago I switched back to lifetime only, removed the trial completely – sales started moving again.

For apps like this, I really think the lifetime model works best, and ironically it seems to convert better.

Hope you found this interesting and as always, keep shipping 🚀🔥

LaunchDirectories.com got a shoutout in the 'Product Hunt is Dead' post, and my traffic absolutely spiked at 4 AM.

Seriously appreciate that mention! It's incredible what a single post can do.

when ur startup finally crosses $50 MRR

Backlinks in 4 weeks.

List your tiny startup on every solid directory you can find. Not just for the clicks-those links build your domain rating, boost SEO, and make your product discoverable for LLMs.

The lazy way to level up visibility.

LaunchDirectories has been getting so much traffic lately that I just maxed out my DataFast plan :)

Crabclear just 5 days after listing on launch directories

Hey everyone 👋

I run LaunchDirectories.com

It's a curated list of startup launch platforms (like Product Hunt, BetaList, IndieHackers, etc.), where founders can submit their products.

To make it more useful, every month I update the Domain Rating (DR) of these directories. DR is an Ahrefs metric (0–100) that shows how strong a site’s backlink profile is. In short: the higher the DR, the more authority and SEO value you can get when launching your product there.

This month’s update came a bit early 😅 and here are the highlights:

📈 Top 3 Gains

• Firsto (+18)
• PeerPush (+7)
• Startups Lab (+7)

📉 Top 3 Drops

• FindYourSaaS (−8)
• Openhunts (−5)
• DevHunt (−4)

You can check the full list (with all DRs) here 👉 launchdirectories.com

Curious to hear your thoughts:

• Do you look at DR when choosing where to launch?
• Should I also track other metrics (like traffic estimates, social reach)?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a small win 🎉 and the story behind it — how my site grew to about 5.8k monthly views in less than 2 months.

50 days ago, I launched launchdirectories.com — a simple, searchable database of places where you can submit and promote your new product or startup.

Why did I build it? Because every time I launched something, I’d spend hours googling “SaaS directories” or hunting through outdated blog posts, trying to figure out where to submit my product. It was frustrating and inefficient.

So I put together a spreadsheet with 52 launch directories and shared it on Reddit. It got over 400 upvotes, which was amazing, but people wanted more data like domain ratings, traffic stats, SEO info, and whether the links are dofollow or not.

I realized this was a real need, so overnight I built LaunchDirectories.com (initially spent just 5 hours on it) — now it features over 80 curated launch directories, sortable by Domain Rating and other useful metrics.

No signups, no paywalls, no bullshi* — just a website to save you time and help you get more visibility for your projects.

According to SimpleAnalytics, the site is already getting 5.8k+ monthly views, and I’ve heard from people saying it’s actually saved them hours and helped them gain traction.

I know it’s not some massive success story, but honestly, this number of monthly views still blows me away.