How to find the first 100 users for your startup 🦄
Underrated Growth Hacks to Kickstart the MRR
1. Find buyers who are actively searching for the solution, using these 16 best buyer intent tools:
1.1 apollo .io
1.2. bombora .com
1.3. sell .g2 .com
1.4. cognism .com
1.5. zoominfo .com
1.6. kickfire .com
1.7. demandscience .com
1.8. lead411 .com
1.9. 6sense .com
1.10. cyance .com
1.11. leadforensics .com
1.12. clearbit .com
1.13. Linkedin Sales Navigator
1.14. flashintel .ai
1.15. seamless .ai
1.16. demandbase .com
2. Add the product to these 10 price-comparison sites:
2.1. g2 .com
2.2. capterra .com
2.3. getapp .com
2.4. softwareadvice .com
2.5. trustradius .com
2.6. saasgenius .com
2.7. itcentralstation .com
2.8. alternativeto .net
2.9. saasworthy .com
2.10. financesonline .com
3. Submit the startup to these 50 business directories:
1. Pitchwall .co
2. Betalist .com
3. Launchingnext .com
4. Killerstartups .com
5. 10words .io
6. Betabound .com
7. Feedough .com
8. Activesearchresults .com
9. Alternativeto .net
10. Startupbase .io
11. Thestartuppitch .com
12. Feedbear .com
13. Alternative .me
14. 9sites .net
15. Saashub .com
16. Appsumo .com
17. Producthunt .com
18. Merchantcircle .com
19. Elocal .com
20. Manta .com
21. Crazyaboutstartups .com
22. Eu-startups .com
23. Ebool .com
24. Exactseek .com
25. Foursquare .com
26. Lobste .rs
27. Makermove .com
28. Paggu .com
29. Startupbuffer .com
30. Startupguys .net
31. Startuplift .com
32. Startupranking .com
33. Startuptracker .io
34. Trendystartups .com
35. Trustpilot .com
36. Ventureradar .com
37. Yelp .com
38. Yellowpages .com
39. Foursquare .com
40. City-data .com
41. Chamberofcommerce .com
42. Dandb .com
43. Turbify .com
44. Ibegin .com
45. Cybo .com
46. Yellow .place
47. Hub .biz
48. Fyple .com
49. bbb .org
50. Hotfrog .com
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4. Launch the startup on these 20 Product Hunt alternatives:
1. startupstash .com
2. saashub .com
3. sideprojectors .com
4. launchingnext .com
5. launchlister .com
6. betalist .com
7. startupranking .com
8. crazyaboutstartups .com
9. hackernews .com
10. killerstartups .com
11. startupbuffer .com
12. startupbeat .com
13. thestartuppitch .com
14. startuplister .com
15. startupbase .io
16. makerlog .com
17. indiehackers .com
18. startupinspire .com
19. startups-list .com
20. erlibird .com
This is a killer list — thank you for dropping something actually useful and not just recycled startup advice.
As a founder building a circular pet food company (Dog & Whistle), this gave me a solid hit list for where to actually start showing up outside of just social. Appreciate the structure — already flagged 12 sites I hadn’t even heard of.
Following your work and grateful for this post!
—Eric
Founder, Dog & Whistle
Nice one Natia. There are even directory services for submitting your products that I have tried, and I feel they can also be really helpful to get started! If it feels overwhelming to submit your product to so many places initially.