Featured PlaybookLaunching• 3 min read
How to Launch a SaaS With No Audience (2026)
A practical playbook for solo founders and independent developers who don't have a big following.
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Founder Guides
Founder Playbooks for Indie Builders.
Practical guides on launching, search traffic and finding early customers without an existing audience, written by Pritam Ghosh, the founder of Hauntboard.
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Free to readLaunching• 3 min read
14 Product Hunt Alternatives for Indie Makers (2026)
Launch boards, directories and communities to use instead of, or as well as, a one-day Product Hunt launch.
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Launching• 2 min read
22 Places to Launch Your Startup in 2026
Launch boards, startup directories, founder communities and AI directories for sharing a new product, grouped by type.
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SEO & Traffic• 2 min read
Dofollow vs Nofollow Backlinks: What Every Founder Needs to Know
A plain explanation of link attributes, how Google treats them today, and how to earn links that help a new domain.
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Growth & Users• 2 min read
How to Get Your First 100 SaaS Users Without Paid Ads
Practical, unscalable tactics for finding your first users and customers from a cold start.
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SEO & Traffic• 2 min read
How to Get Traffic to a Brand-New Website (and the Truth About the Google Sandbox)
Why new domains are slow to rank, what Google actually says about the "sandbox", and where your first visitors should come from in the meantime.
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Growth & Users• 2 min read
Cold Email for Solo Founders: How to Land Your First 10 B2B Customers
A plain outreach framework that doesn't feel pushy, protects your domain and doesn't need expensive lead lists.
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Strategy• 2 min read
Micro-SaaS Pricing Playbook: Free Trials, Lifetime Deals and Tiers
How to choose a pricing model for a small SaaS: trials vs freemium, value metrics, annual plans and when lifetime deals make sense.
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SEO & Traffic• 2 min read
The Next.js Technical SEO Launch Checklist (2026)
What to check before launch day: metadata, canonical tags, Open Graph cards, sitemaps, structured data and Core Web Vitals.
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