How makers get their first users: launch sites, communities, build logs and being found by search engines and AI.
Product Hunt, Hacker News, Reddit, BetaList, Uneed, Peerlist and more, compared with their real rules and prices as of October 2026. Which one fits your product, what each costs, and how to combine them into one launch plan.
AI made building an app fast and cheap, so everyone is launching. Now the hard part is getting found. Here are the real numbers behind the change, and the simple five-step method I use to get the first users for a product built with AI.
People now ask AI tools which product to use. If they can't read your site, you're not in the answer. A practical guide to generative engine optimization (GEO) for makers, with the exact crawler names, a 2-minute test, and what we set up on Axiean.
