Guides

Chanlyst finds places, so these are about places: which ones exist for a given kind of product, what each one asks for before it accepts you, and which are worth the afternoon. No list assembled from other lists.

• Where to promote your SaaS

  Every place you can promote a SaaS is one of three kinds: somewhere you submit for free, somewhere you buy a placement, or someone you write to directly. Here is how to tell which your product qualifies for, and the order that wastes the least time.

• SaaS directory submission

  Lists of SaaS directories are everywhere. What none of them tell you is what each one requires before it will accept a submission — the assets, the account, and the rules that decide whether your listing goes live or quietly disappears.

• Sites like Product Hunt

  Product Hunt is one launch, not the launch. Here are the platforms that still send real traffic, what each one is for, and the order to use them in so one product can launch several times without repeating itself.

• How to promote an AI tool

  AI tool directories were the easiest distribution on the internet for about eighteen months, and then everyone arrived. What still works for an AI product, and what is now just a form you fill in for nothing.

• How to promote a Chrome extension

  Publishing an extension to the Chrome Web Store is documented everywhere. Getting anyone to install it is not. What actually drives installs: store search, the places extensions get discovered, and the review threshold nobody mentions.

• Where to find early adopters

  Early adopters are not a demographic you can buy a list of. They are people already doing your job by hand, and they gather in specific, findable places. Here is how to locate those places and what to do once you are in one.