Startups Lab
The Community That Launches Real Startups
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Startups Lab is a weekly product launch platform built for indie hackers, SaaS founders, and solo builders. Every Monday, products launch in the weekly feed and get discovered by 2,000+ founders, early adopters, and builders who upvote, share, and engage with new launches.
Unlike platforms where your visibility disappears after 24 hours, Startups Lab gives every product a full week on the homepage. The top 3 most-upvoted products each week win a free DR 57 dofollow backlink and a Product of the Week badge — no subscription needed.
Paid plans include Featured ($26/mo) and Spotlight ($39/mo), both with a DR 57 dofollow backlink, newsletter mention to 1,500+ subscribers, and a tweet from @lab_startups. A Skip the Queue option ($14) lets you choose any Monday without waiting for a free slot.
Startups Lab also includes a free Launch Directory Tracker - a curated list of 20+ launch platforms with domain ratings, backlink types, and a personal submission tracker so founders can manage their entire launch strategy in one place.
Built by Hardik Gohil, a full-stack developer and indie hacker from India.
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FounderPlaybooks.
What other founders did to grow.
2722 dispatches from hundreds of founders, pulled from the week's best podcasts.
You need to solve a problem that you have, because when you're working nights and weekends you're hitting walls all the time. You need something to keep you going and solving your own problem is probably the best way to get past that block each time.
Solve your own problem — it's the only fuel that survives nights and weekends
Framed not as a product axiom but as a stamina argument: solo founders quit when motivation runs out, and a problem you personally feel is the only thing that reliably refills the tank at 11pm on a Tuesday. Pick ideas by 'would I keep coding this when nothing is working' rather than TAM.
I would back into that by thinking a little bit about retention… well what problem does it solve? The learning with Wrangle ultimately was it didn't solve a real problem… when we pivoted into the burner standalone app we were testing it by selling tickets on Craigslist and it quickly validated the problem.
Use Retention to Tell Product Problem from Distribution Problem
Greg's framework for deciding whether to pivot: if people keep coming back (retention), it's a distribution problem you can solve. If they don't, it's a product problem no amount of marketing can fix. Testing Burner via fake Craigslist ads generated immediate, authentic demand — proof the problem was real, not created.
There's a play for whatever you're stuck on.
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