Growth and marketing for early products

How founders find their first users, market a product on no budget, and keep growth going after launch day.

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12 Best Newsletters to Launch Your Startup In (2026)
Growth & Marketing

12 Best Newsletters to Launch Your Startup In (2026)

A newsletter feature puts your product in front of people who signed up to hear about new products. The twelve worth submitting to, what each one costs, and how to get in.

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10 Best Places to Launch a Chrome Extension in 2026
Growth & Marketing

10 Best Places to Launch a Chrome Extension in 2026

For an extension, the store is not where people arrive after hearing about you. It is where they find you in the first place. The ten places worth launching on, and why your store listing matters more than all of them.

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12 Best SaaS Review Sites to Get Listed On in 2026
Growth & Marketing

12 Best SaaS Review Sites to Get Listed On in 2026

A review listing does two jobs: it ranks for your product name while your own site cannot, and it shows a stranger that other people use the thing. The twelve platforms worth your time, ordered by where to start rather than by company size.

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How to Write a Startup Landing Page That Converts (When AI Wrote Everyone Else's)
Growth & Marketing

How to Write a Startup Landing Page That Converts (When AI Wrote Everyone Else's)

Your landing page is probably not bad. It is probably indistinguishable, which is worse. Why every startup page suddenly sounds the same, and how to write one that could only be about your product.

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How to Get Your Startup Recommended by ChatGPT (We Ran the Test on Ourselves)
Growth & Marketing

How to Get Your Startup Recommended by ChatGPT (We Ran the Test on Ourselves)

We asked ChatGPT five questions our own customers ask, then logged every source it read. Three months after shipping our AI visibility work, StartupBase was in the source list on every relevant query and named in the answer on none of them. Here is what that gap teaches you.

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How to Market a Startup in 2026 (A Founder's Playbook, Not a Trends List)
Growth & Marketing

How to Market a Startup in 2026 (A Founder's Playbook, Not a Trends List)

Marketing a startup is not one job, it is four, and they happen in order. A stage by stage playbook for the founder who is also the entire marketing department, with the deep dives linked at each step.

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How to Get Traffic to Your Startup Website in 2026 (In the Right Order)
Growth & Marketing

How to Get Traffic to Your Startup Website in 2026 (In the Right Order)

Most traffic advice is written for websites that already have authority. Here is what actually works on a site nobody has heard of yet, sequenced by how old your site is.

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Best Communities for Founders in 2026 (And What You Can Actually Post in Each)
Growth & Marketing

Best Communities for Founders in 2026 (And What You Can Actually Post in Each)

The sixteen communities worth a founder's time in 2026, with the one thing every other list leaves out: what each room actually lets you post about your own product.

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Best Launch Platforms with Dofollow Backlinks in 2026 (With Real DR Data)
Growth & Marketing

Best Launch Platforms with Dofollow Backlinks in 2026 (With Real DR Data)

Which launch platforms actually give you a dofollow backlink, with verified Domain Rating for every platform and a thirty second method to check any link yourself before you waste time submitting.

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Pre Launch Marketing: How to Build an Audience Before You Launch (2026)
Growth & Marketing

Pre Launch Marketing: How to Build an Audience Before You Launch (2026)

How to do pre launch marketing without building a waitlist that never converts. What the pre launch phase is actually for, what to measure instead of signups, and a realistic timeline for indie founders.

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How to Market a Startup With No Money (What Actually Works for Indie Founders)
Growth & Marketing

How to Market a Startup With No Money (What Actually Works for Indie Founders)

How to market a startup with no money, written for indie and bootstrapped founders. Which free channels compound, which only work once, and a realistic plan for five hours a week.

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Do Startup Directories Help SEO in 2026?
Growth & Marketing

Do Startup Directories Help SEO in 2026?

Do startup directories actually help your SEO in 2026? A clear breakdown of dofollow vs nofollow links, why bulk submissions fail, and how to get real ranking value from the directories you submit to.

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How to Get Your First 100 Users After Launching Your Startup
Growth & Marketing

How to Get Your First 100 Users After Launching Your Startup

Learn how to get your first 100 users after launch using founder led outreach, startup communities, product directories, content, feedback loops, and launch platforms.

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