Karan from Boringlaunch

Building Boringlaunch to help busy founders boost SEO and sales for their new products

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

It took us 4 months to add "Guaranteed Results in 30 days" on our website.

In Nov 2023, we started collecting AI directories to launch Boringlaunch (a directory submission service). We managed to collect 100+ platforms within a month.

But we were not sure how much DR and traffic users would get from these submissions.

So we quickly build a landing page of Boringlaunch with @softr_io, set up a payment system with @gumroad, and a details form with @TallyForms and we try to keep our offering super simple:

1. We will submit your product on 60+ platforms in 7 days at a 70% discount.
2. We don’t guarantee any results.
3. We will share a detailed report outlining each platform where your product has been submitted, not live.

We reached out to our previous productized service users and a few potential customers over DM, as we thought they might not trust our service but they would trust us.

And wohoooo, they loved it 🙏

Within 72 hours, we got our first sale, and our early slots were sold out within a week.

We were over the moon, Boringlaunch, got validated 🥳

But after a few laughs, we thought we now have to increase the price. Otherwise, it would not be ethical with the early adopters who trusted us, but we didn’t know how good the results would be for our users.

So we simply removed the discount and stopped reaching out to people so that we could focus on submissions for our early users.

Once we submitted for a couple of users, we discovered 4 things:
1. A couple of platforms are not working or not that good.
2.Few platforms have moved to paid listings from free listings.
3. Some directories will take months to get approved.
4. Some products are already listed on directories.

We somehow managed to submit most of the products of our early users on 60+ platforms, but for a couple of products, we barely touched the 50 platforms. So we reached out to them and apologized, stating that we would submit their product on 20+ additional platforms within a week, but currently, we were only able to do 50.

And guess what, they were okay with that.

So we started collecting new platforms ASAP, and within a week, we collected 50+ platforms and did the submissions for our early users.

Then we shared a detailed report with them and asked for a testimonial.

After that we updated our offering to a submission service on 75+ platforms and added few testimonials on the website, and we got 2 sales within 24 hours.

And that was the day we decided we would never stop collecting good platforms, no matter what. As we don't want to repeat the same mistake again.

Till today, we have collected 400+ platforms and directories, but we still offer a 100+ platform service both for AI and non-AI SaaS products as we keep updating our list every week and submit products based on the relevance of the customer’s industry and niche.

If you are still reading, thanks for your time🙏

And If you or your friend need to boost your SEO and sales, please check out Boringlaunch and see the love our users have shared about us👇🏽

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@jasondoesstuff @marclou u build so fasssst

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

is there any free alternative to mailbrew?

my use case is to get the popular posts from couple of subreddit i follow

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

89 DR dofollow backlink from cursor👇

[eric zakariasson @ericzakariasson]

introducing cursor profiles!

go claim your handle at https://t.co/6t5lg2jqvg

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@dudufolio These are beautiful 🤩

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@om_patel5 love it, its https://t.co/g8jlRfBxaR if u looking for it

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@phuctm97 its time to get a new domain

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@barret_jessy love it

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@shikhars_ using @VoibeAI its been pretty good imo

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

This guy is different.

He replaced his own projects with the residency link.

be like @DmytroKrasun 🙌

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@honeydreamss @Shpigford Or build a one for your products

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@the2ndfloorguy I traveled last week and I wasn't on the window side and I was jealous as I couldn't see the sunrise in the early morning flight (how did u build it), i would like to build the opposite idea for my partner if u are ok to share, check which side of the flight will have a sunrise

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@vascoabm What do u do if u got that no. of subs at the start of the day (from the last day efforts)

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@dudufolio @shotbaseapp Love the idea (and the design is lit like always)

Currently what are you using for organizing?

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@DmytroKrasun did my part

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

short answer is yes specially for new products

there are 3 types of platforms which can help:
- Launch platforms like PH or Indie Hackers (they give no follow link but a nofollow link from a good DR 90+ domain still gets crawled, still gets parsed, still feeds into entity association and brand signals)
- Profile platforms like Crunchbase (mostly no follow but same logic as above as they all have high DR and credibility)
- Niche SaaS directories like SaaS Hub, Alternative To, etc. (do follow link in good ones)

Note: Avoid submitting to every random directory specially the new ones with high DR as a lot of them have sketchy backlinks. You can check backlinks profiles of these platforms in any seo tool u are using (in semrush, its free to check upto 10 request per day)

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@danielkempe let boringlaunch do it for you if u are interested
https://t.co/7F6WXY1dcA

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@tomboutin_ @ProductHunt such a cool app, does it fly across a dual monitor setup?

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@ProductHunt write like a genz and make some mistakes

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@pkuhar Botbar

[Karan from Boringlaunch @gamifyKaran]

@robj3d3 why haven't they did this in the first place?