Growth notes

These guides cover how a solo or bootstrapped maker gets a product in front of the people who might use it. They deal with launch venues, launch sequencing, directories, communities and the follow-up work that decides whether a launch day turns into customers. None of them assume a mailing list, a following or an advertising budget.

Every guide follows the same rules. Claims about a platform come from that platform's own published pages, and each citation carries the date it was last checked, because prices, queues and eligibility rules change without notice. Where a public page did not state a price or a rule, the guide says so rather than guessing. First-person launch accounts are labelled as self-reported and are never treated as a success-rate study.

We do not quote traffic figures, conversion rates or ranking promises for any venue, including ZeroRaised itself. A launch board can tell you how submission works. It cannot tell you how many relevant users you will reach, and a guide that pretends otherwise is selling something.

Start with the decision guides if you are choosing where to launch, use the checklists if you already know, and read the funding and community guides when you want to understand the rules before you post. Each article ends with sourced answers to the questions makers ask most often, and the sources are listed so you can check them yourself.