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24 alternatives to HowMuchUsers

The public scoreboard for startups' user counts

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    100 ideas for your startup's first 100 users

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    Interactive guide to go from ideation to first 1000 users

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    A Notion dashboard that helps you get early traction

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    How billion & million dollar companies got their first users

    2019 · earlyusergrowth.com · its alternatives →

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    Find out how successful startups got their 1st users

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    GitRanks▲127

    Hi HN, I built GitRanks because I’ve always wanted a clear, fun way to see how my open-source work compares - both globally and right here at home. The app pulls in GitHub data to give every developer an at-a-glance “scorecard”, then rolls those into live leaderboards so you can: - Track rankings by stars, contributions and followers - Filter worldwide vs. your own country - Refresh daily - no waiting weeks to see your progress - Discover rising devs you’ve never heard of and follow their work Tech Stack: - Back: MongoDB | NestJS | BullMQ | GraphQL - Front: Next.js | Tailwind | Shadcn Data:…

    2025 · gitranks.com · its alternatives →

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    Since January, we've accomplished quite a bit. We've successfully launched two productivity tools that people seem to love. The vast majority of ratings are 5/5. Our userbase is growing steadily by about 2,000 people a day. And we haven't done any marketing yet. I wanted to write abou

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    See the biggest startup yappers on X/Twitter

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    An easy way to see who uses your app the most

    2015 · launchkit.io · its alternatives →

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    Get Feedback, First Users & Testimonials in Under 24h

    2025 · indiecru.sh · its alternatives →

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    A daily leaderboard for maker launches. Submit your product, quote-tweet the launch post, and climb by real likes on X, not upvotes. Resets every day.

    Feb 2026 · makers.page · its alternatives →

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    Track the user growth of Facebook

    2023 · quiverquant.com · its alternatives →

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    Rupt▲183

    First API to detect and monetize password sharing

    2023 · rupt.dev · its alternatives →

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    GrowthBot▲214

    Grow your startup from $0-$10,000 MRR

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Discover the next unicorn

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    Solve the Twitter mystery and supercharge your growth

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    We run an open startup and believe in sharing numbers publicly. But our setup was a mess: metrics lived in Stripe and PostHog, we'd pull them manually, paste into our CMS, and embed that on the site. Every update was a chore. Every number was stale. Openboard connects directly to your data sources and generates a live public metrics page. No CMS middleman, no manual updates. Currently supports Stripe (MRR, churn, active subscribers) and PostHog (visitors, signups, retention). Adding more integrations based on what people actually need. The base version is free — sharing should be…

    Apr 2026 · openboard.fyi · its alternatives →

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    Launched to crickets? Here's your playbook to 1,000 users.

    May 2026 · its alternatives →

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    How Truebill got 10K signups w/out acquisition costs

    2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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    How Scott Burns acquired over 100 Million Users

    2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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