Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Take The Bait
A blog about building your MVP & finding your first customer
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Take The Bait launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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1000+ Places To Promote Your Startup
2022 · agarwaravi.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Overlead▲146Here's the problem: I launched two products. I wrote blog posts. I posted on X, built in public. I tried running ads. And you know what actually got me customers? Replying to someone on Reddit who asked, "What's the best tool for this?" One reply. Three signups. I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner. But here's the issue: I don't have time to refresh Reddit all day looking for these posts. I have products to build. Bugs to fix. Emails to answer. Life to live. So I built Overlead to do the searching for me. Overlead scans Reddit, Quora, and Hacker News (and many more to come) for…
Feb 2026 · overlead.co · its alternatives →
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There are many resources on MVP but why an MVP is explained
2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Just Launch It▲249Launch your startup now, before you miss the boat
2024 · justlaunch.it · its alternatives →
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Actionable advice for B2B Startups by Steli from Close.io
2018 · close.com · its alternatives →
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Founder of Stack Overflow on building communities
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Life, learning, and startups.
2016 · drift.com · its alternatives →
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FoundersWall▲35I used to be just a blogger. Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste. I was building in public on X for last 2 months. And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake. I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction. I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it. One thing I kept seeing everywhere, product launch directories. I thought here is the scope. So I started building one. Same UI like the rest. Nothing special. Suddenly one day when it was half built, I realized…
2025 · founderswall.com · its alternatives →
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Roast (+fix) your startup idea in 3mins before wasting 3mths
2025 · dontbuildthis.com · its alternatives →
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After a sprint towards MVP, we are about to launch what I hope is our most successful project yet. This is what motivated me. http://blog.thevideosdb.com/how-thevideosdb-came-to-be/ What motivates you?
2012 · blog.thevideosdb.com · its alternatives →
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hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
2022 · joinmaasive.com · its alternatives →
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NO. I won't work for equity or exposure. Pay me instead.
2019 · its alternatives →
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