Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to The Top - EP 551: Sortd, 200,000 users, $500k invested so far, launched 2014. Raising $1m Sortd.
200,000 users, $500k invested
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Top - EP 551: Sortd, 200,000 users, $500k invested so far, launched 2014. Raising $1m Sortd. launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Growth Everywhere – A Simple Pre-launch Strategy That Got Creative Market 70,000 Users In 9 Months▲84How Creative Market got 70,000 users in 9 months and more
2016 · its alternatives →
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Interactive guide to go from ideation to first 1000 users
2021 · its alternatives →
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A company that’s done $40 million worth of business
2016 · its alternatives →
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Growth Everywhere - Derek Halpern Drops Knowledge On How He Built A 300,000 Subscriber E-mail List▲68From nothing to 70,000 subscribers in just 16 months
2016 · its alternatives →
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How Oliver Emberton acheived 4.93 Million views
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hurdlr’s simple but genius approach
2016 · its alternatives →
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Reach over 7,000 successful tech founders and makers.
2018 · its alternatives →
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Growing revenue 1,300% in a year
2016 · its alternatives →
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Get your startup featured in front of top investors
2023 · its alternatives →
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37,000+ Backers = Over $1 Million raised
2016 · its alternatives →
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Interview with Found of Crush Empire, Bryce Welker
2016 · its alternatives →
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Report featuring 141 companies and $1.6 Billion of funding
2020 · its alternatives →
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I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…
Jul 2026 · jonno.nz · its alternatives →
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I have been running my side project for about over a year now and it has finally logged 1 million votes! The site gets on average, for the past 3 months, 600 users a day with an average bounce rate of 47%. Majority of the traffic comes through StumbleUpon. I posted about the site a while back here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338487 Site: http://faveone.com
2011 · its alternatives →
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As a founder without an audience, building great products is no longer enough. It is difficult to find first paying users, grow, and discover where and how to reach them. You have to find the right people through the noise. As a founder who likes to break the rules, I discovered a method. I unlocked reaching 10.000+ real potential customers as low cost as $50 with 90% successful targeting. Solution: Twitter custom audience lists. This is the Holy Grail. you can turn it into a lead generating machine by using custom audience list. Twitter lets you use lists to target. But there is more…
2022 · its alternatives →
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100+ pages on how to reach millions of people on LinkedIn
2019 · its alternatives →
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From 2,000 to 5,000 daily visitors
2016 · its alternatives →
- 24IB
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