Tiny Startups: $2.8K in 30 days, paid launch promotion

Tiny Startups sells startup launch promotion and directory listings to indie makers. Its $2.8K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Tiny Startups is a pay-what-you-want startup launch platform, startup directory, and Product Hunt alternative built for indie makers launching and promoting startups.

Every startup receives a permanent listing page with a DR 71 backlink. Listings are hand-picked by a human and updated daily.

How it charges

Launching is free. Skip the queue costs $29 and puts a launch in the next Monday batch. Optional upgrades include a do-follow backlink, partner backlinks, a newsletter feature to 20k+ founders, and an SEO review.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2025-10	$3,957
2025-11	$1,242
2025-12	$1,902
2026-01	$1,714
2026-02	$701
2026-03	$879
2026-04	$675
2026-05	$1,308
2026-06	$2,360
2026-07	$2,919
2026-08	$3,986
2026-09	$2,785

Where customers come from

The site reports 129,675 visitors, 14k+ visits/month, and 25k+ newsletter subscribers. Launches appear in front of 20,000+ early adopters.

The founder lists X / Twitter and Newsletter as growth channels. The site also publishes a startup launch guide, compares startup launch platforms and directories, and supports free weekly launches.

What stands out

Launches compete on weekly leaderboards from Monday through Sunday. Rank is based only on upvotes; clicks and reviews never move a listing.

The top two products each week receive a permanent Product of the Week badge. Every startup also keeps a lifetime listing page.

From the official site

Tiny Startups is a startup launch platform, startup directory, and Product Hunt alternative built for indie makers.

Rank is upvotes, nothing else: clicks and reviews never move a listing.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Tiny Startups's $2.8K in the last 30 days is higher than 85% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Marketing” category (897 projects) it is higher than 81% (category median $198). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

In my view, the buyer is an indie maker preparing a startup launch and looking for visibility among other makers. Demand depends on whether that audience regularly visits launch pages, reads launch newsletters, and participates in weekly rankings.

Distribution would need a direct audience through social channels, newsletters, guides, and directory traffic. Daily curation, ranking participation, launch-week support, and moderation require real work. The broader challenge is competing for established attention in the startup-launch market.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The clearest lesson is to pair a free listing with paid distribution options. Tiny Startups also makes ranking rules explicit, keeps lifetime listings, and gives weekly leaders a permanent badge.

Sources

Tiny Startups official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Tiny Startups about page, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure