Product Hunt became unfriendly to indie hackers. They are featuring only 30 launches per day, and if you don't get pick, you have no chance to rank. I wrote a full article on the topic: https://www.tetriz.io/blog/is-product-hunt-dying/
As Product Hunt is unreliable, I started exploring emerging alternatives like Peerlist:
Peerlist gives a fair chance to all products with ranking randomisation for the first day
Launching on Peerlist is less of a rush than Product Hunt, as there is a whole week to collect support
You actually get feedback on Peerlist and not only comments like "Congratulations on the launch"
- Peerlist gives a fair chance to all products with ranking randomisation for the first day
I'm currently running one launch there for micro-tool: https://peerlist.io/fabianmume/project/peerlist-launch-upvoters-extractor