When comparing AlternativeTo vs BetaPage, the Slant community recommends AlternativeTo for most people. In the question“What are the best Alternatives to Producthunt?” AlternativeTo is ranked 1st while BetaPage is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose AlternativeTo is:
Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free.
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Pros
Pro Comprehensive
Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free.
Pro Easy to skim through content
AlternativeTo makes it easy to quickly find stuff. The lists are organized by likes which floats the best content to the top, and helpful tags warn you of undesirable attributes (such as the product being discontinued or if it includes bundleware).
Pro Filtering and sorting capabilities
The ability to filter by platform and license means that you can easily filter out software that you can't use. More specific filters and sort orders are also available.
Pro Better usability
Slant is really terrible by design.
Pro Has a lot of information about products easily accessible
Pro Shows all options
If you have a large list(~100) on slant only the first ~15 entries are displayed - even if you click see full list.
Pro Less JavaScript
Which drastically improves the sites performance.
Pro Less manipulation
Less manipulation with guest/fake accounts.
Pro Does not use redirectingat
It does not use redirectingat so links won't break if you use an ad or tracker blocker .
Pro Straightforward
Pages load much faster and there is less annoying bling bling.
Pro Moderation is superior
It has a good moderation team that removes spam or hate posts.
Pro Tag based instead of individual Questions
It is tag based so there are less duplicates.
Pro Decent initial traction from early adopters
Most of the visitors are early adopters and there seems to be enough people there to get some initial feedback.
Pro Free
Its free and anyone can submit their startup.
Pro Products can be submited in all stages
Products under development, in beta or already launched can be submitted to BetaPage.
Cons
Con Limited details available on the site itself
AlternativeTo excels at showing you options, however it doesn't really tell you why one option is better/worse than another. It lists options by the number of likes it has received, but to directly compare the options is relatively hard to do.
Con It takes more than a month for free submitions to get published
You will probably need to wait for a month or more if you choose the free option.
Con Doesn't currently have the community or traffic of ProductHunt
BetaPage appears to be pretty early on and won't currently drive the sort of traffic that Product Hunt does or have the same sense of community. It's currently ranked 144,269 on Alexa which indicates that it won't bring you much traffic to your product.
