Nick Launches https://nicklaunches.com/In this episode, Markus J. Diplama spotlights Nick Launches, a launch platform and discovery hub built by a former startup CTO for indie makers and AI builders. The episode explores how weekly launch cycles, community voting and a permanent backlink help new products get found, and why the site's library of 192 personally reviewed launch directories, growth guides and SEO playbooks makes it a genuine resource rather than just a listing. It is an encouraging listen for any founder who has ever launched into silence. Visit Nick Launches and see what builders are shipping this week.Have you ever built something you were genuinely proud of, pressed the publish button, and then heard absolutely nothing? No signups, no comments, no traffic. Just silence. If you have, you are in very good company, because that silence is one of the most common experiences in the entire world of building products. And today we are talking about a place that was designed to break it.Welcome to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and on this show we go looking for the businesses, the builders and the ideas that are shaping what comes next. We celebrate the people who are doing the work, and we try to learn something useful from each of them along the way. Today's spotlight is on a platform that sits right at the heart of the indie and AI product world. It is called Nick Launches.Let me start with a simple truth about building software today. It has never been easier to make something. With modern frameworks, AI coding assistants and no code tools, a single person can go from an idea on a Monday morning to a working product by the weekend. That is extraordinary. But it has created a new problem. When everybody can build, the hard part is no longer building. The hard part is being found. There are thousands of new tools arriving every month, and most of them disappear before anyone even knows they exist.Nick Launches exists to solve exactly that. At its core, it is a launch platform and discovery hub for indie makers and AI builders. Its message is short and to the point: do not just build, get discovered. The idea is that a founder can bring a new product to a place where other builders, creators and curious early adopters are actively looking for what is new, and give that product a real chance to be seen.The story behind it is one that a lot of listeners will recognise. The person behind Nick Launches is a former startup CTO who spent years in the corporate grind and eventually decided to leave that lifestyle behind to commit fully to building products and writing about the journey. He has shipped his own tools, including Prompt Builder and InstaPosts, and he writes about web apps, mobile apps, SEO and AI from direct experience. That matters, because Nick Launches is not a platform designed by someone guessing at what makers need. It is designed by someone who has sat in that silence after launch day and knows exactly how it feels.So how does it actually work? The process is refreshingly simple. A builder signs in and submits their product, and the site says it takes under two minutes to add a tool to the directory. From there, the product can be featured on the homepage and included in the weekly digest, which goes out to the community. And then the product has the chance to grow its reach, earning upvotes, traffic and backlinks from real builders who are browsing the site.One of the most interesting things about Nick Launches is its rhythm. Instead of one frantic, crowded launch day, it runs in weekly cycles. Each week has its own board of launches, and visitors can browse what came out that week and help pick a winner. When I looked at the site, week thirty nine of twenty twenty six was underway with more than one hundred launches on the board, and the leaderboard was a wonderful snapshot of what builders