Product Hunt and PeerPush helped me with game visibility and free traffic
Launching a game as a solo dev is not just challenging, but it's also overwhelming as you need to think about how to market your game, get visibility and generate traffic (preferably free traffic) as we're all poor solo devs, right? :D
I wanted to share a couple of things that helped me generate free traffic & visibility when I launched Mad Snake:
I signed up to Product Hunt, created a profile, then participated on their daily product of the day competition. I shared my link with family, friends and work colleagues and asked them to upvote Mad Snake. I ended up on position #18 and managed to drive some traffic to App Store to download and play my game :-)
I did the exact thing above on Peerpush, and I ranked #3 which I was surprised and super excited. This gave a pretty good boost in visibility and free traffic to my app. Tip: interact with other projects, comment and vote on others as this also helps with your own ranking.
The other not so obvious benefit is that your game website is now linked to two high domain authority websites which may help you with SEO and traffic in the long run.
Hope this can help you :-)