How LetsLaunch works

1. You submit, you're live

Submit your product and it goes live immediately — no review queue, no waiting on an editor. Your listing includes a real, indexable link to your site from the moment it's published.

2. Earn 5 upvotes in 24 hours, or the listing goes

Every listing gets exactly 24 hours from its launch time to reach 5 upvotes from real people. Clear the bar and the listing — and its link — is permanent. Miss it and the listing is soft-removed: hidden from browse pages, marked noindex, and its outbound link switches to nofollow. Nothing is deleted — the page stays reachable, it's just honest about having missed the bar.

We email makers a heads-up at the 12-hour mark if they're short, so there's time to rally real support before the window closes.

We're early: while LetsLaunch is still building up daily launch volume, this rule is disabled and no listing is removed for missing the threshold. We'll switch it on once the board sustains meaningful daily traffic — and we'll announce it here first.

3. Votes are weighted against gaming

Upvotes from accounts created less than 15 minutes before they vote still show on the page, but they don't count toward the survival threshold. That keeps a burst of throwaway signups from rescuing a listing that real users haven't backed.

4. What paid placement buys — and what it doesn't

You can pay for a featured homepage slot ($29 for a week) or a sponsored blog post ($79, or $199 for three). That buys visibility: a placement above the fold, or a write-up on the blog.

It never buys a dofollow link. Sponsored posts are marked rel="sponsored" per search engine guidelines, and a featured slot has no effect on whether a listing survives its 24-hour window — that's still decided entirely by upvotes from real people. Paying gets you seen. Staying listed is earned the same way for every maker.