How LetsLaunch works

1. You submit, and join this week or book one

Each week takes at most 20 free launches. While this week has free spots, your launch joins it straight away; once it's full, you book one of the next 5 weeks with room, which opens Monday at 08:00 UTC. No waiting on an editor — and when the week is full, a Premium launch skips the queue: it goes out on any day you pick, today included, without using a free spot. Your listing includes a real, indexable link to your site from the moment it's published.

2. Earn 5 upvotes in 7 days, or the listing goes

Every listing gets its whole launch week — exactly 7 days 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 2 days before the window closes 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 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 7-day 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.