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Startup directory
Most startup directories are a snapshot with no timestamp: a name, a tagline, and no way to tell whether anyone has looked at it since 2021. This one is assembled out of launches. Every listing has a launch date, a weekly board it competed on, and a vote count that came from signed-in accounts.
That makes it browsable two ways — by what a startup does, or by when it launched.
The highest-voted listings across the whole catalogue.
A curated directory for indie makers and SaaS founders.
The most recent launches, newest first.
Curated product launches for AI, SaaS, and tech startups.
Independent film distributor specializing in horror and sci-fi.
Every category in the catalogue, with the number of listings you can actually see.
What a listing here gives you, and what it deliberately does not.
A launch date, not a submission date
Your listing lands on a specific week's board and stays in that week's archive permanently. Search engines get a page with a date on it; visitors get context for the vote count.
Votes that had to be earned
Upvotes from accounts created minutes before voting still display, but they do not count toward the survival threshold. A burst of throwaway signups cannot rescue a listing.
One founder profile across launches
Every launch links back to a maker page collecting that founder's products, so a second launch compounds with the first instead of starting from nothing.
A way out that involves a person
We publish imported pages nobody asked for, so removal has to be real: a signed-in request with a written reason, reviewed by a human, and the domain blocked from future imports.
The rule: a published listing has 24 hours from launch to collect 5 qualifying upvotes. Clear it and the listing and its followed link are permanent. Miss it and the listing is hidden from browse and its outbound link drops to nofollow — nothing is deleted, and you get one free relaunch. While LetsLaunch is still building up daily volume this rule is paused, so no listing is currently removed for missing the threshold.
Two different jobs get called "startup directory". One is a database — Crunchbase, Wellfound, a national startup registry — where the point is coverage and the entry is a record. The other is a discovery surface, where the point is that somebody new sees your product this week. They need completely different things from you, and submitting to one expecting the other is why founders conclude directories do not work.
This is the second kind. Coverage is not the goal; a dated launch with real engagement is. That is also why the survival rule exists: 5 upvotes in 24 hours or the listing leaves browse. A discovery site that keeps everything forever stops being a discovery site within a year.
The practical upside of the launch format is that it compounds. A listing sits on the current week's board, then in that week's permanent archive, then in its category boards, then in comparison and alternatives pages generated from the catalogue. One submission produces several internal paths to your page rather than one row that scrolls away.
The honest downside: a launch that nobody votes for gets hidden, and paying does not change that. If what you want is a permanent record that never asks anything of you, a database-style directory is the better fit and we would rather say so than take the submission.
The full mechanic is written up on how it works, and every price is on pricing.
One form, no editor, and a dated public launch page at the end of it.
