Is submitting my startup free?

Yes, and it stays free. There is no listing fee and no paid queue to skip. Paid upgrades exist for placement and for skipping badge maintenance; neither is required to submit, to be published, or to get a followed link.

How long until my startup is live?

Usually under an hour, and as little as a few minutes if you install the badge immediately and trigger the manual re-check yourself. There is no human review step to wait on.

Nothing at submission time — there is no editor. In practice, submissions with no working product, a broken site, or a description too thin to tell what the thing does will fail to find votes and end up hidden by the survival rule instead.

Do I need an account?

Yes, to submit and to vote. It is also what makes votes countable: an account created minutes before it votes still shows on the page but does not count toward the survival threshold.

My startup is already listed and I did not submit it.

Some listings are imported from public launch sources and marked unclaimed — no owner, no votes, nofollow link. Submitting the product normally hands you that exact page, keeping its URL and slug. Or file a removal request and a person will review it.

Can I edit my listing after it is live?

Yes, from the dashboard, at any time. Editing does not restart the survival window or affect the badge check.

Submit your startup

Submit your startup — one form, no gatekeeper

Submitting a startup somewhere usually means filling in a long form and then waiting to find out whether a stranger liked it. Here there is no stranger. The submission is checked by a script that looks for a reciprocal badge on your own site, and when it finds one the listing publishes itself.

That is the whole gate. What happens next is decided by people voting, not by anyone approving.

Free submission, permanently — no listing fee and no paid queue
Live the same day, usually within the hour
A dated launch page that stays in the weekly archive forever
One free relaunch if the first attempt misses the bar

What a launch here gets you

Concretely, and with the limits stated.

A form that fills itself in
Paste your URL and the submission form reads your site for the name, tagline, description, categories and screenshots. Correct what it got wrong rather than writing ten fields from nothing.
A launch date on the record
Your listing joins a specific week's board, and that week is archived at its own permanent URL. The vote count next to your name is the one you earned that week.
A maker profile that compounds
Every launch links to your maker page, so a second product starts with an audience and a history instead of from zero.
An exit that involves a human
If you ever want the listing gone, the request goes to a person with your written reason attached. Nothing is deleted by a script, and an approved removal blocks the domain from future imports.

What happens after you hit submit

1
Paste your URL
The form reads your site and prefills the name, tagline, description, categories and screenshots. You edit what it got wrong instead of typing ten fields from scratch.
2
Install the badge
Copy the embed from your listing's badge page and put it anywhere on your own site. Any real crawlable link back to your listing URL counts — it just must not be marked nofollow, ugc or sponsored.
3
The check publishes you
The first automatic check runs about an hour after you submit, and you can trigger a manual re-check yourself the moment the badge is live. When it passes, the listing publishes with a dofollow link and its launch clock starts from that moment — not from when you filled the form.
4
Collect 5 upvotes
You get 24 hours on the board to clear the bar. Clear it and the listing and its followed link are permanent; miss it and the listing is hidden from browse with one free relaunch available. We email a warning if you are short with time left.

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.

What it costs

Three tiers, all published. The free one is the standard path, not a trial.

Free Launch
Free
Everything you need to launch in public, forever free.
Premium
$19
Skip the badge upkeep and stand out on the board.
Premium+
$39
For teams who want a real content asset out of launch day.

Full breakdown, including ad placements, on the pricing page. No tier buys a followed link, a position on the board, or survival past the window.

What a submission actually gets you

Four things, all of which outlast the week you launched in.

An indexable page
A real URL with structured data, a Markdown mirror, and a followed outbound link to your site while the badge is up.
Internal links from pages that rank
Category boards, the weekly archive, comparison pages and alternatives pages all link to your listing without you doing anything else.
A public vote count
Social proof with a date attached, which is more useful than a testimonial because a visitor can see when it happened.
Traffic you can measure
Views, votes and outbound clicks in the dashboard, live, so you can tell whether the launch sent anyone anywhere.

On the board right now

This week's launches, ranked by upvotes — the board yours would join.

1
Notiq
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Turn any YouTube video into structured study notes.
EducationDR 2
2
LazySEO
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AI SEO on autopilot — 30 articles per month, fully automated.
AIMarketingSEODR 19
3
LinkPilot
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AI writes LinkedIn posts and comments in your voice.
AIMarketingSocial MediaDR 24
4
Replyburst
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Promote your product on X, on autopilot.
AIMarketingSocial MediaDR 0
5
PaperTrack
10h left
Know exactly who reads your pitch decks and proposals.
ProductivitySecurityData

See the full board →

Startup submission sites, and which ones are worth the hour

There are a few hundred sites that will take a startup submission, and the honest split is roughly: a handful with real audiences, a larger group that gives you a page worth having, and a long tail that exists to sell you the listing. Telling them apart takes about two minutes per site, and almost nobody does it.

The two-minute test: open an existing listing on the site, view source, and read the rel attribute on their outbound link. If it says nofollow, the link is worth nothing to you and the page is only worth the traffic. Then check whether that listing page is in Google at all. We ran exactly this check across the landscape and published the results, failures included, because the alternative is another unverified list of a hundred directories.

Where LetsLaunch sits: free, immediate, followed link earned via badge, and a bar for staying listed — 5 upvotes in 24 hours. That last part is the one founders push back on, and it is the one that makes the rest defensible. A submission site with no bar accumulates dead listings until nothing in it carries weight.

If your startup has no product anyone can use yet, submit somewhere built for pre-launch instead. A waitlist page will not find votes here, and we would rather say that now than take the submission and hide it in twenty-four hours.

Frequently asked questions

Is submitting my startup free?: Yes, and it stays free. There is no listing fee and no paid queue to skip. Paid upgrades exist for placement and for skipping badge maintenance; neither is required to submit, to be published, or to get a followed link.
How long until my startup is live?: Usually under an hour, and as little as a few minutes if you install the badge immediately and trigger the manual re-check yourself. There is no human review step to wait on.
What do you reject?: Nothing at submission time — there is no editor. In practice, submissions with no working product, a broken site, or a description too thin to tell what the thing does will fail to find votes and end up hidden by the survival rule instead.
Do I need an account?: Yes, to submit and to vote. It is also what makes votes countable: an account created minutes before it votes still shows on the page but does not count toward the survival threshold.
My startup is already listed and I did not submit it.: Some listings are imported from public launch sources and marked unclaimed — no owner, no votes, nofollow link. Submitting the product normally hands you that exact page, keeping its URL and slug. Or file a removal request and a person will review it.
Can I edit my listing after it is live?: Yes, from the dashboard, at any time. Editing does not restart the survival window or affect the badge check.