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TinyLaunch alternative
TinyLaunch runs a free daily competition where the top three finishers earn a badge and a backlink. If you finish fourth, you have spent your launch day on a board and come away with a page and not much else.
Here the link is not a prize for placing. Every published listing carries a dofollow outbound link, earned the same way by everyone: install the reciprocal badge on your own site.
TinyLaunch is a free daily launch competition. Products go live on the homepage for several days and compete on upvotes; the top three get a badge and a backlink. Standard launches are free but queued, and a paid Premium launch skips the queue. Their dofollow link is granted when you embed the TinyLaunch badge on your landing page.
So the badge requirement is common ground — both platforms ask for a reciprocal link. The difference is whether the followed link is also conditional on finishing in the top three.
Mechanics, side by side. Everything in the TinyLaunch column comes from their own pricing and submission pages; where we could not confirm something, the cell says so.
| LetsLaunch | TinyLaunch | |
|---|---|---|
| Who gets a followed link | Every published listing, while the badge is installed | The day's top 3, per their launch rules |
| Badge required | Yes on the free tier; not on Premium | Yes, for the backlink |
| Cost to launch | Free, permanently. Paid tiers add placement and remove badge upkeep. | Free standard launch (queued); paid Premium skips the queue |
| Queue | None — the badge check is the only gate | Standard launches are queued |
| Competition format | A threshold, not a podium: 5 upvotes in 24 hours | Daily competition; ranking decides the reward |
| If you do not place | Clear the threshold and you keep everything, whatever your rank | Listing remains; badge and backlink go to the top 3 |
| Second chance | One free relaunch into a new week | Relaunching not offered as a free path |
| Outbound link | Dofollow while the badge is installed; permanent on Premium. Never sold. | See the link check below — measured, not asserted |
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.
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For most products these are not mutually exclusive. Launch week has room for more than one board, and neither platform asks for exclusivity.
A podium rewards you relative to whoever else happened to launch that day. A threshold rewards you relative to a fixed number. They select for different things: the podium selects for the biggest audience in the room, the threshold selects for having any real audience at all.
We chose the threshold because the thing being handed out is a followed link, and a link's value should not depend on how busy Tuesday was. 5 upvotes in 24 hours, counted from accounts that existed before they voted, applied identically to a funded team and a solo maker.
It has a cost. A threshold produces no drama and no leaderboard tension, and a competitive format genuinely does motivate people to promote their launch harder. If that pressure is what gets you to tell your users about the launch at all, the podium format is doing something useful for you.
Both platforms ask for a reciprocal badge, so on that axis there is nothing to choose between them — and both should be checked the same way. Open a live listing, view source, read the rel attribute. That is the only version of a dofollow claim worth anything.
One threshold, applied the same way to everyone, with a free second attempt if you miss it.