Launch your SaaS
Launch your SaaS — free, in the week you pick, no editor
Most launch sites make you wait: an editor, a date three weeks out, or a payment to skip both. LetsLaunch takes up to 20 free launches a week: while this week has spots you join it straight away, and once it is full you book an upcoming week. You install a badge on your own site, and the check publishes you — within minutes if you trigger the re-check yourself, or as your booked week opens.
What you get is a dated launch on a public weekly board, a product page with a followed link to your site, and a listing that keeps working after launch day.
- $0 to launch, permanently — not a trial tier
- No review queue and no editor deciding what deserves a page
- A dofollow backlink from the moment the badge check passes
- Launch analytics: votes, visitors and outbound clicks, live
What a launch here gets you
Concretely, and with the limits stated.
A spot on the weekly board
Your launch lands on the current week's board — and because the clock starts when the badge check passes, never on a week that already closed while you were setting things up.
A followed link that is yours
One dofollow outbound link per listing. It is earned through the reciprocal badge and kept through the votes. It is never sold, at any price, to anyone.
A page built for search and for models
Structured data, an indexable product page, a plain-Markdown mirror at the same URL plus .md, and inclusion in /llms-full.txt — so an AI answer engine can read your listing without rendering JavaScript.
Real numbers, immediately
The dashboard shows votes, page views and outbound clicks as they happen, plus which internal pages are linking to your listing. No waiting a week for a report.
How a SaaS launch works here
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Paste your URL
The form reads your site and prefills the name, tagline, description, categories and screenshots. You edit what it got wrong, then join this week while free spots last, or book an upcoming week — 20 free launches a week.
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You're published
Your listing goes live straight away in this week, or as the upcoming week you booked opens — no editor, and no badge needed to be seen. Until the badge is up, its outbound link is nofollow.
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The badge earns the dofollow link
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, as long as it is not marked nofollow, ugc or sponsored. The check runs automatically, or trigger a re-check yourself; when it passes, your link turns dofollow.
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Collect 5 upvotes
You get 7 days 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 7 days 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 launch 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
$9
Skip the badge and the weekly queue — launch today, or any day you want.
Premium+
$29
Your launch, plus a week of homepage promotion and an article.
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.
Where your SaaS shows up after launch day
The traffic spike is one day. The listing is the asset — these are the surfaces it keeps appearing on.
The week's board, then its archive
Every week gets a permanent URL. Your launch stays on it forever, with the vote count it actually earned.
Category boards
Your listing is ranked on every category you picked, and those pages are indexed independently of the homepage.
Comparison and alternatives pages
The catalogue generates side-by-side comparisons and 'alternatives to X' pages, each of which is another internal link to your product page.
The SaaS directory and search
Browse, search, the SaaS directory view and the sitemap all carry the listing indefinitely, whether or not anyone is looking at the board that week.
On the board right now
This week's launches, ranked by upvotes — the board yours would join.
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Haptics Explorer
167h leftFeel iOS haptic patterns on a real iPhone, copy the code
Developer ToolsDR 7 - 2
Craic Hub Exchange
166h leftNon-custodial Solana exchange: swap, launch and pool coins from your own wallet
FinanceDR 2
Where to launch a SaaS, honestly
Launch advice tends to skip the part where most launch sites are worth very little to a SaaS. We looked at this concretely: we fetched real listing pages across the launch and directory landscape and read the outbound link's rel attribute rather than trusting the marketing copy. Plenty of sites advertising "dofollow backlinks" do not give one. Plenty more could not be verified at all.
So the ranking that matters is not "biggest audience" — it is whether the site sends you anything durable. Product Hunt is still the largest single-day spike available and worth doing for that reason alone. Beyond it, a launch is worth the hour if the page is indexable, the link is followed, and the listing survives past launch day.
LetsLaunch is deliberately narrow on all three. Publishing is gated on a reciprocal badge, which keeps our outbound profile made of makers who publicly vouch for the listing. Staying listed is gated on 5 upvotes in 7 days. And nothing about either gate is purchasable — Premium removes badge maintenance and adds placement, and that is the entire extent of what money does here.
The practical sequence for a SaaS launch week: ship somewhere with a real audience on day one, list here the same week so the followed link and the indexed page start ageing, and spend the rest of the week on the directories where you have verified the link is actually followed.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does it cost to launch a SaaS here?
- Nothing. The free launch includes the board slot, the product page, the dofollow link, comments and analytics. Premium ($9) removes the badge requirement and adds a verified badge and a custom meta description; Premium+ ($29) adds a long-form article on our blog. Neither buys votes, ranking, or survival.
- Is there a queue or a launch date I have to book?
- No long wait and nothing to pay. Free launches are capped at 20 a week so each gets seen: while this week has free spots you join it when you submit, and once it is full you book an upcoming week. Your launch begins once the badge check passes — in a booked week, as that week opens.
- What if I do not want to install a badge?
- Premium skips it entirely and gives a permanent dofollow link with nothing to maintain. On the free tier the badge is the price — it is what makes an outbound link from here mean something, and there is a 72-hour grace period before a badge that disappears costs you the followed link.
- Can I launch a SaaS that is still in beta?
- Yes, as long as somebody can actually use it. A waitlist page with no product is a poor fit — it will struggle to find votes, and the survival rule applies to it like everything else.
- Can I launch the same SaaS twice?
- A listing that missed its window gets one free relaunch into a new week. Beyond that, relaunching a major version is fine as a new submission if the product has genuinely changed; resubmitting the same thing repeatedly is not.
- Does paying improve my ranking on the board?
- No. Paid placement is rendered separately and labelled, and the board's order is upvotes. This is not a policy we can bend for anyone, because the moment it bends the votes stop meaning anything and so does the link.
Launch your SaaS this week
Submit, install the badge, and be on this week's board — or on the week you booked, as it opens.