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Launchpad: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Six months of calendar to pick from, and a follow only for the day's top three

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Launchpad homepage
Eligibility

Who Launchpad accepts

You need
A live public URL
An account, created at sign-in
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published about who is refused, beyond the daily slot cap.
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What you actually get
A project page with a homepage feature, on a launch feed with an unusually long booking window of 180 days. The free lane's link does not follow unless the product finishes in the day's top three, which is a contest rather than a checklist item, so plan for a nofollow. At $3.95 the paid tier includes the dofollow outright, which is a much lower bar than the $9.9 the rest of this network charges.

How to submit to Launchpad

  1. Sign in
    Google, GitHub or email and password. Set the display name afterwards; it prints as the maker.
  2. Fill the project
    Name, URL, description, a square logo and a landscape image, then categories, tech stack, platforms and pricing.
  3. Book a date
    Five slots a day and a 180 day window, so the calendar is rarely the blocker here.
  4. Hope for the top three
    The free dofollow is awarded on the day's ranking, not on submission.

Launchpad requirements

A live public URL
Logo
1:1 square, under 1MB
Product image
16:9, around 800x450
Free slots
5 a day, bookable 180 days out
Dofollow
Top 3 on the day, or $3.95

Gotchas

The free dofollow is a prize for the day's top three, so you can launch exactly as planned and still finish fourth with a nofollow.
The paid tier that includes the link is $3.95, which is low enough that the free lane is mostly a way of finding out whether you can win the day.
No review time is published anywhere, so the 180 day booking window tells you when you may launch and nothing about when you are approved.

Let your agent submit to Launchpad

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Launchpad playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 3 Launchpad rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 5 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Launchpad in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Launchpad?".
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Launchpad FAQ

How long does Launchpad approval take?
Launchpad does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Launchpad?
Submitting to Launchpad is free.
Does Launchpad give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Launchpad are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 27.
Does Launchpad require a backlink to your site?
No, Launchpad does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Launchpad?
Nothing published about who is refused, beyond the daily slot cap.