Built for Makers Who Ship

Launchpad is a daily launch board for indie makers and startups. Every day a limited number of products go live at 8:00 AM UTC, get voted on by real people, and earn the kind of visibility and backlinks that keep working long after launch day.

Our Mission

Shipping a product is the hard part. Being found afterwards should not be.

Our mission is to give every good product one fair, well-lit day in front of an audience that is actively looking for new tools, and to leave behind something permanent: an indexed page, a real backlink, and reviews from people who tried it.

How Launchpad Started

We built Launchpad because we kept hitting the same wall with our own products. We would launch into a firehose of fifty other launches, watch traffic spike for a few hours, and then watch it disappear completely. A week later there was nothing left to show for it: no lasting search traffic, no link that mattered, no audience.

The problem was never the products. It was the format. Launch boards that publish everything end up burying everything, and the only makers who win are the ones with a mailing list big enough to bring their own crowd.

So we built the board we wanted to launch on. We cap how many products go live each day. We let the community decide the rankings. And we guarantee a dofollow backlink on every paid launch, because the traffic you get on day one matters far less than the traffic you still get in month six.

What Makes Us Different

A Curated Daily Slate

We publish up to 10 launches a day and 3 premium launches a week. Fewer products on the page means every one of them actually gets seen.

Backlinks That Count

Every paid launch includes a guaranteed dofollow backlink from your project page. It keeps sending signals to search engines long after your launch day ends.

Rankings Earned, Not Bought

Daily rankings come from community upvotes alone. Sponsored listings are clearly labeled and have no impact on organic rankings, so the leaderboard stays worth reading.

Reviewed by Humans

Our review articles start with real product testing, notes, screenshots, and custom illustrations. Everything is reviewed, edited, and finalized by us, a human team.

How We Work

Launchpad is run by a small independent team rather than a marketing department. That shapes how we do everything.

Small and independent
We are a small team running Launchpad ourselves. No investors to please, no growth targets that push us to flood the homepage.
Support you can reach
Write to [email protected] and a person answers. There is no ticket maze and no chatbot standing between you and an answer.
Pricing in the open
Every price and every limit is published before you pay. What a plan includes is exactly what you get, with no upsell after checkout.