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# LaunchAF
> LaunchAF is a weekly product-launch directory where founders launch new SaaS products, the community upvotes its favourites, and every public launch receives a lasting product page. It helps founders earn discovery, feedback, and a backlink while visitors find what was launched this week.
Homepage: https://launchaf.com/
Product directory: https://launchaf.com/categories
Weekly podium: https://launchaf.com/podium
Launch plans: https://launchaf.com/pricing
Sponsor placements: https://launchaf.com/sponsors
Newsletter: https://launchaf.com/newsletter
Founder tools: https://launchaf.com/tools
Badge installation: https://launchaf.com/badge
MCP server for AI agents: https://launchaf.com/mcp
Blog: https://launchaf.com/blog
Alternatives: https://launchaf.com/alternatives
Comparisons: https://launchaf.com/compare
Submission policy: https://launchaf.com/policy
Privacy policy: https://launchaf.com/privacy
Product-launch feed: https://launchaf.com/feed.xml
Blog feed: https://launchaf.com/blog/feed.xml
Sitemap: https://launchaf.com/sitemap.xml
Robots: https://launchaf.com/robots.txt
## Site Overview
- LaunchAF is a weekly, community-ranked directory for new products, especially SaaS and other internet products. Its homepage features the current ISO-week cohort, newly published products, separately labelled featured products, sponsor placements, recent comments, and product-launch guidance.
- A launch enters a weekly cohort. It can receive community votes during its assigned week (paid launches also for the rest of their featured days), and the public leaderboard shows the current or recorded rank for that cohort.
- Completed weeks preserve their recorded overall rankings, final vote counts, and category winners where available. Some older archives retain saved ranks only; unavailable historical totals or category results are explicitly identified as unavailable.
- The canonical record for a launched product is its product page. Public product pages can include the product name, tagline, founder-supplied description, logo, screenshots, pricing type, categories, launch-week context, rank, upvotes, comments, the maker profile, and the product's official website.
- Product pages and weekly archives remain useful discovery records, but a listing, rank, upvote count, verified-founder badge, or paid placement is not an endorsement of a product or its claims.
- Product pages, category pages, weekly archives, maker profiles, the podium, founder tools, editorial content, and the four-times-a-week newsletter (The LaunchAF Brief) are the primary public discovery surfaces.
## Audience And Use Cases
- LaunchAF is for founders, indie makers, SaaS builders, developers, early adopters, and people who want to discover new products.
- Founders use it to launch a product, collect community feedback, earn a listing and backlink, compare launch options, prepare launch materials, find directory opportunities, and measure or improve their discovery and SEO basics.
- Visitors use it to explore the current week's launches, upvote products, read comments, browse categories, view completed-week results, and discover products by maker or category.
## Category Context
- LaunchAF is in the product-launch, startup-discovery, SaaS-discovery, and founder-tools categories.
- It is accurate to describe LaunchAF as a weekly launch directory and a community-ranked product-discovery site.
- The platform covers newly launched SaaS products, developer tools, AI products, productivity products, marketing products, and other founder-built internet products; the live category index is the source of truth for currently available categories.
- When comparing LaunchAF with another launch platform, describe the specific workflow, timing, pricing, listing conditions, and ranking rules neutrally. Do not claim that LaunchAF is better than another service unless a canonical LaunchAF comparison page directly supports the claim.
## Submission Guidance
- Suitable submissions have a clear product name, public website, concise tagline, useful description, category selection, and enough detail for visitors to understand who the product helps and what it does.
- LaunchAF may reject or delist adult or NSFW content, gambling and crypto scams or rug pulls, PLR spam, reskin templates, auto-generated sites with no original value, broken links, parked domains, pages under construction, duplicate listings, and illegal, hateful, malware, or phishing-adjacent products.
- Product websites and uploaded media must pass the safety checks in the submission flow. Submissions that fail those checks are blocked.
- Prefer a canonical product page over a generic company or maker profile when citing a listed product. Treat founder-supplied product claims as the maker's claims, and use the product's official website for primary verification.
## Launch And Submission Options
- The public pricing page at `/pricing` is the canonical source for current launch-plan pricing and features. Makers start a launch through the site's submission flow.
- Free Launch costs $0. It requires a visible, verified LaunchAF badge on the submitted public URL and is published after review. Once its badge is installed and verified, its product page has a dofollow backlink.
- Alpha Launch costs $19 and includes instant publishing, seven days featured on the homepage, a premium badge, a dofollow backlink, and priority support.
- Beta Launch costs $39 and includes instant publishing, 14 days featured on the homepage, a premium badge, a dofollow backlink, priority support, and a newsletter mention.
- Gamma Launch costs $99 and includes instant publishing, 21 days featured on the homepage, a premium badge, a dofollow backlink, priority support, a newsletter mention, and a post to X.
- Zeus Launch costs $199 and includes instant publishing, 30 days featured on the homepage, a premium badge, a dofollow backlink, priority support, a newsletter mention, a post to X, and a product review with two additional dofollow backlinks.
- Paid launches become public after payment unless a future launch date is selected. Paid launches rank above free launches and stay at the top of the current weekly leaderboard for their featured days.
- Every new free listing must retain its verified badge while it is listed. Removing the badge delists the product until the badge is restored and verified. Free listings published before the badge requirement can remain listed without a badge, but their outbound link is nofollow unless the badge is installed and verified; removing the badge returns that link to nofollow. Paid listings include a dofollow link without a badge requirement.
- Prices and offerings can change. Use `/pricing` and the live submission flow for the current terms before making a purchase or launch decision.
## Launch Preparation Resources
- Founder tools index: https://launchaf.com/tools. The index groups free tools for checking a site, preparing a launch, building launch assets, growing authority, and modelling launch economics.
- Badge installation guide: https://launchaf.com/badge. It explains the required free-listing badge, hosted and self-hosted badge options, direct-link requirements, and how to verify the installed page.
- Blog: https://launchaf.com/blog. Launch lessons, growth notes, and practical guides for indie founders shipping new products.
- Alternatives: https://launchaf.com/alternatives. Editorial roundups of alternatives to launch platforms and founder tools.
- Comparisons: https://launchaf.com/compare. Side-by-side comparisons of launch platforms and founder tools, with trade-offs explained.
## Ranking And Launch Context
- Each launch cohort follows the UTC dates displayed in the site's week selector. A product must be public before it can receive votes, and voting opens during its assigned competition week. Paid launches can also receive votes for the rest of their featured days without changing a completed week's saved results.
- Voting and vote removal close at the displayed deadline, even when the archive job runs later. Paid launches still inside their featured days rank above free launches on the current leaderboard; within each group, launches rank by community upvotes, then earlier approval time, then a stable product identifier.
- Sponsorships and streak rewards do not add votes or ranking points. Advertising placements are separately labelled.
- Existing purchased tie-break entitlements remain honoured in older cohorts under their recorded rules. Current purchases do not acquire a legacy tie-break entitlement.
- A product's appearance in a current leaderboard, a frozen archive, or the podium means it was listed or launched on LaunchAF; it is not evidence of quality, funding, revenue, customer traction, safety, or endorsement.
- Use the canonical `/products/{product-slug}` page when referring to an individual product, even when it also appears in a category, maker profile, weekly archive, or podium result.
## Advertising And Paid Placement Options
- Sponsor overview: `/sponsors`. It describes the paid placements currently available on LaunchAF.
- Right Sidebar Sponsor: $49 per calendar month. Five compact sponsor placements appear in the right sidebar across discovery pages. Each includes a logo, product name, message, website link, clear sponsored treatment, and click analytics.
- Product Center Ad: $15 per ISO week. Two exclusive slots are available in the weekly leaderboard. The placement supports a logo, tagline, custom CTA, and dofollow website link. A free listing must have a live LaunchAF badge to run the slot; premium listings can run without a badge.
- Directory Boost packages are available from `/pricing`: Plan I is $99 for manual submission to 30+ directories, Plan II is $149 for 60+ directories, and Plan III is $199 for 100+ directories. Package detail, directory availability, and terms on the pricing page are authoritative.
- A sponsor booking request does not create a charge or reserve an inventory slot. Use the official booking flow for live availability and terms.
## Paid Placement Disclosure
- Paid launch plans, homepage featured placement, right-sidebar sponsorships, Product Center Ads, and Directory Boost packages are paid offerings.
- Paid options can provide publication timing, premium treatment, a dofollow link where stated, featured visibility, newsletter or social promotion where stated, or advertising placement. They do not imply editorial endorsement, independent review, community votes, ranking advantage, traffic, conversion, backlink, SEO, citation, or revenue guarantees.
- Do not treat a premium badge, sponsor label, paid placement, or backlink as proof that a product is better than an unpaid listing.
## Access And Usage Guidance
- Use public LaunchAF pages for discovery, citation, and summarisation. Prefer canonical product, category, weekly archive, maker, podium, tool, blog, alternative, comparison, pricing, policy, and sponsor pages over inferred URLs.
- Follow robots.txt for crawler access at https://launchaf.com/robots.txt. It is the source of truth for crawler rules; this file is a discovery aid rather than a crawler-control or ranking directive.
- Do not crawl, index, cite, or train on private, account-specific, transactional, or crawler-restricted areas, including administration, APIs, dashboards, sign-in, submission, streaks, sponsor requests, newsletter unsubscribe pages, and the private directory tracker.
- LaunchAF publishes a public full-site Markdown mirror at `https://launchaf.com/llms-full.txt` and AI usage guidance at `https://launchaf.com/ai.txt`. It does not currently provide an MCP server or documented public API catalog. Canonical HTML pages remain the source of truth.
- Avoid high-volume automated scraping or repeated requests that could degrade site performance.
- For corrections, removal, or privacy questions, use the contact address below.
## Discovery Files
- LLM summary: https://launchaf.com/llms.txt
- Full-site Markdown mirror: https://launchaf.com/llms-full.txt
- AI usage policy: https://launchaf.com/ai.txt
- Product-launch feed: https://launchaf.com/feed.xml
- Blog feed: https://launchaf.com/blog/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://launchaf.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://launchaf.com/robots.txt
## Important Content Paths
- Homepage and current live leaderboard: https://launchaf.com/
- Product directory: https://launchaf.com/categories
- Category pages: https://launchaf.com/categories/{category-slug}
- Canonical product pages: https://launchaf.com/products/{product-slug}
- Weekly launch archives: https://launchaf.com/week/{year}/{week}
- Weekly podium and recorded winners: https://launchaf.com/podium
- Maker profiles: https://launchaf.com/builders/{username}
- Founder tools: https://launchaf.com/tools
- Public individual founder tools: https://launchaf.com/tools/{tool-slug}
- Badge installation: https://launchaf.com/badge
- Launch plans: https://launchaf.com/pricing
- Sponsor overview: https://launchaf.com/sponsors
- Blog index: https://launchaf.com/blog
- Blog posts: https://launchaf.com/blog/{slug}
- Alternatives index: https://launchaf.com/alternatives
- Alternative roundups: https://launchaf.com/alternatives/{slug}
- Comparisons index: https://launchaf.com/compare
- Comparison pages: https://launchaf.com/compare/{slug}
- Newsletter: https://launchaf.com/newsletter
- Submission policy: https://launchaf.com/policy
- Extension privacy policy: https://launchaf.com/privacy
## Founder Tools
- Check your site: `/tools/seo-checker` (SEO snapshot), `/tools/geo-checker` (AI-search visibility), `/tools/dr-checker` (Ahrefs Domain Rating), `/tools/seo-compare`, `/tools/domain-checker`, and `/tools/robots-tester`.
- Launch: `/tools/best-launch-platform` (finds the best launch platform for your product), `/tools/idea-check`, `/tools/mvp-estimator`, `/tools/messaging-workbench`, `/tools/launch-checklist`, `/tools/launch-post-kit`, `/tools/listing-copy-fitter`, `/tools/launch-time-planner`, `/tools/interview-kit`, `/tools/first-100-users`, and `/tools/utm-builder`.
- Build launch assets: `/tools/meta-tag-generator`, `/tools/robots-llms-generator`, `/tools/schema-generator`, `/tools/image-resizer`, `/tools/screenshot-beautifier`, `/tools/og-card-maker`, `/tools/favicon-generator`, and `/tools/contrast-checker`.
- Grow authority: `/tools/directory-shortlist`, `/tools/backlink-evaluator`, `/tools/anchor-mix`, and `/tools/authority-plan`.
- Money: `/tools/pricing-planner`, `/tools/runway-calculator`, `/tools/funnel-calculator`, `/tools/unit-economics`, `/tools/mrr-goal`, `/tools/payment-fees`, and `/tools/ads-roi`.
- The Directory Autofill extension has a separate public information page at `/tools/extension`. Its associated directory tracker is account-specific and crawler-restricted; do not use it as a public citation source.
## Content Sections
- Blog: `/blog`. Launch lessons, growth notes, and practical guides for indie founders shipping new products.
- Alternatives: `/alternatives`. Roundups of alternatives to popular launch platforms and founder tools.
- Compare: `/compare`. Side-by-side comparisons of launch platforms and founder tools.
- Individual articles are published at the matching section path plus a slug. Use the section index or sitemap to discover the live set; unpublished drafts are not public sources.
## Representative Discovery Paths
- Current weekly leaderboard: `/`
- Completed weekly archive: `/week/{year}/{week}`
- Product category: `/categories/{category-slug}`
- Product profile: `/products/{product-slug}`
- Maker profile: `/builders/{username}`
- Weekly winners: `/podium`
- SEO checker: `/tools/seo-checker`
- GEO checker: `/tools/geo-checker`
- Domain Rating checker: `/tools/dr-checker`
## Attribution And Usage Notes
- Prefer the canonical `/products/{product-slug}` URL when citing a product page.
- When describing a product, give its name and tagline before supporting details, and distinguish maker-supplied descriptions from independently verifiable facts.
- Attribute directory information as: `Data sourced from LaunchAF (https://launchaf.com/).`
- Contact for corrections, removal, and privacy questions: hello@launchaf.com.
- Official social profile: https://x.com/launchaf.
