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AI Launch: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Eligibility

Who AI Launch accepts

You need
A live public URL
A square logo and a landscape product image
Their badge on a page they can reach
You'll be rejected if
No badge means no free listing at all here, not merely a nofollow link: the launch step will not advance without it.
AI toolsSaaS productsDeveloper toolsIndie products
What you actually get
A card for AI tools, on a domain hack that reads as a launch in a launch feed that runs a limited number of projects a day at 08:00 UTC, reviewed and listed within up to 30 days on the free lane. The link follows once their verifier has found your badge; listings without one carry rel="nofollow". The same operator runs several near-identical sites on this codebase with the same copy, and sells a package of links across them, so treat the neighbourhood as one network rather than as separate audiences.

How to submit to AI Launch

  1. Sign in
    Google, GitHub or email and password. Google creates the account on the first click. Set your display name before you go further: it arrives as whatever the Google account is called and it is printed as the maker.
  2. Project Info
    Name, website URL, an optional affiliate URL, a short description in a rich text box, a square logo and a landscape product image. There is an AI Autofill button beside the URL that rewrites fields from your page.
  3. Details
    Up to three categories from a searchable list of several hundred, up to five tech stack tags, the platforms you run on, a pricing model, and optional GitHub and X links.
  4. Launch type and badge
    The free lane is selected by default. Copy the badge snippet, put it live, then press Verify Backlink. The Next button stays disabled until that passes.
  5. Review
    The last screen before the launch date is confirmed.

AI Launch requirements

A live public URL
Logo
1:1 square, under 1MB
Product image
16:9, around 800x450
Short description
A rich text box, no counter shown
Categories
Up to 3
Tech stack
Up to 5 tags
Badge
Live and verified before the form will advance

Gotchas

The badge is not a last step here, it is a gate in the middle: the launch step refuses to advance until their verifier has found it, so you deploy to your own site before you can even choose a date.
The dofollow is the badge's reward rather than the listing's default, so a listing that goes up without one is carrying rel="nofollow" like the rest of the feed.
Several sites on this codebase share the same copy, the same form and the same badge trade, so filling this one teaches you the others and submitting to all of them is not five audiences.

Let your agent submit to AI Launch

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the AI Launch 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 4 AI Launch rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 7 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that AI Launch looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Types it into AI Launch 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 AI Launch?".
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AI Launch FAQ

How long does AI Launch approval take?
AI Launch's typical time from submission to going live is 2-4 weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to AI Launch?
Submitting to AI Launch is free.
Does AI Launch give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on AI Launch carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 24.
Does AI Launch require a backlink to your site?
Yes, AI Launch expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from AI Launch?
No badge means no free listing at all here, not merely a nofollow link: the launch step will not advance without it.