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

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Free to publish a startup, and the outbound links actually follow

earlylaunch.co
Earlylaunch homepage
Eligibility

Who Earlylaunch accepts

You need
A live public URL
An account, created through their signup form
You'll be rejected if
Nothing published about who is refused; the framing is early stage, so a mature product is off-pitch rather than ineligible.
StartupsIndie productsSaaS products
What you actually get
A published startup page on a directory aimed at founders showing an MVP or an early idea to users, investors and collaborators. The link follows: outbound links on live listings carry either rel="noopener" alone or no rel at all, with no nofollow anywhere among them. There is no published review time, so treat the wait as unknown rather than short.

How to submit to Earlylaunch

  1. Make an account
    Submitting is behind /signup/. It is a Django site with an ordinary email form and no social provider offered.
  2. Publish the startup
    Name, story and links, framed as telling your vision rather than filling a spec sheet.
  3. Consider promotion separately
    The paid plans live on their own promotion pricing page and are not part of the free submission.

Earlylaunch requirements

A live public URL
An account
A description of the startup and its story

Gotchas

Signing up is an email and password form with no Google or GitHub option, so an agent cannot get past it and a person has to make the account.
No review or publication time is stated anywhere, including on the pricing page, so there is nothing to plan a launch around.
The promotion plans are a separate purchase on a separate page, so the free submission gets none of what those pages advertise.

Let your agent submit to Earlylaunch

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Earlylaunch 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 Earlylaunch rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 3 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into Earlylaunch 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 Earlylaunch?".
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Earlylaunch FAQ

How long does Earlylaunch approval take?
Earlylaunch does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Earlylaunch?
Submitting to Earlylaunch is free.
Does Earlylaunch give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Earlylaunch carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 21.
Does Earlylaunch require a backlink to your site?
No, Earlylaunch does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Earlylaunch?
Nothing published about who is refused; the framing is early stage, so a mature product is off-pitch rather than ineligible.