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

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A weekly startup board with a hundred free spots a week, paid for with a badge that carries a live upvote count.

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Launchpadly homepage
Eligibility

Who Launchpadly accepts

You need
A live product URL
Their badge live on your site (free lane)
A Google, GitHub or email account
You'll be rejected if
Products with no working URL
StartupsSaaS productsAI toolsIndie products
What you actually get
A listing page at /startup/<slug> after an editorial review of one to three days, with what they call a permanent DR 67 dofollow link. Weeks run about a hundred spots, so the free lane is not a scarcity race.

How to submit to Launchpadly

  1. Sign in
    Google, GitHub or email. Creating an account subscribes you to their newsletter, which their own line under the button says out loud.
  2. Basics
    Pick a launch week from four on offer, then website URL, startup name and tagline. An Auto-fill button drafts the lot from your URL.
  3. Details
    A markdown description, one category from eighteen, and up to eight tech-stack tags.
  4. Media
    Logo and up to six screenshots, each either uploaded or given as a URL, plus an optional demo video. All optional.
  5. Tier, then verify the badge
    Free needs the badge; Featured and up skip it. Their server fetches the page you name and looks for the badge, then Submit for review unlocks.

Launchpadly requirements

Their badge live on your site, pointing at your listing (free lane)
A launch week chosen from the next four
Square logo, 2MB max, or a logo URLoptional
Screenshots, 4MB each, six maximumoptional

Gotchas

Their badge has to point at your listing page rather than their homepage, so it cannot be added before the wizard has reserved a slug for you.
The badge image renders a live upvote count fetched from their servers, so it is a script on your page as well as a link.
A site that hides the badge inside an iframe, which they name Wix and Framer as doing, has to prove ownership with a DNS TXT record instead.

Let your agent submit to Launchpadly

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Launchpadly 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 Launchpadly rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 4 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Launchpadly looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: featured $9 skips the review wait and the badge; Premium $29 adds a 1,000-word SEO review and a newsletter slot; Social Boost $149.
Types it into Launchpadly 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 Launchpadly?".
Connect your agentHow this worksTools and endpointsWorks with Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Hermes.

Launchpadly FAQ

How long does Launchpadly approval take?
Launchpadly's typical time from submission to going live is 3-5 days.
How much does it cost to submit to Launchpadly?
Launchpadly has a free submission option plus paid placement (Featured $9 skips the review wait and the badge; Premium $29 adds a 1,000-word SEO review and a newsletter slot; Social Boost $149).
Does Launchpadly give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Launchpadly carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 67.
Does Launchpadly require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Launchpadly expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Launchpadly?
Products with no working URL.