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Nick Launches: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A weekly launch board running about 107 launches a week that ships its own MCP server, so an agent can draft the listing and a human still has to publish it.

nicklaunches.com
Nick Launches homepage
Eligibility

Who Nick Launches accepts

You need
An account: Google sign-in, or email and password
A live product URL, which the form prefills the listing from
A logo and screenshots
You'll be rejected if
Nothing structural is published; an admin reviews every listing before it goes live
SaaS productsAI toolsDeveloper toolsIndie productsMarketing toolsProductivity tools
What you actually get
A product page and a place on a weekly leaderboard that was running 107 launches in week 34 of 2026, with a medal for the top three. Their pitch is a permanent followed link from a DR 72 site, and their footer is a long wall of other directories they are themselves listed on, which tells you the shape of the network this sits in.

How to submit to Nick Launches

  1. Choose classic or agent
    /submit offers two routes: the browser form, or connecting their MCP server once and having an agent draft the listing from your URL.
  2. Sign in
    Google, or email and password. The plan step will not render without a session.
  3. Fill the listing
    Paste the URL and let the prefill run, then review everything, upload a logo and screenshots. Drafts save, so the run can be resumed.
  4. Pick a plan and a launch week
    /submit/plan/ is where the tier and the week are chosen. It is a human step by design: their own docs say no tool and no endpoint can select a plan, pick a week, create a payment or publish.
  5. Wait for the admin review
    An admin reviews the listing before it goes live, whichever route created it.

Nick Launches requirements

An account (Google, or email and password)
A live product URL
A logo and screenshots
A launch week and a plan, both chosen by a human
Their badge, offered in light and dark for both free and premium launchesoptional

Gotchas

The plan and the price are behind the login: /submit/plan/ renders the sign-in card to anyone signed out, so you cannot find out what a launch costs before creating an account.
An agent can prepare the whole listing and can never finish it. Their docs are explicit that a submission created through the API lands in draft and stops, and that a human completes the plan step, which is deliberate and not configurable.
There is no /pricing page at all; the guessable URL 404s, and the only clue to the tiers from outside is that the badge page offers separate free and premium badge art.

Let your agent submit to Nick Launches

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Nick Launches 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 Nick Launches rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 5 fields this form asks for, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: the plan step at /submit/plan/ is behind the login, so the figures are not readable without an account. The badge page distinguishes free and premium launches and offers separate badge art for each, which is how the two tiers are visible from outside.
Types it into Nick Launches 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 Nick Launches?".
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Nick Launches FAQ

How long does Nick Launches approval take?
Nick Launches's typical time from submission to going live is about a week.
How much does it cost to submit to Nick Launches?
Nick Launches has a free submission option plus paid placement (The plan step at /submit/plan/ is behind the login, so the figures are not readable without an account. The badge page distinguishes free and premium launches and offers separate badge art for each, which is how the two tiers are visible from outside.).
Does Nick Launches give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Nick Launches carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 72.
Does Nick Launches require a backlink to your site?
No, Nick Launches does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Nick Launches?
Nothing structural is published; an admin reviews every listing before it goes live.