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

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A daily launch board on the open-source Open-Launch codebase, with five free slots a day that are spoken for months in advance and a $9 lane that skips them.

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Open Launch homepage
Eligibility

Who Open Launch accepts

You need
An account, created by Google sign-in in one click
A logo and a wide product image, both uploaded rather than linked
A launch date, which decides when the listing goes on the board
You'll be rejected if
Anyone who needs a listing on the board within six months on the free lane, since the free calendar is booked to the far edge of its 180-day window
Anyone counting on the link, because the free lane's dofollow is conditional on a top-three finish and is nofollow until then
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What you actually get
A project page that goes live the moment you submit, carrying a Scheduled banner and your launch date, then a day on the board at 08:00 UTC when that date arrives. Categories, tech stack and your GitHub and Twitter links all render on it, and the page stays up afterwards as a permanent listing.

How to submit to Open Launch

  1. Sign in
    Google sign-in creates the account in one click, with no separate registration form.
  2. Project Info
    Name, website URL, a tagline capped at 160 characters, a rich-text description, then the logo and product image as file uploads.
  3. Details
    Up to three categories, up to five tech-stack tags, the platforms it runs on, a pricing model, and optional GitHub and Twitter URLs.
  4. Launch Date
    Free Launch or Premium Launch, then a date from the calendar. The free calendar lists 180 days and greys out every one that is full.
  5. Review and submit
    A read-only summary of everything, then Submit Project. The project page exists immediately, marked Scheduled until the launch date.

Open Launch requirements

An account on the site
Product name
shown as the listing title
Tagline
160 characters
Description
rich text, entered in an editor
Logo file
uploaded, not a URL
Product image
wide, uploaded, not a URL
Categories
up to 3 from their list
Tech stack
up to 5 free-text tags
GitHub and Twitter URLsoptional

Gotchas

The free calendar offers 180 days and almost none of them are bookable. On the day this was walked, one date was open, at the far end of the window six months out, and the other 179 were full.
The followed link is a prize for the day's top three, not something the listing comes with. Everything below that keeps the nofollow it launches with.
The board is not the same site as open-launch.com, which runs the same open-source code at a higher domain rating. Listings do not carry across, so submitting to one does nothing for the other.

Let your agent submit to Open Launch

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Open 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 5 Open Launch rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 9 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: free Launch is $0: five slots a day, scheduling up to 180 days out, and a followed link only if the launch finishes top three. Premium Launch is $9 and skips the queue, with a followed link from day one, ten slots a day and a homepage feature for seven days.
Types it into Open 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 Open Launch?".
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Open Launch FAQ

How long does Open Launch approval take?
Open Launch's typical time from submission to going live is 6+ months.
How much does it cost to submit to Open Launch?
Open Launch has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free Launch is $0: five slots a day, scheduling up to 180 days out, and a followed link only if the launch finishes top three. Premium Launch is $9 and skips the queue, with a followed link from day one, ten slots a day and a homepage feature for seven days.).
Does Open Launch give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Open Launch are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 34.
Does Open Launch require a backlink to your site?
No, Open Launch does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Open Launch?
Anyone who needs a listing on the board within six months on the free lane, since the free calendar is booked to the far edge of its 180-day window; Anyone counting on the link, because the free lane's dofollow is conditional on a top-three finish and is nofollow until then.