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

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The green one of four identical launch boards from one operator

trustedlaunches.com
Trusted Launches homepage
Eligibility

Who Trusted Launches accepts

You need
An account: Google, GitHub or email and password
Their badge on your site, for the free lane
A square logo under 1 MB and a 16:9 product image
You'll be rejected if
The free lane is gated behind a verifier that fetches your homepage, so a product you cannot add HTML to has to pay $9.90 or stay off.
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What you actually get
A project page and a Monday slot on a weekly leaderboard, with a dofollow link on every tier including the free one. The site is one of at least four running the same DirEasy software, alongside Launch Ranking, Go Lanz, Trusted Launches and Verified Launches, so the audience is whatever this particular clone has gathered rather than a distinct community.

How to submit to Trusted Launches

  1. Sign in
    Google, GitHub, or email and password. /projects/submit redirects to /sign-in and back.
  2. Step 1, Project Info
    Name, website URL, an optional affiliate URL, a rich-text short description, a square logo of at most 1 MB and a 16:9 product image.
  3. Step 2, Details
    Up to three categories from a list of hundreds, up to five tech stack tags entered one at a time, the platforms, a pricing model, and optional GitHub and X URLs.
  4. Step 3, Launch Date
    Free Launch is preselected, with a Backlink Badge Verification panel underneath holding the embed code, a checkbox and a Verify Backlink button.
  5. Publish the badge, verify, then finish
    Next stays disabled until the verifier finds the badge, and only then can you reach the Review step.

Trusted Launches requirements

A live URL
Logo
square, max 1 MB
Product image
16:9, around 800x450
Badge
on your site, for the free lane

Gotchas

The free launch costs a permanent badge on your site, checked by their verifier before the form will complete.
The free queue is up to 30 days and launches only happen at 08:00 UTC on Mondays, so this is a scheduled slot rather than a listing.
It is one of at least four sites running the same software with the same prices and a different accent colour: Launch Ranking, Go Lanz, Trusted Launches and Verified Launches. Submitting to all of them means four badges in your footer for one operator.
The $9.90 tier exists to skip that queue, and the site pushes a $49 SEO article package alongside it.

Let your agent submit to Trusted Launches

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Trusted 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 Trusted Launches 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, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Trusted Launches 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: free Launch is $0, needs their badge verified on your site, and waits up to 30 days. Premium is $9.90 and skips the queue, Premium Plus $12.90 adds a permanent featured border and a home page spot, and there is a $49 SEO article package on top.
Types it into Trusted 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 Trusted Launches?".
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Trusted Launches FAQ

How long does Trusted Launches approval take?
Trusted Launches's typical time from submission to going live is 1-2 months.
How much does it cost to submit to Trusted Launches?
Trusted Launches has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free Launch is $0, needs their badge verified on your site, and waits up to 30 days. Premium is $9.90 and skips the queue, Premium Plus $12.90 adds a permanent featured border and a home page spot, and there is a $49 SEO article package on top.).
Does Trusted Launches give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Trusted Launches carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 14.
Does Trusted Launches require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Trusted Launches expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Trusted Launches?
The free lane is gated behind a verifier that fetches your homepage, so a product you cannot add HTML to has to pay $9.90 or stay off.