- #indie
- #tournament
- #upvotes
- #backlink-required
Submit to LaunchNest
A launch directory for indie products built around a voting tournament: on the 1st and 16th of each month the 16 most upvoted products go into a knockout bracket and visitors vote round by round. It had about 1,550 live listings when checked, and its crowd is founders and builders who list, vote and review each other's products. A free listing only becomes public once the LaunchNest badge is installed on your site and verified, and that same check is what makes the link followed; the paid Featured tiers skip the badge.
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LaunchNest at a glance
- Pricing
- Free + paid options
- Free with a verified badge on your site (2 live listings per free account). Featured $19 one-time (shown down from $28): live at once, no badge, 7 days at the top. Featured SEO $35 (from $50): adds a review page, 15 days. 10 Featured credits $99. Refund within 14 days.
- Link type
- Dofollow
- On https://launchnest.io/p/riseme and https://launchnest.io/p/promptspend the 'Visit Site' link is rel="noopener noreferrer" (followed); secondary links such as pricing or docs are nofollow. The FAQ says a listing's link starts nofollow and is upgraded once the badge on your site passes verification, and paid tiers are followed without it. Which plan the sampled pages were on is not confirmed (checked 2026-11-12) What a dofollow link is
- Review
- Automatic
- Link back required
- Yes, a link back to them
- Account required
- Yes
- Domain Rating
- DR71
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs, checked Nov 12, 2026. A score of the whole site’s backlinks, not a Google metric.
- Tranco rank
- Not ranked
- No Tranco rank on record for this site.
- Who browses it
- Indie founders and builders who vote in the twice-monthly bracket, upvote and leave reviews; the site reports about 1,450 founders
- Last checked
How to submit to LaunchNest
Open the LaunchNest submission page
This is the page makers use to add a product.
Create an account
LaunchNest asks you to sign up before you can submit.
Have your assets ready
Name, tagline, description, logo and screenshots. The checklist below covers what to prepare so you can fill the form in one go.
Fill in the form carefully
Pick the most specific category the form offers and write the description for the people who browse LaunchNest (Indie founders and builders who vote in the twice-monthly bracket, upvote and leave reviews; the site reports about 1,450 founders), not for search engines.
Decide on the link back
They ask for a link or badge on your site. Decide whether you’re happy to add it before you submit.
Check your listing
Listings go live without review. Open yours, check the details and check the link points to the right page.
Tips for LaunchNest
- Nothing is public until the badge check passes: the badge must be on your own site, link to your LaunchNest listing and not be marked nofollow, sponsored or ugc. If that day is full the listing is queued.
- Brackets are seeded on the 1st and 16th from the 16 most upvoted products at that moment, so collect upvotes before those dates if you want a place.
- A free account can hold two live listings; a third needs a paid placement. One listing can sit in several of the 17 categories.
- A live listing can be relaunched into a new bracket from the dashboard, but only 30 days after its last launch date.
From LaunchNest’s own guidelines and pages, in our words.
What to prepare
The basics every directory asks for, plus what matters most for product launch platforms.
- Product name and a one-line tagline (about 60 characters)
- A short description (1–2 sentences) and a longer one (a short paragraph)
- Square logo, at least 256×256 px, PNG or SVG
- 2–3 screenshots at a consistent size
- The exact page you want the link to point to
- Pricing model (free, freemium or paid) and a contact email
- A chosen launch date, with time blocked to reply to comments
- A maker comment: why you built it and what feedback you want
- Gallery images or a short demo video
- An optional launch-day offer for that platform’s users
Is LaunchNest worth it?
A followed link, with a low bar
The listing link we inspected was followed, but listings go live without human review. Directories that accept everyone tend to carry less weight, so treat it as a small plus, not a priority.
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs: 71 (very strong). That's the strength of links to the whole site, not a promise about what your listing passes on.
- No Tranco rank on record, so we can’t say how much traffic it gets.
- Listings are published without human review.
- There’s a free option. Start free and only pay for upgrades if the traffic justifies it.
- They ask for a link back to their site. One reciprocal link is common, but Google’s spam policies list excessive link exchanges as a problem, so don’t do this for every directory.
This verdict is worked out from the facts above with fixed rules (link type, review, price, Domain Rating by Ahrefs, Tranco rank), not paid for. The directory has no say in it.
Questions about LaunchNest
Is LaunchNest free?
There’s a free option, with paid upgrades. Pricing details: Free with a verified badge on your site (2 live listings per free account). Featured $19 one-time (shown down from $28): live at once, no badge, 7 days at the top. Featured SEO $35 (from $50): adds a review page, 15 days. 10 Featured credits $99. Refund within 14 days. We checked on Nov 12, 2026.
Does LaunchNest give a dofollow link?
Yes. The listing link we inspected was a followed (dofollow) link. Evidence: On https://launchnest.io/p/riseme and https://launchnest.io/p/promptspend the 'Visit Site' link is rel="noopener noreferrer" (followed); secondary links such as pricing or docs are nofollow. The FAQ says a listing's link starts nofollow and is upgraded once the badge on your site passes verification, and paid tiers are followed without it. Which plan the sampled pages were on is not confirmed (checked 2026-11-12).
How do I submit to LaunchNest?
Submit at https://launchnest.io/submit. You need an account first. They ask for a link back to their site. Listings go live without human review. Tip: Nothing is public until the badge check passes: the badge must be on your own site, link to your LaunchNest listing and not be marked nofollow, sponsored or ugc. If that day is full the listing is queued.
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