Answers to the most common questions about launching on DiscoverLaunches, getting backlinks, startup directories and getting found on Google and in AI search. Can't find your answer? Email hello@discoverlaunches.com.
DiscoverLaunches is a weekly product launch platform and SEO-first startup directory for indie makers, SaaS founders and startups. Every launch gets a permanent product page, a dofollow backlink and an AI-readable profile so it can be found on Google and cited by AI assistants. Visit discoverlaunches.com.
Indie makers, solo founders, SaaS teams and small startups launching AI tools, SaaS products, developer tools, apps, browser extensions, newsletters, design resources and other digital products.
Product Hunt centres on a single launch day. DiscoverLaunches runs a full weekly board and focuses on long-term discovery: a permanent SEO product page, a dofollow backlink and AI-readable content that keep working after launch week.
Create a free account, upvote a few launches and leave one comment, then paste your URL at discoverlaunches.com/submit. AI pre-fills your listing, you edit it and pick a plan. A free launch goes live once our badge is on your site; paid launches go live as soon as they are paid.
There are 20 free launch slots per ISO week. Paid plans skip the weekly cap.
Products are ranked by upvotes, with engagement as a tiebreaker. When the week ends, the board is frozen into a permanent weekly archive, and every product keeps its own page.
A clear name and tagline, a short and a long description, a square logo, a few screenshots, your category and tags, your pricing model and a short maker comment explaining why you built the product.
Permanently. Product pages and weekly archives stay published after your launch week ends.
Yes. You can launch for free using one of the 20 weekly free slots, with the DiscoverLaunches badge on your site.
The $9 plan is for the dofollow backlink only, with no badge required. The $29 Premium plan adds a Verified check, placement above free launches and an in-depth launch story of about 1,800 words on our blog with four or more dofollow links into your site. See pricing.
Yes on every paid plan, always. On the free plan the link is dofollow while our badge is on your site, which is checked daily. Feed and archive links are nofollow on purpose so link equity concentrates on your product page.
Backlinks from relevant, trusted sites are one of the strongest signals search engines use to decide which pages to rank. A few good links can help a new domain start ranking much sooner.
The DiscoverLaunches directories list is a hand-checked list of startup and SaaS directories ranked by Ahrefs Domain Rating, with pricing and link type for each.
Yes. Free tools include a Domain Rating checker, bulk DR checker, dofollow/nofollow checker, backlink value calculator, website SEO checker, meta tags checker, SERP preview, Open Graph preview, OG image generator, keyword generator, startup name generator and tagline generator at discoverlaunches.com/tools.
No one can guarantee AI citations, but DiscoverLaunches makes your product much easier for AI assistants to find and describe accurately: every product page has a plain markdown version, all products are listed in llms.txt, and AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt.
Generative engine optimization is the practice of making your product easy for AI systems to find, understand and recommend in generated answers. It builds on SEO with extra focus on clear, consistent descriptions and machine-readable content.
Yes. Agents should start with llms.txt, use the markdown versions of product pages (add .md to a product URL) and avoid scraping the HTML.
Ready to launch? Submit your product or read our guides on how to launch a product, startup directories, backlinks and SEO for SaaS, getting cited by AI, and Product Hunt alternatives, all on this site.