Launch from $15permanent listing, DR 72 backlink

Launch once. Stay discoverable.

StartupBase is a product launch platform and a Product Hunt alternative. Since 2017 we have published 3.7K+ products. Every one keeps a permanent page, a launch date, and a place in the rankings long after launch day.

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Fresh products from founders, organized for fast discovery.

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Browse by category, collection, maker, ranking, and launch history.

Weekly discovery
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Standout launches keep reaching product-focused subscribers.

A real home for your product, not just another post

A social post disappears in a day. A StartupBase listing does not: it gets a launch date, a rank, and a page that stays public and indexed for good.

  • Launch free, or from $39 to skip the queue and choose your own date
  • Every paid launch carries a permanent dofollow backlink from a DR 72 domain
  • Product pages never expire, and stay wired into topics, collections, launch archives, and the weekly newsletter
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Built for both sides of product discovery

Founders get a credible place to show what they are building. Explorers get a calmer way to find useful products before everyone else does.

For founders

Show the product properly, pick when it goes live, and keep one page working for you long after launch day.

  • A full profile: screenshots, video, makers, links, pricing, and topics
  • Your own launch date on a paid tier, or a queue slot for free
  • Badges to win, reviews to collect, and an embeddable badge for your site

For explorers

Find what builders are shipping by launch date, category, collection, maker, and community activity without digging through noisy feeds.

  • Track fresh launches across software, AI, productivity, marketing, and developer tools
  • Follow rankings, reviews, discussions, and weekly newsletter picks
  • Use topics and collections to compare products in a focused context

Four simple steps, lasting visibility

Launching stays straightforward while strong products get more ways to keep earning attention long after launch day.

01

Submit

Add your product, tagline, media, makers, website, and the details people need to understand it.

02

Choose

Join the community queue or choose a paid launch plan for faster scheduling and stronger visibility.

03

Launch

Go live on StartupBase and build momentum through rankings, upvotes, reviews, comments, and weekly discovery.

04

Grow

Keep getting discovered through launch archives, topic pages, collections, SEO, and promotion options.

How ranking works, in plain terms

Where a product lands on launch day is earned, not bought. Here is what counts, and what paying will not do for you.

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The community moves the list

Upvotes and comments from real visitors do most of the work, with reviews and launch-day activity alongside them.

Badges come from the same list you see

Weekly and monthly badges are awarded from exactly the order visitors were looking at. There is no separate editorial ranking behind the scenes.

What paying does, and does not, do

Paying buys clearly labelled slots, not a place in the organic order. A premium product can never overtake one the community has backed harder, and Outrank cards are paid and labelled too. Neither one moves a product up the launch list.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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StartupBase is a product launch platform and a Product Hunt alternative. Founders publish a product page, launch it on a chosen date, and keep being found afterwards through launch archives, topic pages, collections, reviews and a weekly newsletter. It has been publishing launches since 2017 and now hosts 3.7K+ product listings.
Yes. Browsing is free, and there are two free ways to launch. A badge-verified free launch asks you to put the StartupBase badge on your own site; it joins the priority queue and typically publishes in about 4-5 weeks. A standard free launch needs no badge, joins the community queue, and has an estimated wait of 10+ weeks. You can hold one free launch in the queue at a time.
Paid launches are one-time payments, never subscriptions. Launch ($39) skips the queue, lets you pick your own launch date, and guarantees a homepage feature. Boost ($99) adds 30 days on the homepage. Ultimate ($299) adds 60 days on the homepage, a newsletter feature and a 1,000+ word editorial review article. Current pricing always lives on the launch page.
Every paid launch includes a permanent dofollow backlink from StartupBase, currently a DR 72 domain. The link stays live for as long as the listing does. A badge-verified free launch works the other way round: it asks you to link to StartupBase from your own site.
No. Product pages stay public, indexed and linked from topics, collections and the launch archives permanently, whether you paid or not. Only the paid extras are time-limited: homepage placement runs for 30 or 60 days depending on the tier.
Every submission is reviewed before it goes live. Once it is approved you choose how to launch: join a free queue and get a date assigned, or take a paid tier and pick your own date up to 30 days ahead.
Anything without a working website or a real product behind it. That means broken or placeholder sites, pages that describe a company rather than something people can actually use, agencies and consultancies with no product, resold software and discount-key storefronts, and listings too thin to tell a reader what the product does. A clear name, website, tagline, description and audience is the bar.
Product Hunt is the bigger audience and is built around launch day. StartupBase is smaller and built around what comes after it: rankings that run daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, a permanent page wired into topics and collections, and a dofollow backlink on every paid launch. Most founders use both.
Product Hunt is the largest. Others worth knowing are Uneed, Fazier, Tiny Launch, Tiny Startups, MicroLaunch, BetaList and Indie Hackers. Most founders list on several rather than choosing one, and a launch on one platform does not rule out the rest.
On one surface, yes, and it is labelled as such. Outrank is a launch board rather than an ad slot: pay any amount from $15, once, and your card ranks by the total ever paid for it. The top eight sit on the homepage and the top three in the sidebar across the site. Everywhere else, from launch rankings to topics and collections, position is not for sale, and paid placement never counts as an editorial endorsement.
Yes, a weekly issue of standout launches going to 14.6K+ subscribers. Products can appear in it editorially, as part of the Ultimate tier, or as a paid sponsorship, and sponsored slots are marked.
StartupBase was founded and is run by Atta (attacomsian.com, @attacomsian on X). It is independent and self-funded, and has been publishing launches since 2017. For corrections, removals or partnership questions, email [email protected].
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