Overview
The Launch Directory is a week-by-week publication that files product, startup and business launches onto permanent, dated pages. Rather than chasing a single day of traffic, it positions each entry as a durable record that search engines and AI assistants can read, quote and cite after launch week has passed.
Key Features
- Permanent dated entries — Every submission is archived inside a numbered weekly edition (for example, Week 44 of 2026), giving each launch a stable URL and date stamp that outlives the news cycle.
- Community-vote rankings — Signed-in readers order the weekly list. The publication states plainly that votes cannot be bought, and it quarantines paid exposure in a separate "Billboard" column sorted by money contributed rather than popularity.
- Domain Rating tracking — Listings display Ahrefs Domain Rating with daily up, down or unchanged deltas, while the site itself publishes its own Domain Rating, Majestic Trust Flow and Citation Flow figures for transparency.
- MCP endpoint and developer API — A custom connector at /mcp lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code search launches, compare alternatives and submit products from inside a chat, backed by developer docs and API keys.
- Monetisation and discovery surfaces — A $19 weekly front-page slot, $5-plus billboard notices, leaderboards, a category index, a founders directory, ranked launch-directory comparisons and a Monday newsletter round out the offering.
Who It Suits
Indie makers and small teams who want a low-cost, evergreen citation rather than a transient spike are the clearest fit, particularly those already filing across multiple directories on the same day. The trade-off is scale: recent weekly tallies range from zero to a few dozen launches, so the archive's value grows with adoption, and single-digit vote counts mean rankings carry limited statistical weight.
