Smol Launch

You get a full week in front of 16,000+ makers, not 24 hours. Free launches are paced at 50 per week so the home page stays worth scrolling. When a week fills you go into the next open one, and your listing keeps its spot through Sunday.

Yes. Every approved product gets a permanent listing that links to your site and keeps sending referral traffic. Verify the free Smol Launch badge on your site to become a verified listing, or skip the badge with Premium or the Maker Pass.

Yes. Plain free submissions are paced at 50 a week, and badge-verified launches are also free with 50 slots a week. Both are platform-wide pools shared by every maker, not per-maker allowances. They set which week you launch in, not whether you can: when a week fills, the next one opens and you keep your place in line. Premium and the yearly Maker Pass skip badge work and skip the wait. Premium+ also includes a one-week Featured Spot in the first available week after your launch week, plus a feature in our weekly newsletter. Launch Everywhere is a separate directory-submission service from $99, and separately booked Featured Spots remain optional add-ons. Free tiers cover a product's first launch; relaunches run on Premium.

Smol Launch, sometimes written as one word as smollaunch, is a weekly product-launch platform for indie makers at smollaunch.com. Submissions open every Monday, community voting runs through Sunday, and products are ranked by a multi-factor scoring algorithm that weighs vote velocity, maker reputation, engagement, and fraud signals.

Yes. Smol Launch focuses on weekly launch cohorts instead of the 24-hour Product Hunt format, which gives indie makers a full week of visibility per launch and reduces time-zone disadvantage. See our Product Hunt comparison for a side-by-side breakdown.

Smol Launch is operated by Smol Launch's editorial team. Submissions are reviewed by automated checks plus human moderation through an admin cockpit before they go live.

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Every launch — free or Premium — appears on the home page and competes in the same weekly ranking; placement is earned, not bought. The difference is verification and flexibility. A plain free launch gets a standard listing. Verifying your site with the Smol Launch badge upgrades it to a verified listing that search engines trust. Premium includes a permanent, high-authority backlink to your site with no badge to install or verify, and you can launch any week, as often as you like.

Verification confirms you control the site you're listing. On the free Verified tier you earn it by embedding the Smol Launch badge on your site, which we re-check weekly. Premium and the Maker Pass include a permanent, high-authority backlink to your site with no badge to install or verify. Unverified free launches use a nofollow link.

Launch Everywhere is our done-for-you directory distribution service. Choose Lite (30+ directories, $99), Plus (60+, $149) or Pro (100+, $199). Add it to Premium or Premium+ when launching, or buy it on its own for an existing product.