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LaunchZone
Launch your product. Find your first fans.
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Launch your product. Find your first fans.
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LaunchZone is the launchpad for digital, creative and SaaS makers who want first real users — not just a launch-day spike. Submit in two minutes, join a fair weekly cohort every Monday (UTC), and compete for upvotes, reviews and leaderboard wins. Post build-in-public updates that stay indexed. Free launches include a dofollow LaunchZone listing link. Discovery keeps going: categories, best-of pages, alternatives and compare. Optional Featured/Pro boosts when you want more reach.
How does the dofollow link work for free launches exactly — is it on the listing page itself or on the actual launch post, and does it stay live after the week ends or only during the active cohort?
@buse1342588
Great question!
The dofollow link lives on your permanent product page on LaunchZone (the "Visit website" link in the sidebar) — not a temporary launch post. Your product page stays up indefinitely, so the link doesn't disappear when your cohort week ends.
One detail for free launches: the link starts as nofollow and becomes dofollow once you've verified your LaunchZone badge on your own site (our little badge-exchange loop). After that it stays dofollow permanently, independent of the weekly cohort — as long as the badge stays live on your site.
Paid launches skip that step and get dofollow right away.
Thank you for your question.
How does the weekly cohort system actually work if you join midweek, and do you lose any visibility compared to folks who submit right at the Monday cutoff?
@zlemkargavogtd
Good question — and the short answer is no, you don't get penalized for submitting midweek. 🙂
Free launches are scheduled into a weekly cohort that always starts on a Monday (00:00 UTC). If you submit on a Wednesday, you're not dropped into the week that's already running — you pick an upcoming Monday, and everyone in that cohort goes live together at the same start line. So someone who submitted Sunday night and someone who submitted the Wednesday before are on identical footing for that week. Ranking is by upvotes + review engagement over the shared 7-day window, so no one starts 3 days behind.
The one exception is paid boosts (Featured/Pro), which publish immediately instead of waiting for a Monday — and even then the featured window counts from your purchase day, not the calendar week-end, so you always get the full advertised run no matter when you buy.
Only real advantage to submitting early: you lock in your preferred week (and can pick a less crowded one).
Thank you for your question.
How does the weekly cohort system actually work if you miss the Monday cutoff, and do past launches still get traction from the categories and best-of pages or is most of the discovery front-loaded into that first week?
@evcenmakbu56049
No "missed it" penalty — free launches always schedule into an upcoming Monday, so if this week's running you just grab the next one and launch fresh with that cohort.
And discovery isn't only front-loaded: your launch week is the big spike, but every product stays live and rankable on its permanent page, the category directory, and the /best guides — ranked by upvotes, trust and relevance all-time, not recency.
The upvotes you earn during launch week are what keep you ranking there for months after. 🙂
How does the Monday UTC cohort timing actually play out for someone in a totally different timezone who wants to engage right when the leaderboard resets?
@cengizkzla7e6h
The reset is a single fixed moment — Monday 00:00 UTC — so it's the same instant everywhere, just a different local time on your clock. Quick conversions:
🇺🇸 US West: Sunday ~4–5 PM · US East: Sunday ~7–8 PM
🇬🇧 London: Mon 12–1 AM · 🇪🇺 Central Europe: Mon 1–2 AM
🇮🇳 India: Mon 5:30 AM · 🇸🇬 SG/CN: Mon 8 AM · 🇯🇵 Japan: Mon 9 AM · 🇦🇺 Sydney: Mon 10–11 AM
Best part: everyone in the cohort hits that reset at the exact same second, so no timezone gets a head start. Convert 00:00 UTC to your local time once, set a reminder, and you'll be there right as the fresh week opens. 🙂
Curious how the weekly cohort actually works in practice. Do upvotes and reviews from outside the cohort still count toward the leaderboard, or is it only the people who land that Monday?
@mahirgkcenrxmi
Good distinction to draw 🙂 The cohort only decides which products compete for that week's ranking — it's the set of products that launched that Monday, ranked against each other.
But the upvotes and reviews themselves can come from anyone — there's no rule that only fellow cohort members or Monday visitors can vote. Your own audience, external visitors, people who find you through search — it all counts toward your total. The cohort sets the field of competitors; the whole world can cast the votes that rank you within it.
love that the dofollow listing ships free on every launch, most platforms gate that behind a paywall. the weekly monday cohort approach is a smart way to keep discovery alive instead of the usual launch-day spike and fade.
@hikmetkoalaxqo
Really appreciate that 🙏 That was exactly the thinking — the dofollow link shouldn't be the paywall, it should be the baseline (free launches earn it once your badge is verified).
And yeah, the "spike and fade" problem is what the weekly cohort + evergreen category/best-of pages are built to solve: your launch week is the spark, but the upvotes you earn keep you ranking long after. Thanks for getting what we're going for!