How it works
Three steps. One winner.
Submit
Add your product in under two minutes. No account required to browse — just a name, tagline, and URL to get in.
Compete
Your product enters a 16-way bracket. The community visits products and votes head-to-head over a 14-day cycle.
Win the Badge
The champion earns a community-voted winner badge, a permanent listing, and a backlink from launchbuff.com.
Why LaunchBuff
Not another launch feed.
Built for builders who want lasting traction, not a 24-hour spike.
Your product gets 14 full days of attention — not 24 hours before it disappears.
On launch feeds, products peak and vanish in a single day. LaunchBuff runs a structured 14-day bracket: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Every round brings a fresh wave of voters who actively chose to be here. Your product is never buried under 200 things launched the same morning.
Every vote comes from a signed-in human who visited both products first.
No anonymous upvote buttons. No "ask your audience to spam the leaderboard" dynamics. Voters sign in, visit both products in a matchup, then pick the one that earns it. The signal is clean — which means the badge means something when you put it on your site.
A permanent listing, a dofollow backlink, and a badge you own — for free.
Launch day traffic is a vanity metric. What stays is a backlink from a ranked domain, a listing page that accumulates search traffic over time, and a winner badge that signals community validation on every pitch deck and landing page you share. LaunchBuff is infrastructure for your product's credibility — not a one-day event.
What you win
More than bragging rights.
Every entrant gets value. Winners get more.
Winner Badge
A community-voted badge you can embed on your site, link in your bio, and share across every platform you pitch on.
Real Backlink
Every product gets a permanent listing page. Install the free badge on your site to unlock a dofollow link from launchbuff.com — tournament winners get featured placement.
Targeted Visibility
Your product in front of solopreneurs, developers, and founders actively looking for tools — not a random feed.
Permanent Listing
Your product lives on LaunchBuff after the tournament ends. Category pages, leaderboards, and search — ongoing distribution.
Leaderboard
Top products right now
- ★1W
- 21W
FAQ
Questions,
answered.
The short version of how LaunchBuff works — listing, the bracket, and the badge.
Get in touch →Is it free to enter?
Yes, completely free. Submit your product and get a permanent listing page from launchbuff.com — regardless of how far you go in the tournament. Your listing starts with a nofollow link; install the free badge on your site to upgrade it to a dofollow backlink.
How does the bracket work?
Each tournament has 16 products. They compete in 4 rounds — Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and the Final — over a 14-day cycle. Winners advance, one champion emerges.
How is voting done?
Sign in with your email or Google account to vote. Visit both products in a matchup, then pick the one that earns it. One vote per matchup per account.
When do tournaments run?
Fortnightly — a new tournament every two weeks. Submit any time and your product queues for the next available bracket. You'll get an email when your spot is confirmed.
What does the winner get?
The champion gets a community-voted winner badge (embeddable on your site), featured placement on the LaunchBuff leaderboard, and prominent placement on the listing page.
What if my product doesn't win?
Every entrant keeps their permanent listing page and the exposure from the tournament. Your listing stays live — and if you have the badge installed, your dofollow backlink stays active too. Losing a bracket doesn't erase any of that.
Can I submit a product that's still in beta?
Yes — as long as you have a working URL visitors can land on. Early-stage products are welcome; the community votes on what they find useful, not on polish.
Can I enter the same product again?
Yes. After your tournament concludes you can re-submit for a future bracket. One active entry at a time per product.
Your product deserves
a fair fight.
Submit your product, enter the next available bracket, and walk away with a backlink, a permanent listing, and — if the community agrees — a badge worth putting on your homepage.
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