Launch catalog / Playbook
DanielLaunches
Conditional free route launch-board
Researched from public pages — no submission was run · sources read 2026-09-25. Rules change — recheck the platform's own pages before submitting.
What the free route requires
- Standard launch is free but requires the DanielLaunches badge active on your site; removing it takes the listing AND both backlinks offline (automatic verification can restore them).
- Standard launches sit in a queue for the daily board — 8 launches per day.
Requirements
- Sign-in required before submitting ('Sign in first, so your launch has an owner').
- Approved launches earn 2 backlinks: one from DanielLaunches (DR 52) and one from VerifiedDR (DR 64).
- Public voting during each launch cycle; category winners get placed inside matching marketing guides.
Prepare before opening the form
- Account / sign-in on daniellaunches.com.
- Product name, tagline, URL, category (Marketing & SEO, Developer Tools, AI, Health & Fitness, Other, etc.).
- Badge embed for the free Standard launch.
- Plan choice: Standard free (badge, standard queue) / Pro $9.99 one-time (no badge, priority featured placement, one of 4 daily featured spots).
Workflow
- Sign in at daniellaunches.com/login, then open /submit ('Submit your launch').
- Fill launch details and choose Standard or Pro.
- Standard: install and keep the badge; pass review; your launch enters the daily board queue.
- On launch day, collect votes; category leaders may be featured inside the site's marketing guides.
Watch for
- Badge is a hard, continuously enforced condition: 'What if I remove the badge? Your free listing and backlinks go offline.'
- Pro upgrades launch day only — after launch day the permanent page/backlinks/stats are identical to Standard.
- The two backlinks come from DanielLaunches + its sister site VerifiedDR — same operator family.
- 8 launches/day cap means standard queue may schedule out; Pro buys one of 4 featured spots.
- Site is transparent about modest traffic (~1.3k visitors/30d displayed live) — calibrate expectations.
What counts as live
The product appears on daniellaunches.com under 'Today's top launches' (or its launch date) with a permanent page and the two live backlinks.
Not verified
- Submit form field list behind login.
- Standard queue wait time in days.
- Whether re-verification timing is immediate after badge removal.