Launch catalog / Playbook
Startups.com
Conditional free route community
Researched from public pages — no submission was run · sources read 2026-09-26. Rules change — recheck the platform's own pages before submitting.
What the free route requires
- Account creation and a startup profile are free, but the startup profile's public discoverability depends on the Profile Visibility setting (Public/Private/Hidden)
- This is an accelerator/founder community — the value is the program (advisors, courses, investor matching), and much of that is paid membership; the public profile is a side artifact, not a launch listing
Requirements
- Register at startups.com/signup/register (name + email or phone + password, or Google on the accelerator form)
- Startup profile data: company name, industry, team size, funding stage, logo
- Set Profile Visibility to Public for an externally viewable profile URL
Prepare before opening the form
- Founder name, email, password (or phone signup)
- Startup details: name, industry, stage, logo
- Expect onboarding into the accelerator funnel (Requests/roadmap prompts)
Workflow
- Register at https://www.startups.com/signup/register (site rate-limited automated fetches — use a browser)
- Complete the startup profile under /account/startup (name, industry, team size, funding stage, logo)
- Set Personal Profile visibility to Public and copy the unique profile URL
- Optionally explore the community, Requests roadmap, investor matching and workshops (membership tiers apply)
Watch for
- 429 rate-limiting observed on direct fetches — use a browser
- Not a public launch directory — a 'Public' profile URL exists but there is no browsable public launch feed guarantee
- Accelerator upsell: advisor calls, courses, investor matching are the paid product
- Same family as Fundable, Clarity.fm, Bizplan, Launchrock — expect cross-product marketing
What counts as live
The personal/startup profile resolves at its unique startups.com URL with visibility set to Public
Not verified
- Whether public profiles are indexable or render a website link (and follow treatment)
- Free-tier limits on the accelerator/community features
- Whether startup profiles have a public directory page
Sources
- Help — profile visibility settings (Public/Private/Hidden) and the unique public profile URL live under Manage Account > Personal Profile ↗
- Registration page (search-indexed) — name, email or phone, password ↗
- Homepage (search-indexed) — online startup accelerator; 'Requests' roadmap, investor matching, community forums; returned HTTP 429 to direct fetch ↗