Top 85 launch sites to launch your startup in 2026

What is in this list

Launch platforms with a launch day, and permanent startup databases.

Launch sites are the one category with a clock on it. A listing is tied to a day, the traffic arrives that day, and the link stays afterwards. Databases like Crunchbase and Wellfound behave the opposite way: no spike, a permanent profile that ranks for the company name.

Both are worth having, and the sequencing matters more than the count — a Product Hunt day spends attention you only get once.

What this page leaves out

Directories with no launch mechanic, and communities where a person has to post.

How this list is built

Merged from eight public datasets plus entries we added by hand, de-duplicated on registrable domain, then loaded one by one: we open each submission page ourselves rather than trusting a source list.

• Launch platforms and permanent startup databases are listed together because founders pick between them, not within them.
• Sites with a queue or a scheduled slot are noted in the eligibility column where we have the detail.
• Paid skip-the-queue upgrades are marked; we flag them for approval rather than buying them.

Using the filters

Search by name or domain, narrow by category, tier and access, and re-sort by Domain Rating, name or when a destination was added. Columns: Domain Rating, link type, price.

How often it is refreshed

Every submission URL is re-probed daily — last check 2026-09-23. Dead pages drop off, recoveries go back on, and Domain Rating is re-read quarterly. The full record is on what changed.

Who this is for

Anyone with a date to plan around, or a company profile to make permanent.

Questions

Domain Rating is Ahrefs data, fetched per domain and refreshed quarterly (licence).