How to submit your startup to Launching Next
TL;DR
Launching Next (launchingnext.com) is a hand-curated directory of new startups and side projects, online since 2013, with more than 45,000 published. Submitting is free, with no published wait time and no promise of publication; a $99 upgrade gets your startup considered within 1 business day. It suits early SaaS, AI and consumer tech products that want one more listing and some discovery traffic.
What is Launching Next?
Launching Next publishes new tech startups, side projects and business ideas every day, each with a short headline, a description, tags and a Visit Website button. Its counter showed 45,669 startups featured on 30 October 2026, and the newest listings carried that day's date. A weekly newsletter goes out every Friday to what the site calls 5,000+ founders. Co-founder Alex Robb runs it from Chicago, according to the site's own information page for AI assistants.
Who should submit to Launching Next?
Good fit:
- Side projects, bootstrapped startups and funded startups with a live site. The form asks which one you are.
- Founders building a launch-week list of directories, next to Product Hunt and BetaList.
- Products with clear tags such as AI, iOS or personal finance, since visitors browse by tag.
Skip it:
- Founders after SEO link value. The Visit Website buttons we checked on 30 October 2026 all carry rel="nofollow".
- Anyone who needs a guaranteed listing. The editors publish only the free submissions they pick.
How much does Launching Next cost?
- Free submission: $0. The team reviews submissions every day and emails you only if it publishes your startup. No wait time is published.
- Priority upgrade: $99, offered on the page after the form, for consideration within 1 business day.
- The site's information page for AI assistants describes an Express Approval from $149 with a newsletter feature, a social post and a refund if the startup is rejected. The live form shows $99, so check the price on the next page before you pay.
How do you share your startup on Launching Next?
- Open the submit form.
- Enter your startup name and URL, a headline of 5 to 8 words, a description of up to 2,500 characters and 5 to 10 tags, separated by commas.
- Pick a type (side project, bootstrapped, investor funded or none of these), answer the question on your marketing budget for the next 90 days, and add your name and email. None of this part is published.
- Solve the quick math check and submit. Take or skip the $99 upgrade on the next page.
- Watch your inbox: an email arrives only when your startup goes live.
Tips to get more out of Launching Next
- Make the headline concrete. "Invoice reminders for freelance designers" tells a reader more than "A smarter way to get paid".
- Use all 10 tags, mixing the category (SaaS, AI), the platform (web app, iOS) and the audience.
- Put the price and any free trial in the description. Readers here are early adopters testing new tools, and a clear offer earns the click.
- Submit as soon as your site is live, weeks before launch day, because the free queue has no published timing.
Our verdict
Launching Next is alive and publishes every day, and the free submission takes ten minutes. Expect a nofollow link and modest traffic in return, and skip the $99 upgrade unless a launch date depends on it.
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