Founder.best - Where founders launch, share their stories, and get discovered by a community that gets it

Core Capabilities

Founder.best lets you submit your product once to get a permanent public listing page. All listings are structured to be indexed by leading AI assistants and queryable by AI agents, which increases the chance your product is referenced in AI-generated answers. The platform has 316 total launched products as of its 2026 update.

Available public tools include an MCP server installation guide, a full public API for listing access, and a public llms.txt file for AI crawlers.

Launch Visibility Rules

All new submissions are added to the live launches section. Standard Launch listings stay visible on the homepage for 7 days, while Launch Pro and Pro+ plans keep products featured for 30 days. After the visibility window ends, your product page and its backlink remain permanently accessible in the all-time products catalog.

The community can upvote listed products, and the highest voted entries appear on the weekly winners leaderboard each week.

Pricing & Plans

• Free submissions get a nofollow backlink and basic listing access

• Standard Launch starts at $2.99, includes 7 days of homepage placement, community upvotes, a dofollow backlink, and newsletter inclusion

• Launch Pro and Pro+ tiers add premium badges, priority placement, and longer visibility windows

• Sponsored ad spots are available starting from $19 per month

Target Audience

This platform is built for indie makers, solo founders, micro-SaaS builders, and startup teams that want to launch without competing against large enterprise marketing budgets. It is designed specifically to give smaller products a real chance to stand out on weekly launch cycles.

Additional Resources

The platform publishes a free weekly founder brief email that shares weekly winners, breakout launches, and the tools founders use to ship products. It also hosts a public library of founder stories, launch guides, startup directory alternatives, free tools including a launch checklist and domain rating checker, and public documentation for all developer features.