The story behind Launchpad
About Launchpad.
Someone is building the future — you just haven't found them yet. Launchpad exists to change that.
Why we exist
Discovery without gatekeepers
Most great projects die in a tab nobody opens. Launchpad is a launchpad in the literal sense: a place where solo builders, students, open-source maintainers and small teams can put what they made in front of real people. No followers required, no algorithms deciding who gets seen, no invite-only club. You submit, the community decides what rises.
Everything is transparent. Rankings are computed from measurable activity — upvotes, views, and clicks — not from opaque scores. Sponsorship exists, but it is always labelled, and it never changes how the organic directory works.
Three steps
How Launchpad works
Submit your project
Paste your website or GitHub URL — Launchpad detects the source and fetches the name, description, stars, forks, license and a preview image automatically. Upload your own previews, pick a category, and send it for review.
Get approved & discovered
A quick moderation pass keeps spam out. Once approved, your project appears in Explore, is searchable and filterable by category, and can be upvoted, saved, commented on and shared.
Grow your rank
Upvotes on your projects level you up through creator ranks — from Spark to Supernova — and your avatar carries your rank everywhere on Launchpad. The Leaderboard ranks projects by upvotes, views and clicks, updated live.
Everything on board
What you'll find here
Explore & search
Full-text search across names and descriptions, category filters, and sorting by newest, most upvoted, or Featured.
The Leaderboard
Transparent, activity-based rankings — most upvoted, most viewed, most clicked — so anyone can see exactly why a project ranks where it does.
Community chat
A threaded space for builders to ask questions, swap feedback and find collaborators, with editing, replies and soft deletion.
Save for later
Bookmark any project with one click and find everything again in your personal saved list.
Creator profiles
A public profile with your bio, links, projects, published count and total upvotes — shareable at /profile/username.
Global currency support
Prices adapt to your locale with live exchange rates — pick any of 20 currencies and amounts update everywhere.
Sponsorship, done honestly
Featured placements & Homepage auctions
Featured
A fixed-price Featured promotion pins your project to the top of Explore for its duration, clearly badged. When it ends, it ends — your project simply returns to its organic place.
Homepage auctions
The Homepage runs five slots: one organic pick chosen by Launchpad, and paid slots won through open auctions. Bid, win, pay through Razorpay, and your project rotates on the Homepage for three days — always labelled Sponsored.
Payments are handled by Razorpay with server-side signature verification, and every promotion is activated atomically in the database — expiry, auctions and activations run on a schedule, not by luck. Sponsors get visibility; the community keeps an unpaid, unskewed directory.
Under the hood
Built with
Server-rendered pages keep the directory fast and indexable. The database does the heavy lifting — vote counts, view and click tracking, creator ranks and promotion lifecycles are all enforced in Postgres with Row Level Security, so the rules hold even if the UI doesn't.
Built something interesting?
Launchpad is free to join. Put your project where people who love discovering new things will find it.