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LaunchBuff
A fortnightly product tournament where 32 products compete in a community-voted bracket for credibility, backlinks, and lasting visibility
A fortnightly 32-product tournament where indie hackers and SaaS founders compete in community-voted brackets over 14 days to earn permanent listings
LaunchBuff is a product tournament platform designed for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and SaaS founders. Instead of traditional 24-hour launch feeds, LaunchBuff runs fortnightly brackets with 32 products competing over 14 days in five rounds of community-voted matchups. Every entrant receives a permanent listing page, and the tournament format ensures products get sustained attention rather than disappearing after one day. Voters must sign in, visit both competing products, and make a real choice—no anonymous voting or spam dynamics. Winners earn an embeddable community-voted badge, featured placement on the leaderboard, and a permanent listing page. All entrants retain their listings and accumulated search traffic regardless of tournament outcome. The platform emphasizes lasting credibility through permanent dofollow backlinks and genuine community signal rather than vanity metrics.
Features on record
- 32-product bracket tournaments every two weeks
- Permanent product listing pages
- Community-voted winner badges (embeddable)
- Dofollow backlinks from DR74 domain
- Signed-in voter requirement with product visit verification
- Product category pages and leaderboards
- Homepage spotlight (7-14 days depending on tier)
- Featured tag on product listings
- SEO-optimised review pages indexed on Google
- Live Ahrefs DR badge showing domain rating
Pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Free: permanent listing page with nofollow backlink. Premium ($19 one-time): guaranteed tournament slot, permanent dofollow backlink, featured tag, 7-day homepage spotlight. SEO Growth ($39 one-time): guaranteed slot, 3 permanent dofollow backlinks, SEO-optimised review page, 14-day homepage spotlig
LaunchBuff: the metrics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Domain Rating | 74 no change since last check |
| Trust Flow | 19 no change since last check |
| Citation Flow | 43 no change since last check |
| Referring domains | 929 no change since last check |
| External backlinks | 308,062 no change since last check |
Ahrefs Domain Rating recorded 29 Oct 2026, entry changed 25 Oct 2026. Recorded topic: Computers/Data Formats (18). Majestic recorded 25 Oct 2026, entry changed 25 Oct 2026. Link data on record from Majestic. Trust Flow, Citation Flow and Topical Trust Flow are trademarks of Majestic-12 Ltd.
LaunchBuff: domain on record
Read what the registry says
| Domain age | 6 months |
|---|---|
| Registered | |
| Expires | |
| Registrar | NameCheap, Inc. |
| DNSSEC | Not signed |
LaunchBuff: since launch
What we have measured for LaunchBuff since it went live on The Launch Directory on 25 October 2026.
- 74 Domain Rating (Ahrefs) no change since launch
at launch: 74 (25 Oct 2026); latest: 29 Oct 2026 - 929 Referring domains (Majestic)
first measured 25 Oct 2026
Day 4 since launch. Next receipt: day 30, 24 Nov 2026. A change here is a reading, not a claim about its cause; lots of things move these figures. Anything we do not measure is not shown.
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Questions answered
- How does the tournament bracket work?
- Each tournament has 32 products competing in 5 rounds — Round of 32, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and the Final — over a 14-day cycle. Winners advance through each round, with one champion emerging at the end.
- How is voting done on LaunchBuff?
- Voters sign in with their email or Google account and must visit both products in a matchup before casting their vote. One vote per matchup per account is allowed.
- What does the tournament winner receive?
- The champion earns a community-voted winner badge that is embeddable on their site, featured placement on the LaunchBuff leaderboard, and prominent placement on their listing page.
- Do products that don't win keep any benefits?
- Yes. Every entrant keeps their permanent listing page and the exposure from the tournament. The listing stays live regardless of tournament outcome.
- Can I submit a product that is still in beta?
- Yes, as long as you have a working URL that visitors can land on. Early-stage products are welcome and the community votes based on usefulness, not on polish.
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