Launch Products. Discover What’s Next
LaunchNest is built around a simple idea: great products shouldn’t stay hidden.
We’re creating a place where new products can get discovered, founders can connect with early users, and genuinely interesting ideas can get the attention they deserve.
If you’re building something, discovering something new, or have feedback on how product discovery should work, we’d love to hear from you. 🚀 https://launch-nest-ai.base44.app
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Really like the idea behind LaunchNest. Product discovery can be tough when there are so many new tools and startups launching every day. Having a place where founders can showcase their work and get genuine feedback from early users sounds really useful. 🚀I’m also interested in how different platforms help people discover useful digital tools and apps. I recently came across apk youcine which provides guides and information for Android users, so I can definitely see the value of communities that make discovery easier and more accessible.
Love this idea! Helping great products get discovered is exactly what we need.
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Thank you! Really appreciate the support and the follow. I love what you're building for Bangladeshi businesses too. The goal with LaunchNest is exactly that — helping genuinely useful products get discovered by the right people, not just the biggest audience. Rooting for you too! 🚀
Congrats on the launch! Product discovery can be tough for early-stage builders, so having another dedicated space to get genuine feedback and reach early adopters is huge.
Thank you! Absolutely agree. For early-stage products, getting in front of the right early adopters and receiving meaningful feedback can be far more valuable than simply chasing launch-day numbers. That’s a big part of what we want LaunchNest to support.
As someone who recently listed on a few discovery platforms, this resonates. The pattern I hit is a small spike on launch day, then basically nothing — the backlink is real value, but the returning-user habit just wasn't there. The point about picking one specific non-founder user type is "discover new products" is a hard habit to build when most of the audience is other founders doing the same thing you are. Curious how you're thinking about pulling in non-founders specifically?
This is a really important point. We don't want LaunchNest to become a place where founders submit once and disappear. The bigger goal is to build a discovery habit around relevance — helping non-founders find useful products based on their needs and interests. We're still working on the best way to make that repeat discovery experience genuinely valuable, so this is exactly the kind of feedback we want.
great app!
Thank you so much! Really glad you like it. 🙌
Every product discovery site faces this exact tension. Founders submit all day because a backlink costs nothing, but the non-founder visitor needs a reason to come back.
The discovery platforms that build real retention usually identify one specific non-founder user type: the tech journalist after early product intel, the buyer comparing alternatives, the VC associate tracking category trends. "Discover new products" is too broad to build a habit around.
The question worth focusing on: who is your single best returning non-founder user type, and what are they already doing twice a week that LaunchNest could slot into? That answer shapes curation and outreach more than anything else.
This is a great way to frame the problem. I agree that “discover new products” alone is too broad to create a strong recurring habit. We're thinking about narrowing discovery around specific user needs and interests, so people can return because LaunchNest consistently helps them find something relevant. Your point about identifying one strong non-founder user type is definitely something we're taking seriously.
Every product discovery site I have seen dies on the demand side, not the supply side. Founders will submit all day because it is a free backlink, but almost nobody wakes up wanting to browse a list of new tools, so you end up with a warehouse and no shoppers. What is the reason a non-founder comes back to LaunchNest next Tuesday?
That's probably one of the most important questions for LaunchNest. We don't want the platform to be useful only when someone has a product to submit. The long-term goal is to give non-founders a reason to return because they're consistently discovering relevant products, tools, and solutions for what they're actually looking for. We're still refining that experience, and feedback like this is extremely valuable.
This is a really interesting problem to tackle. Building the product is only half the battle — getting it in front of the right early users is often harder.
Curious: how are you planning to get your first group of founders/users onto LaunchNest?
Great platform! I just launched Alpha Bravo APP— a NATO phonetic alphabet trainer built by a retired pilot. Happy to be here!
Welcome to LaunchNest! 🚀 Alpha Bravo APP sounds like a really interesting product, especially with the retired-pilot background. Thanks for launching it here, and wishing you lots of success!
Looks like a solid platform for discovery! I'm getting ready to launch my own project soon and considering where to list it. What exactly is needed to submit a product to Launch Nest, and what are the main perks or features builders get by being featured?
Thanks! The goal is to keep submitting a product straightforward while giving builders useful discovery and visibility. You can submit your product with the basic product information, description, category, and relevant links. We're also focused on making sure being featured isn't just a one-day spike, but can contribute to ongoing discovery over time. 🚀
Nice tool! I just added my product kinetixseo.com. Lets grow together!
Thank you! Really appreciate you adding KinetixSEO.com. 🙌 Let's definitely grow together, and I hope LaunchNest helps you get some relevant eyes on the product!
Thank you! Really appreciate you adding KinetixSEO.com. 🙌 Let's definitely grow together, and I hope LaunchNest helps you get some relevant eyes on the product!
Product discovery is easy to get wrong because a pure popularity ranking usually means the same products keep winning while new ones disappear. I’d love to see discovery based on interests or problems people are trying to solve rather than only upvotes. Are you experimenting with anything like that?
If you were using LaunchNest, what would you want to see that would make it genuinely different from Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, or other launch platforms?
Absolutely — that’s the direction we want to take. We don’t want LaunchNest to become another popularity leaderboard where the biggest audience always wins.
We’re exploring discovery around freshness, interests, genuine engagement, and the problems users are actually trying to solve. The goal is to give great new products a real chance to surface, even before they have a big audience.
Really appreciate this perspective — it’s exactly the kind of discovery problem we’re trying to solve.
Nice idea 💡!
How do you differentiate with other product boards, e.g. Product Hunt?
What would make you come back to LaunchNest regularly to discover products — personalized recommendations, quality scores, fresh launches, problem-based discovery, real user feedback, or something completely different?
That's amazing
That's a great idea. Keep it up.
If we keep a sponsored/promoted option for founders, what should we combine it with so that smaller but genuinely useful products don’t get buried by bigger companies or paid promotion?
I'd keep sponsored and organic as separate lanes rather than blending them — a fixed number of clearly-labeled sponsored slots that never displace organic ones, so paying adds visibility instead of taking it from someone else.
The other risk is organic ranking itself favoring bigger companies (comment/upvote velocity naturally favors people with existing audiences), so some "new and under-discovered" surfacing separate from "trending" probably matters just as much as the sponsored question.
Were you thinking more about placement/UI, or the ranking logic itself?
I really like this approach. Sponsored and organic discovery should stay clearly separated, and paying for visibility shouldn't mean pushing genuinely relevant products down. We're also interested in making “new and under-discovered” products discoverable alongside trending products. The ranking logic is probably the more important piece for us long term, because that's what ultimately determines whether discovery feels useful or just becomes another popularity contest.
He's flagged ranking logic as the real long-term problem — worth a concrete suggestion since that's genuinely the harder half:
On ranking logic specifically: the trap most "hot" algorithms fall into is compounding early velocity — an item that gets a few upvotes fast keeps getting shown more, which gets it more upvotes, which is really just measuring who got lucky in the first hour rather than actual quality. A time-decay model helps, but it still rewards being seen early.
One thing that's worked elsewhere: weight engagement relative to the view count an item has already received, not absolute numbers. A product with 3 upvotes off 15 views is outperforming one with 20 upvotes off 2,000 views, even though the raw numbers look opposite. That naturally surfaces genuinely resonant-but-undiscovered things without needing a separate "new" section as a crutch — though I'd still keep one, since cold-start items have no ratio yet to rank on.
The failure mode to watch for either way: don't let "new and under-discovered" become a permanent ghetto that never graduates into the main feed even when something in it is clearly working. That's basically recreating the same visibility problem one level down.
Really like the clean interface! The market is pretty crowded with launch platforms right now, so curious what’s your main playbook for actually driving real traffic and early adopters to these listed products?
Love the idea behind this. Product discovery can be surprisingly difficult, especially for early-stage founders who are building great things but struggle to get them in front of the right people. Creating a space that connects new products, founders, and early users feels like a valuable step in the right direction. Excited to see how LaunchNest evolves! 🚀
Great product!
I've just created the page for my product
I hope both our product could reach popularity :-)
Product discovery is still one of the hardest parts of building something, especially before you have an audience.
I like the focus on connecting founders with early users rather than just treating discovery as another popularity contest. Early feedback from the right users is usually much more valuable than a large number of random visitors.
Great concept! 🚀 I really like the idea of helping new products get discovered and giving founders a place to connect with early users.
Worth separating "browsing habit" discovery (Product Hunt's daily-ritual model) from "search-intent" discovery (someone lands because they searched a specific problem and you rank for it). The first needs you to build a reason to open the app with no specific need. The second borrows Google's existing habit instead of building your own, which is a much easier bar to clear with zero audience. Will you be optimising for either of these?
Hello, I Love this idea. Most discovery platforms are all-or-nothing. You are either catching the wave on launch day or you are disappearing. A place where genuinely useful products can keep getting found over time is something the founder community actually needs. I launched BizBoard Pro, a command center dashboard for solopreneurs juggling multiple business ideas at once. It helps them focus on the ideas that have the greatest monetary potential. I would love to get it listed. When does LaunchNest open for submissions?"
The hard part of product discovery isn't listing products, it's that almost every discovery platform ends up being founders showing each other their products. The audience and the supply are the same people, so everyone posts and nobody browses.
I've been running into the shape of this problem from the other side. I'm early on a tool for e-commerce sellers, and the places where I can post are mostly builder communities. The places where my actual users are either ban self-promotion outright or treat it as spam. So the discovery I get is from people who will never buy, and the people who would buy never see it.
If I were building this, the question I'd try to answer is how you get non-founders to show up. Product Hunt solved it once by becoming a habit for people who just like seeing new things. Most clones since then didn't, and I think that's the actual failure mode rather than anything about the listing experience.
Curious what your plan is for the demand side. That seems harder than the supply side, and supply is what everyone optimizes.
Interesting idea. For an early-stage product, what do you think matters more during launch: getting a lot of visibility, or getting a small number of users who give very specific feedback? I’m increasingly thinking the second is more valuable.
I agree with you. For an early-stage product, a small number of highly relevant users who provide specific, actionable feedback can be much more valuable than a large amount of empty visibility. Visibility gets attention, but quality feedback helps you understand what to improve and who the product is really for. That's the kind of discovery and feedback loop we'd like LaunchNest to encourage.
This looks super useful for tracking launches. Bookmarked!
Thanks for building this.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate the bookmark and the support. 🙌 Hope LaunchNest becomes a useful place for you to discover interesting products and launches over time!
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Instead of letting products rise mainly through upvotes or existing audiences, what kind of system would you use to decide which products deserve more visibility?