Launch platforms compared

Every board scored on the same six criteria, with each figure traced to the page it was read off and the day it was read.

The whole marketEvery figure was read off the company’s own page. The sources are at the foot of this page.

The verdict

There is no best launch board, and any page claiming one is selling something. There are four decisions, and each one picks a different winner. If you want the biggest audience, launch on Product Hunt — it is free and it is the largest. If you need to control the date, Uneed is the only board here that sells it. If you want a link with a stated domain rating, Fazier publishes one. If you want a week rather than a day, Peerlist runs weekly. ShipWall exists for the case none of those cover: a board small enough that a launch is visible, capped at ten a day, frozen at 00:00 UTC so a placing cannot change afterwards, and organised on which AI tool built the thing. Read the table for the figures; the four sentences above are the actual decision.

Submit a launch See the current wait

5 comparedLaunch boards on the same 6 criterialast verified 11 Sep 2026

Product HuntUneedFazierPeerlist LaunchpadShipWallFree to submitYes“Is Product Hunt free? Yes. It's 100% free to use.”No — closed“The free waiting line is closed to new products.” The free option was called Join the line until it closed; the cheapest way onto the board is now Fast-track at $14.99.Yes, with a backlinkThe Basic tier is Free, and its terms include “A backlink to our site is required (on your homepage or footer)”.Not publishedThe Launchpad page states no submission fee and no price of any kind; peerlist.io/advertise returned 404 the same day.Yes“$0 to submit”, stated on the submit form beside a live count of the queue ahead of you and the free slots left.Cheapest paid optionNot publishedThe launch guide names no paid promotion tier, and producthunt.com/advertise returned 404 on the same day.$14.99“Fast-track … Don't want to pick a date? We assign you a slot in about 14 days. $14.99”$29“Lite $39 $29 … Publish now or schedule for later”, listed as a one-time payment.Not published$9“Skip the line $9 … One payment. Your submission is scheduled ahead of the free queue.”What the money buysNot publishedA launch date“Skip the line … Launch a new product and choose your launch date. $29.99”. A relaunch is $15.Placement and a backlinkPremium at $49: “Promoted across Fazier platform for 15 days” and “Guaranteed high-authority backlink (DR 82+)”.Not publishedQueue position“A one-off payment that moves your approved submission to the front of the queue. It takes the next free slot instead of waiting behind everything already booked.”Can money move you upNot publishedNot publishedThe pricing page sells dates, advertising slots and reviews, and says nothing about the ranked list.Yes — paid front-page placementThe Super package is sold as “Pinned on Fazier's Front Page”, “Featured as sponsor on the top of Fazier's homepage for 15 days”.Not publishedNoThe $19 featured tier marks the row and nothing else — its queue priority is the same line of code as the $9 tier's: “Still ranked by votes alone”.Products per dayNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedWeekly, not daily“It's a weekly launchpad for your projects to get early users, and collect feedback from fellow developers and designers!”10, as a hard cap“10 products launch a day and never more, and every published day is here.”When the day turnsPacific Time“12:01 am Pacific Time is the best time to launch for makers that are planning ahead and don't have limitations or other opportunities.”Not publishedNot publishedMondays, 00:00 UTC“Launch opens every Monday from 12:00am to 11:59pm UTC.”00:00 UTC“Votes move the ranking for 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC it freezes and never moves again.”

Every figure in this table was read off that company's own page, and each source URL with the day it was read is at the foot of this page. ShipWall is one of the 5 compared and is the one publishing the table.

“Not published” means that company does not state the figure on the page cited at the foot of this page. It is not a claim that no such figure exists. A company that publishes no limit most likely has none, but most likely is not a fact, and this table prints what was read rather than what was inferred.

Can money move you up. whether a payment changes where a product sits in the ranked list, as distinct from buying an advert beside it

The questions people ask

What is the best launch platform for a new product?

It depends on which of four things you are optimising for, and they point at different boards. Reach: Product Hunt, free, and the largest audience of the five compared here. Control of the launch date: Uneed, at $29.99 to choose your own. A stated do-follow backlink: Fazier, at $49 for a “Guaranteed high-authority backlink (DR 82+)”. A week on the board rather than a day: Peerlist Launchpad, which opens every Monday at 12:00am UTC. Visibility over volume: ShipWall, which caps the board at ten products a day.

Are launch platforms free?

Submitting is free on three of the five compared here, and one of the three attaches a condition. Product Hunt is “100% free to use”. ShipWall is $0 to submit. Fazier's Basic tier is free but its terms include “A backlink to our site is required (on your homepage or footer)”, which makes it a link exchange rather than a free listing. Uneed no longer has a free route at all — its pricing page reads “The free waiting line is closed to new products”, so the cheapest way onto that board is Fast-track at $14.99. Peerlist Launchpad publishes no price of any kind on its Launchpad page.

Does paying for a launch move you up the leaderboard?

On ShipWall, no — the pricing page states “Still ranked by votes alone”, and both paid tiers move a submission through the queue rather than up the board. Fazier does sell position: its Super package is “Pinned on Fazier's Front Page”, featured at the top of the homepage for 15 days. Product Hunt, Uneed and Peerlist do not address the question on the pages cited here, which is not the same as answering no.

How many products can launch on one board in a day?

Only ShipWall publishes a cap: ten a day, and never more, with the overflow scheduled into a later day. Product Hunt, Uneed and Fazier do not state a daily figure on their own pages. Peerlist Launchpad is weekly rather than daily. The number decides whether a launch that places tenth is still on screen, which is a different question from how many people visit.

When you should pick one of these instead of ShipWall

ShipWall is not the right answer to every version of this question, and a comparison page that pretends otherwise is an advert. Each case below is a real one.

Product Hunt. Reach is the only thing you are optimising for. It is free, it is by a wide margin the largest audience of the five, and nothing on this page argues otherwise. If a launch has one shot and the goal is the biggest possible day, this is the board.
Uneed. You want to choose your own launch date and you want a do-follow backlink stated up front. Uneed is the only board of the five that sells the date itself rather than a placement, and its pricing page states the link it gives you — “Do-follow backlink from a 75DR website”.
Fazier. A do-follow link from a high-authority domain is the point of the exercise rather than the launch. Fazier states the number — “Guaranteed high-authority backlink (DR 82+)” — and sells a permanent listing with it, which none of the other four put a figure on.
Peerlist Launchpad. Your audience is developers and designers and you would rather have a week than a day. Peerlist runs a weekly cycle rather than a daily one, so a launch stays on the board far longer than 24 hours, and the top three carry a badge on the maker's own profile afterwards.

Other launch boards compared head to head

What was checked, and when

Every cell above names the page it was read from and the day it was read. A figure earlier than 11 Sep 2026 fails this build rather than rendering, because a wrong figure about a named company renders perfectly.