The FrontStat method

Listings: where you got listed

A launch listing is a page on someone else's site that names your product, links to it and describes it in a sentence. In launch week it is the fastest way to exist on the open web in more than one place.

What we measure

FrontStat watches 17 launch sites and directories (Product Hunt, Show HN, BetaList, Uneed, Fazier, Twelve Tools, Microlaunch, Launching Next, StartupBase, dang.ai, FoundrList, ToolPilot, Open Launch, TheSaaSDir, Uno Directory, VibeCodingList, FutureTools) and records every page on them that points at your domain, with the date it appeared. The score counts up to four listings, 6.25 points each.

Four is a cap, not a target. Past four, an extra listing adds little to search and nothing to the score; the remaining points come from links that count, search and AI recommendations.

Why it matters

Search engines find new sites by following links from pages they already crawl; a site nobody links to can take weeks to be discovered. Google's own starter guide puts it plainly: it needs to find your pages before it can rank them, and links from other sites are one way it does.

AI assistants that answer buyer questions with web search read the same pages. A product that appears on several launch sites, each with the same one-line description, is easier for them to identify and describe than one that exists only on its own homepage.

What to do

Submit to the sites you are not on yet, starting with the ones FrontStat marks as counting links (see Links that count). Use the exact product name as it appears in your site's title tag, and one description you keep identical everywhere, so every mention resolves to the same product.

Prefer launch sites whose listing pages are open to search (no noindex) and link with a plain link. A site that only offers a nofollow link still sends visitors, which is worth having, but it does not help the two checks that follow.

Check your own launch. First report within 24 hours.