Community platforms in the catalog

Communities are the smallest category here and the least automatable. A launch is attached to a person: your profile, your posting history, the feedback you have given other people. The submission form, where there is one, is the last five percent of the work.

The people who do well are makers who were already around — they post progress, answer questions and know the weekly rhythm. Anyone arriving to drop a link and leave is easy to spot, and in a community that is the whole reputation you get. If you have no presence yet, the honest plan is to spend a few weeks being useful before launching.

What to prepare: a complete personal profile with a claimed username, links to your work, and a project entry with a live URL and a short, plain description. Most communities launch on a fixed weekday, so a slot is something you pick rather than request. Expect no badge requirement and usually no fee; expect instead that the quality of your first reply to feedback matters more than the copy in your submission.

Live means the project shows up in the community’s launch list for that period and on your own profile. Ranking rules are often unpublished, so record the URL and the date, and treat the discussion the launch produces as the actual outcome — comments and first users are the point, not a position in a list.