LaunchRepoHow to launch on Show HN
The official Show HN rules with what each one means for your post, a quick eligibility check, and our own analysis of 12 months of public Show HN data with a CSV download.
Read guide →Launch planning guides
Practical decisions for agent-assisted launches: qualify opportunities, track states and avoid duplicate submissions.
Product Hunt featuring and relaunch rules explained
Will Product Hunt feature your product, and can you launch again? The official featuring and relaunch rules, quoted and dated, plus a one-minute rule check.
Read guide →Product Hunt launch services: what to pay for and what to skip
Paid hunters, upvote packages, launch agencies: what Product Hunt’s rules allow, a risk table by service type and a quick check for any offer you receive.
Read guide →Plan your launch day and hour across time zones
Product Hunt’s 12:01 am Pacific start in your own time zone, the official timing rules and a weekday-by-hour view of 44,624 Show HN posts.
Read guide →Promote your SaaS on Reddit without breaking the rules
Self-promotion rules of ten SaaS and startup subreddits, Reddit’s spam policy in its own words, a draft check and a sample post that stays within the rules.
Read guide →Build a pre-launch waitlist that turns into first users
Six parts of a waitlist page, a generator for the signup form and four emails, the consent rules and how to invite the list at launch.
Read guide →Plan your SaaS demo video with a real example
Our published demo broken down scene by scene, a scene planner with script and shot-list export, and the video limits of eight platforms.
Read guide →CAPTCHA and 2FA in agent workflows: the controlled handoff
The agent prepares, pauses at the challenge, you complete it in the same tab, the agent resumes. Diagram, demo form and a handoff note you can copy.
Read guide →Product visibility in AI search: index, retrieval, recommendation
Index, retrieval, recommendation: what you control in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Claude and Perplexity, a robots.txt checker for their crawlers and a free way to measure.
Read guide →Your new website is not on Google yet? Check it step by step
How long Google takes to index a new site, a first-week checklist you can tick off and export, and a decoder for every Search Console status.
Read guide →Start LaunchRepo in three steps
Clone the repository, paste one prompt into your coding agent, open the dashboard link. What each step does, what you need installed, and how to do it by hand.
Read guide →Connect your coding agent to your Chrome
Two ways to give your agent a browser you can watch: Chrome DevTools MCP with auto-connect, or a dedicated CDP profile on port 9222 — and the smoke check.
Read guide →Your first session: onboarding led by the agent
The seven phases of the kit’s agent-led onboarding, from product brief to first real submission: what the agent asks and which files it fills so work resumes.
Read guide →The local dashboard: your workspace, as the agent sees it
What the kit’s local dashboard shows — products, onboarding, states, handoffs, follow-ups — how to start it, what it writes and the boundaries it never crosses.
Read guide →Confirm how you are represented before listings go public
The kit’s representation briefing: three concrete examples of how the agent will describe you — bio, launch intro, why-I-built-this — approved before a listing.
Read guide →Set a launch-date floor before anything is scheduled
How earliest_launch_date in product.json works: what the tracker refuses, what it cannot influence, why free directories publish late, and how to pick the date.
Read guide →Recording outcomes: states, evidence and record.py
How the kit’s tracker records what actually happened on a directory: the eleven states, the observation each requires, the record.py flags and the note rules.
Read guide →A launch run from start to finish
One directory batch with the kit, end to end: brief, batch selection, one platform at a time, evidence-based states, resume rules, and a realistic first result.
Read guide →Track directory submissions without double counting
Separate preparation, review, queue, scheduling and publication so the next agent knows whether to resume or verify.
Read guide →Plan directory work with a zero-spend budget
Use eligibility and asset checks to decide where to spend agent time before attempting a submission.
Read guide →The kit these guides describe
LaunchRepo is a private repository your own coding agent runs: 299 directory playbooks, the workspace scripts, the tracker and the local dashboard. Pay once, launch every product you build.
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