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How to launch on Uneed: the free line, the score, the badge
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Uneed is a daily launch board for indie and maker products. You can launch for free by joining a waiting line, or pay to launch sooner. Each day's launches compete on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboards, and the top three earn podium badges. The prices and rules below were read from uneed.best on 28 October 2026.
- Submitting a product does not schedule a launch. You choose a launch option afterwards, in your dashboard.
- The free waiting line reopened in September 2026 with a launch date at least 30 days out, and your score in the line decides whether your link is do-follow.
- Fast-track costs $14.99 and launches about two weeks out. Skip the line costs $39.99, lets you pick the date and gives a do-follow link for life.
- Votes are weighted by each voter's streak multiplier, from x1 to x5, and buying votes means removal and possible bans.
The anatomy of a Uneed launch that works
- A launch option chosenSubmitting only saves the tool. The launch is booked in the dashboard.
- A score that holdsIn the free line, 20 or more for do-follow, and never below 10.
- A consistent pageThe auto-filled fields corrected to match your homepage.
- Clean votesNo bought votes and no batches of new accounts from one network.
What Uneed is
Uneed lists new products at uneed.best/tool/your-product and puts a new launch batch live every day at 12:00 AM PST. Each batch holds 30 to 50 free launches plus every paid one. Products sit in one of six categories: Development, Design, Marketing, Business, Personal life products and Products For Sale. Uneed quotes a Domain Rating of 75 for itself on its homepage, a third-party metric rather than a promise about your listing.
Who actually reads it
Uneed's voters are mostly makers and indie founders, many of whom vote every day to keep a streak going. They try new tools quickly and leave feedback, which suits products for developers, designers and solo builders. The top three of each week are also sent to Uneed's newsletter, which it says reaches 26,000 subscribers.
See Uneed among every surface worth claiming: the directory checklist →How the free line and the score work
The free waiting line gives you a launch date at least 30 days away, and while you wait you build a score. The score decides what the launch earns: at 20 or more your link is do-follow, from 10 to 19 it is nofollow, and below 10 you leave the free line. Free submissions also go through moderation and can be declined. Uneed's launch guide explains what raises the score; read it before you join the line, because the details are Uneed's to change.
How to launch your product properly
Submit and choose a launch option
- Go to uneed.best/submit-a-tool and enter the product name and URL. The form reads your page and fills in what it can.
- Sign up after the form to save the submission, then check every field it filled for you.
- In the dashboard, choose how to launch: the free waiting line, Fast-track ($14.99, about two weeks out, do-follow at a score of 10 or more) or Skip the line ($39.99, your choice of date, do-follow for life).
- A relaunch later costs $15. Uneed Pro, at $99 a year or $12.99 a month, includes one free relaunch a month and a +3 vote multiplier.
- While you wait, you can show the "Launching Soon on Uneed" badge on your site.
Match your own site exactly
- Use the product name and one-liner from your homepage, and correct anything the form guessed.
- Pick the one category that matches how your homepage describes the product.
- Use screenshots of the real product.
The consistency rules
Your Uneed page stays up after launch day, so it is one more public description of your product. Keep the name, one-liner and category the same as on your homepage and your other listings, and update the page when the product changes.
Common mistakes
- Submitting the tool and never choosing a launch option.
- Buying votes. Uneed removes products for it and may ban the accounts involved.
- Rallying a batch of brand-new accounts, or several people on one network, to vote. Uneed flags votes from batches of new accounts or from one IP address.
- Letting your score fall below 10 in the free line, which drops you out of it.
- Keeping an auto-filled description that does not match your homepage.
How to keep the listing alive
On launch day, share the page with people who already use the product and reply to every comment. If you finish in the top three, add the podium badge to your site. After the day, keep the description and screenshots current, and consider a relaunch only when there is something new to show.
A second launch board with a free tier: how to launch on Fazier →Is launching on Uneed free?
Yes, through the waiting line, which gives you a date at least 30 days out. Fast-track ($14.99) and Skip the line ($39.99) are the paid ways to launch sooner, as listed on 28 October 2026.
Is the Uneed link do-follow?
It depends on how you launch. In the free line it is do-follow at a score of 20 or more and nofollow from 10 to 19. Fast-track is do-follow at 10 or more, and Skip the line is do-follow for life.
What time do Uneed launches go live?
A new batch goes live every day at 12:00 AM PST, with 30 to 50 free launches and every paid one.
How are Uneed votes counted?
Each vote is weighted by the voter's streak multiplier, from x1 to x5. Uneed Pro adds a +3 vote multiplier. Buying votes leads to removal and possible bans.
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