StartupBase Alternatives: What Your Listing Does After Launch Day
StartupBase gives each product a daily launch and a page that, by its own description, never expires, but its free tier asks for its badge on your site and a queue of about four to five weeks. Alternatives differ in what they keep afterward. SaaSHub, DevHunt, PeerPush and Launching Next hold permanent listings, Uneed and TinyLaunch archive winners, and Post Your Build Ideas, our own free board, has Today, Week and All-time feeds.
What is StartupBase offering beyond a launch day?
Its launch page and About page (read 13 November 2026) pitch a listing that keeps working after the day itself. New launches go live daily at midnight Pacific time. Each product gets a full profile, topic pages, collections and a place in a launch archive and a weekly newsletter, and the About page says product pages never expire. It says it has published products since 2017.
The free tier is a public listing with three catches: the StartupBase badge on your site, a launch date assigned from the queue, and a wait the page puts at roughly four to five weeks. A Premium launch lets you pick a date within 30 days and drops the badge. There is also a pay-what-you-want board called Outrank, where rank follows the total a buyer has paid. That is a purchase, not a result of the launch.
So the interesting question is not who has the best launch day. It is what each site does with your page in month three. That is where the alternatives differ, and where a maker with no time to relaunch should look first.
Which alternatives keep your page, and which let it drift?
Seven sites, with the part of each page that outlasts a launch. Details are from each site’s own pages, read on 13 November 2026.
01 SaaSHub
A software marketplace where listings persist in categories and alternatives lists.
- What stays
- Your listing, in category and alternatives lists
- Upkeep
- Vendors verify the listing every three months
- Launch day
- None
The strongest contrast with StartupBase: no launch day at all, only the long game. Its FAQ says ranking draws on votes and on third-party articles, so a page here can improve slowly as people write about you.
02 DevHunt
A weekly launchpad for developer tools, with a permanent page for every listed tool.
- What stays
- A permanent page, free, with a nofollow link
- Launch
- A paid step that selects your week
- Scope
- Developer tools only
If your product is a tool for programmers, the free permanent page is an easy thing to take now, and the paid launch week can wait until there is something to announce.
03 PeerPush
A discovery platform with permanent listing links and product updates.
- What stays
- A permanent listing link on its paid standard plan
- Updates
- Build-in-public posts keep a product active
- Free route
- A queue that its FAQ says can be long
It talks about visibility beyond launch day and ties your score to activity. That helps a maker who posts updates and costs one who does not.
04 Launching Next
A directory of new startups and side projects, with an archive that has grown since 2013.
- What stays
- Published entries in a directory that counts over 45,000
- Gate
- Editors decide; free to submit
- Newsletter
- A Friday briefing
The newest-startups feed moves fast, so an entry is most visible in its first days. After that it lives in the archive and on search.
05 Uneed
A daily launch board with archives and winner lists.
- What stays
- Daily archives, and weekly, monthly and yearly winner lists
- Free route
- A line of at least 50 days; a score of 10 to stay published
- Relaunch
- A paid option for a product already launched there
What carries over is mostly for the winners. A launch that does not rank leaves a page and little else, which is where a permanent-listing site pulls ahead.
06 TinyLaunch
A ranked launch competition with a launch archive and past winners.
- What stays
- Archive and past launches pages; the badge for top three
- Free route
- A standard queue of unstated length
- Link
- Dofollow when its badge is embedded
Its navigation names a launch archive and past launches. We did not test what the archive page keeps for a product that finished outside the top three.
07 Post your build ideas
Our own free board, with Today, Week and All-time feeds.
- What stays
- The launch page, and its place in the All-time feed by votes
- Change it later
- No; final once published, with corrections by email to support
- Main limit
- New and small; no archive history to speak of
We run it. A launch here is a page that persists and a place on the feeds that depends on verification and recency. We make no promise about how many people will see it a month later. Add your launch to the board and write the description so it stays true, because a published launch is final.
What remains of a listing after the first week?
| Site | After the launch | Upkeep asked of you |
|---|---|---|
| StartupBase | Permanent page, topics, collections, archive | Badge on the free tier |
| SaaSHub | Category and alternatives lists | Quarterly verification |
| DevHunt | Permanent page with a nofollow link, free | None stated |
| PeerPush | Permanent listing link on a paid plan; activity-based score | Posting updates |
| Launching Next | Entry in a directory of 45,000-plus | None stated |
| Uneed | Archives and winner lists | None stated |
| TinyLaunch | Archive and past launches | Badge for the dofollow link |
| Post your build ideas | Page and All-time ranking | Final once published |
How do you keep a permanent listing worth finding?
- Put a current price and a one-sentence job description at the top; people skim listings from months ago.
- Update the description when the product changes, instead of launching again each time.
- Tag the link from each site with its own source, so you can see which listings still send visitors, using the UTM tagging checklist.
- Drop badges from sites that stop operating, and keep the ones that send traffic.
Permanent does not mean forever visible. It means the page can be found if someone looks. How long a launch keeps working is covered in how long a launch lasts, the free startup directories list has more sites with permanent pages, and the ideas board is open if you want to see what other builders are shipping.
Frequently asked questions
Is StartupBase free?
It has a free tier. Its launch page describes a public listing with its badge required on your site and a launch date assigned from a queue, with a stated wait of about four to five weeks. Premium launches let you pick a date within 30 days. Check its pricing for current terms.
Does a StartupBase listing really never expire?
Its About page says product pages never expire and stay connected to topics, collections, archives and the weekly newsletter. We cannot test that over years. Treat it as the site’s stated policy, and keep your own copy of the details in case the directory ever closes.
What is the best StartupBase alternative without a queue?
Post Your Build Ideas, which is ours, has no queue, and SaaSHub has no launch day. DevHunt gives a free permanent page for developer tools. None promises visitors, so judge them by what they send you rather than by how long a page lasts.
What is Outrank on StartupBase?
Per its launch page, it is a pay-what-you-want board where any website can take a place without a product page or review, and rank is the total you have paid. It is a paid placement separate from the free launch route, so it does not reflect a launch result.
Post your build ideas publishes this page and runs a free launch board that competes with some of the sites it names. Facts about other sites came from their own pages on the date shown above; terms, queues and prices change, so confirm on their sites before you decide. About the publisher.