Frequently asked questions

What can I do in the maker studio?

Verify your email to create a free product showroom, add screenshots, launch offers and demo events, and review campaign reports. Drafts stay private until you submit them and an operator approves publication. Checkout still works without a workspace.

Can I schedule a campaign?

You can schedule an approved showroom and book a seven-day city or category sponsorship for a future UTC start date. A scheduled showroom does not buy a daily leaderboard position. Category sponsorships cost $20 a week.

How do campaign reports work?

Reports show deduplicated showroom views, outbound clicks, offer reveals, calendar saves, and advertiser-reported conversions. A private server key connects conversions to campaign click IDs for up to thirty days. Tagline A/B tests remain inconclusive when the sample is too small. Reported conversions are not independently verified sales.

Can I follow makers and receive new discoveries?

Follow makers and choose categories in For You. Preferences stay in this browser. To receive the weekly showroom digest, separately opt in and choose categories in Studio preferences. Signing in or purchasing never subscribes you automatically.

Can I share a product collection on my website?

Yes. Select up to twelve published showrooms in Studio and submit your collection for review. Approved collections have a public page and an embeddable widget. Product clicks from the widget appear as collection referrals in campaign reports.

How much does a launch cost?

A daily product launch starts at $1. Financial backing determines rank, so $1 does not guarantee a top position. Daily placement ends at midnight UTC; launching late gives you less time on the live board.

Can I advertise for longer than one day?

Yes. Citadel sponsor buildings cost $20 for seven days, and moving sponsor surfaces cost $40 for seven days. Sponsorship is separate from the daily product rankings. The advertising planner shows current inventory and lets you filter by budget.

Can I preview a launch before paying?

Yes. The free launch studio creates a Citadel concept card using your product name, tagline, and category. Download the preview or carry your draft into checkout. A preview does not reserve a rank or guarantee an exact tower appearance.

Are all listings paid for by their makers?

No. Anyone can submit a public product URL, and unpaid editor picks are labeled. A listing does not imply the maker submitted it, paid for it, or endorsed this site.

Are visitors, clicks, or sales guaranteed?

No. Payment buys placement. Traffic and commercial results depend on the audience, offer, timing, and destination. Historical site counters are not a forecast for an individual launch or sponsorship.

What am I actually buying?

A sponsored placement on today's launch board. Your money goes into your listing's total; the biggest total holds #1. It is advertising until midnight UTC with a permanent archive page, not an ongoing subscription or a promise of traffic.

What happens at midnight?

The board resets at 00:00 UTC every day. Final standings freeze on a permanent archive page (/day/that-date), and tomorrow's board starts a new ranking, which may include labeled editor picks. Money paid at 23:59 buys the rest of that day — a day is atomic, nothing carries over.

Can other people pay into my listing?

That's the point. Pay into the same URL on the same day and it adds up. Share the listing link with your team and fans — the share button writes the message for you.

Do I need an account?

No account is required to buy a placement. Enter a URL and pay; your receipt contains the permalink. The optional maker workspace uses email verification for private reports, showrooms, collections, and digest preferences.

Can I launch again?

Yes. Every day is its own board, so the same URL can launch again on a later day — a v2, a big update, a relaunch. It gets a fresh listing and a fresh archive entry, exactly like launching on Product Hunt twice.

Why isn't my listing showing?

Listings on known launch platforms (Product Hunt, GitHub, the app stores, Steam, itch.io) go live the moment payment lands. Everything else is reviewed — usually live within a couple of minutes via our automated check, with unclear cases held for a human. Your payment is already counted either way.

What's the badge?

An SVG you embed on your site. It shows your live rank until midnight, then your final result forever — 'Won #1 — Aug 31, 2026'. The embed code is on your listing page and in the recap email.

Does a listing here help my SEO?

Not directly, and we're honest about that: outbound links from the board are rel=sponsored nofollow, as Google's paid-link policy requires. What you buy is placement and an archive page. You can share a linked badge on your own site, but visitors and search rankings are not guaranteed.

Someone listed my product without asking. Can I remove it?

Yes. Write in via feedback from an address that proves it's yours. Verified owner requests always win. There is no refund to whoever paid, and the removal goes on the public takedowns log.

Refunds?

No. The board resets daily by design, and that is stated at checkout. If a listing is rejected at review the payment is refunded from Stripe by hand; that is the only case.

What can't be listed?

Invite links, adult content, anything aimed at minors, trading signals or promised returns, gambling services, piracy or illegal marketplaces, hate or harassment, fake 'official' claims, and bare waitlists with no product behind them. The rules page spells it out.