StartupBase review50 of 100, weak
A free launch for a badge on your site and a wait; $39 once for a date of your choosing and a permanent DR 74+ dofollow link; Outrank from $15.
Reviewed 2026-10-10 by Phillip Paul Inker. Facts re-read 2026-10-10. 5 sources. startupbase.io. Brand searches: 1,000 a month worldwide (Google, read 2026-10-10).
Plans, prices and stated waits are public, and $39 buys a chosen date and a permanent dofollow link. The free route asks the most here: a badge on your homepage, and a queue that ran well past its stated length.
Best for: Founders with $39 to spend once who want a launch day of their choosing and a followed link without putting a badge on their site.
The free launch needs the StartupBase badge on the product's homepage or footer, and in October 2026 the signed-in flow also asked for three upvotes and one comment on other launches; then the queue.
Premium promises a permanent DR 74+ dofollow backlink with no badge; the free launch is the "same permanent listing" with no followed link named. launchdirectories.com records StartupBase as dofollow.
1,000 Google searches a month worldwide for "startupbase" (Keyword Planner, read 2026-10-10).
Free launches are stated at about four to five weeks on the launch page and two to three weeks for verified ones on the blog; a verified free submission approved in October 2026 got a date nine and a half weeks out. Premium can launch tomorrow.
Plans, prices, stated waits and the Outrank amounts are public; the prices of the add-ons and higher tiers appear only at checkout.
New accounts only through Google, LinkedIn or X, since e-mail sign-in is for existing accounts; the launch page puts the listing itself at ten minutes.
Every submission site in the database on one axis, rank 6 of 6. The zones are the grades.
Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches for “startupbase”, read 2026-10-10. Demand, not quality: the rubric ignores it.
- $39 once buys a chosen date and a permanent dofollow link, with no badge
- Plans, base prices and stated waits public
- Outrank: a dofollow card from $15, live at once
- The free launch needs the StartupBase badge on your homepage or footer
- The date given ran well past both stated waits
- No e-mail sign-up for new accounts
- The free launch names no followed link
- Free route
- The StartupBase badge on your homepage or footer, then the queue [2]
- Stated free wait
- About 4-5 weeks on the launch page; 2-3 weeks for verified launches on the blog [1]
- Premium
- $39 once: tomorrow or any date within 30 days [1]
- Link
- Permanent DR 74+ dofollow on paid launches [1]
- Outrank
- Pay what you want from $15, listed at once, DR 74 dofollow [3]
- Audience, as stated
- 60K+ monthly visitors, 16.8K+ newsletter subscribers, 4.3K+ products launched [1]
- Sign-up
- Google, LinkedIn or X for new accounts [1]
- In a public catalog
- Free, dofollow, DR 73 (launchdirectories.com) [5]
| Plan | Price | Unit | Review time | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free listing | Free | with the StartupBase badge on your site | ~4-5 weeks stated | Launch date assigned from the queue | [1] |
| Paid listing | $39 | once, Premium | Tomorrow or any date within 30 days | Chosen date, guaranteed homepage feature, permanent DR 74+ dofollow backlink, no badge | [1] |
| Outrank | from $15 | once, pay what you want | Instant | A card on the Outrank board with a DR 74 dofollow link; the three highest payers hold the homepage | [3] |
| Higher tiers and add-ons | $49 to $499 | once, at checkout | Boost $99 (30 days on the homepage), Ultimate $499; newsletter $49, review article $99, LinkedIn post $149 | [4] |
Free or $39
The launch page sets the two routes side by side. Free, "for patient makers": a public product listing, "StartupBase badge required on your site", a launch date assigned from the queue, "Launches in ~4-5 weeks". Premium, from $39 once: launch tomorrow or on any date within 30 days, a guaranteed homepage feature on launch day, a permanent DR 74+ dofollow backlink, and no badge. Payment goes through Paddle, and nothing recurs.
The badge goes on the product's homepage or footer; StartupBase checks that it is visible and then marks the listing verified. In October 2026 the signed-in flow also asked the founder to upvote three launches and leave one comment before the free launch could join the priority queue.
The wait
StartupBase states the free wait in two places, and the two differ: the launch page says about four to five weeks, the post introducing verified launches says "typical publishing within 2-3 weeks, depending on review volume". The same post adds that "the standard free launch queue can take time because each product still needs review."
A free submission verified with the badge in October 2026 was approved within the hour and scheduled nine and a half weeks out. Its product page was not public before the launch day, so in October the badge on the founder's site led visitors to a "Page Not Found" page.
Outrank
Outrank skips the launch altogether: "Any amount from $15 gets you listed instantly. The more you pay, the higher you rank; the 3 highest payers hold the StartupBase homepage." There is no product page to fill in and no review queue, any website or social profile can take a card, and the card keeps its place on the board permanently. On the read date the board printed $3,428 paid across 107 launches.
The link
The launch page promises "a permanent dofollow backlink from a DR 74+ domain" for every paid launch and "Permanent dofollow link from a DR 74 domain" for Outrank. The free launch is described as the "same permanent listing" without a followed link being named. launchdirectories.com's catalog records StartupBase as dofollow with a Domain Rating of 73.
Questions people ask
Is StartupBase free?
There is a free launch: it needs the StartupBase badge on your homepage or footer and takes a date from the queue, stated at about four to five weeks. Premium is $39 once.
Does a free StartupBase launch get a dofollow link?
The launch page promises the permanent DR 74+ dofollow backlink for paid launches; the free launch is described as the same permanent listing, with no followed link named.
What is Outrank?
A board where any amount from $15, paid once, lists a product or profile at once with a DR 74 dofollow link; the three highest payers hold the homepage.
- The upvote and comment condition, the approval time and the scheduled date come from one signed-in submission and its scheduling e-mail in October 2026, not from public pages.
- The prices of the higher tiers and add-ons were read at checkout on 2026-10-07 and may have changed.
- The Domain Rating figures are StartupBase's own and one catalog's; we did not measure them.
- [1]Launch on StartupBase: pricing and launch questions StartupBase, read 2026-10-10.
“Premium ... Starts at $39 one-time payment ... Launch tomorrow, or any date within 30 days ... Permanent DR 74+ dofollow backlink ... No badge required ... Free ... Same permanent listing. Longer wait. ... StartupBase badge required on your site ... Launches in ~4-5 weeks”
- [2]Introducing Verified Launches on StartupBase (2026-05-25) StartupBase, read 2026-10-10.
“Typical publishing within 2-3 weeks, depending on review volume ... To verify a product, founders add a StartupBase badge to their homepage or footer.”
- [3]Outrank StartupBase, read 2026-10-10.
“Any amount from $15 gets you listed instantly. The more you pay, the higher you rank; the 3 highest payers hold the StartupBase homepage.”
- [4]StartupBase launch checkout, signed in StartupBase, read 2026-10-07.
- [5]StartupBase in launchdirectories.com's catalog launchdirectories.com, read 2026-10-07.
Badge for StartupBase’s own site
Certificate SU-A6B733, valid until 2027-10-10. Every badge links to it, so a reader can check the score is genuine. Eight looks on the badges page.
Shows StartupBase’s current score, 50 of 100, weak. Dark card, for most pages. It links to certificate SU-A6B733, valid until 2027-10-10, and changes by itself when the review does.
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</a>Compared head to head
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The most searched name in this database, and free: no badge, no link back, no fee, a launch day of the maker's choosing. What it gives is attention on one day, not a followed link: the website button is marked ugc.
A simple trade, stated plainly: a free do-follow listing for its badge on your homepage, or a monthly plan that skips the badge and goes live in seconds. The link lasts while the listing does, and few people search for the name.
A large audience that searches by the app it wants to replace, and the most candid rules in this database: the free queue has no date, and $5 buys a review in one or two business days, not an approval. The link to the product is nofollow.
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