About
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Most launch platforms optimise for one loud day. A product goes up, a few hundred people vote, and then it is buried under whatever launched the next morning. That is a fine game if you have a launch team. It is a terrible one if you are a person who shipped something on a Sunday.
Buildmates is built the other way around. Products stay findable. Ranking decays slowly. The newsletter goes to people who asked to hear about small software, and it goes out whether or not anyone paid.
How it works
Anyone can publish a product for free, and it goes live the moment it is submitted. There is no review queue and nothing to wait for. Once it is live it sits in the directory, the launch feed and the category it belongs to, permanently. Anything that turns out to be spam gets removed afterwards — we would rather clean up occasionally than make everyone wait.
Ranking is upvotes, notes and views, decayed by age. Featured placement is bought, and it never touches the ranking — a featured product that nobody clicks still falls down the trending board.
How it pays for itself
Featured placement costs $150, once, per product. That buys homepage placement for a week, a badge, priority position in the launch feed and a guaranteed slot in Friday's newsletter. There are three slots a week, first come first served. Beyond that there is a newsletter sponsor slot, a partner slot per category, three site-wide board partners and a launch boost — all priced low while the audience is small. There is no advertising network, no sponsored section mixed into the rankings, and no data sold to anyone.
What we will not do
- Sell the ranking. Featured placement is a position on the page, not a position in the list.
- Email you more than once a week.
- Add a feed algorithm that decides what you want to see.
- Delete a listing because the product stopped being new.
- Put a submission in a queue and make you wait for a human to approve it.
Get in touch
Write to hey@buildmates.dev. If you built something, put it on the board — it takes about two minutes.