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Launch on the weekly board and get a permanent, structured page with a real dofollow backlink. It is the kind of source ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini actually quote.
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How do I get my product cited by ChatGPT?
List it on CiteLaunch1. Every listing is a permanent, structured page with a dofollow backlink that answer engines can cite.
See how AI picks its answers
Ask any AI assistant what it recommends in your category. Notice what it names, and the source it quotes. That spot, the page it pulls the answer from, is what a CiteLaunch listing is built to become.
Is your page ready to be that answer?
Paste your URL and get a free citability score: how easy your page is for an answer engine to read, quote, and recommend, plus the answer AI would give about you today and the first fixes to make. No account needed.
See exactly where you beat the competition
One scan lines your listing up against the real products it competes with, attribute by attribute, and calls each row honestly: where you lead, where it is even, and where a rival is genuinely ahead. It is the same market read an answer engine makes when it decides who to recommend, laid out so you can act on it.
- Names the real competitors in your category, drawn from what the model already knows. No fake products, ever.
- A side-by-side table on price, features, audience and positioning, with a per-row verdict you can trust when it says a rival wins.
- Reads only your listing, so tightening your page changes the comparison. Re-run after an edit is free when nothing changed.
One platform, from launch to citation
A launch sends a spike of traffic that fades by Friday. Every piece below is here to turn that one launch into an asset that keeps pulling in ranking and AI citations.
Weekly Launchpad
A fresh leaderboard every week, ranked by upvotes and comments from makers who actually try your product. The live week is the one that counts.
Launch this weekA page built to be quoted
Every listing becomes a server-rendered page with JSON-LD structured data and a real dofollow backlink. The kind of source ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini pull into an answer.
See answers we powerDirectory submissions, by hand
We submit your product to startup and SaaS directories one form at a time, no bots. Watch each listing go from sent to live with its URL, and we re-check the links so a dropped backlink gets flagged.
Browse the directory listAEO Refiner
Score how easy your listing is for an answer engine to read, quote, and recommend. Four pillars, a running history, and concrete fixes for your answers, FAQs, and crawler access.
Run the analysisSEO for the site you own
The Refiner works on your listing. This works on your website: a technical audit of what a crawler actually gets in one response, plus where you are missing from pages about your category.
Audit your siteA content engine around your listing
Ask the board a question and the answer becomes a public page at /q. Side-by-side /compare pages, a maker opportunity board, and the full directory list, all crawlable and linked back to you.
See the comparisonsProof it is working
Page views, vote milestones that mint a permanent credential, and your citability score tracked over time. The dashboard tells you whether a launch is still doing work months later.
See the dashboardAI auto-fill from a URL
Paste your link and the submission form fills itself in: name, tagline, description, category, and tags. Edit what you want to change, then publish.
Start a listingA profile that collects your work
Every maker gets a permanent page at /u linking each product they have launched. One crawlable place that ties your name to everything you ship, and links back to your site from all of it.
Claim your profileAnd the rest of it
Smaller pieces that all do the same job: another crawlable page, another link back to you.
The Featured badge loop
Embed the “Featured on CiteLaunch” badge on your site. It compounds our authority and the value of your link.
Ask AI on any listing
Visitors get answers drawn from the product's own website when the listing alone does not cover it.
Launchpad sponsorship
Put your product in the board's right rail, sold by the day, in front of founders launching this week.
Guides that rank
Long-form pieces on directories, backlinks, and AI citations, each one another page that links back to the board.
AI credits every month
Paid plans include a monthly allowance for the Refiner, prefill, and Ask AI. Public visitors always ask for free.
An llms.txt index of the site
A plain-text map of every product, question, and comparison we host, written for the crawlers that build AI answers.
Where we submit you
270 live directories, each one checked by hand for whether it still exists and whether its link is dofollow. 196 of them sit at DR 60 or above. We fill in every form for you and send back a report of what went live.
Chrome Web StoreDR 99
Google Business ProfileDR 99
Awesome ListsDR 97
r/alphaandbetausersDR 95
BehanceDR 94
TrustpilotDR 94
UnsplashDR 94
Yelp for BusinessDR 94
Better Business BureauDR 93
DribbbleDR 93
Microsoft AppSourceDR 93
SourceForgeDR 93
TripAdvisorDR 93
Fast CompanyDR 92
Gartner Peer InsightsDR 92
Notion Template GalleryDR 92
QuoraDR 92
Slack App DirectoryDR 92
- and 252 more
Three steps to a durable launch
Most directories give you a spike of traffic that fades. We give you an asset that compounds.
Paste your URL
Drop a link and AI auto-fills your name, tagline, and description. Edit, then publish in a few minutes.
Launch on the weekly board
Your product joins this week's leaderboard. Collect upvotes and comments from makers who get it.
Compound it
A permanent AI-readable page, a real backlink, hand-done directory submissions, and the tools to see it working.
About 58 hours across a month, or $19
None of this is hard. It is just long, and it is the part of a launch that gets skipped. Here is the honest version of the job for a 40 directory run, at a freelance rate of $50 an hour. The hours are our own estimates, not a survey. They land across roughly 4 weeks in practice, because most directories sit in a review queue for days before they answer.
- Finding directories that are still aliveWorking down a much longer list to check each one loads, still accepts submissions, and is dofollow8h
- Making an account on every oneSign up, confirm the email, reset the password you already forgot, repeat 40 times5h
- Writing the copy each form wantsA 60, 160 and 300 character version of your pitch, plus tags and a category, per site10h
- Cutting the assets to each site's sizesSquare logo, wide banner, screenshots, all at whatever dimensions that particular form demands4h
- Filling in 40 submission formsEvery form is laid out differently, and the slow ones are slow in their own way14h
- Chasing the ones that bounceRejections, silent queues, and follow-up emails to a support address that may not answer6h
- Building a page worth citingServer-rendered, structured data, answers written to be quoted6h
- Checking the links actually went liveDirectories drop listings quietly, so this is a recurring job5h
- Doing it yourselfSpread over about 4 weeks of review queues58h, about $2,900
One payment, no subscription. We do the submissions by hand, build the page, and re-check the links. You paste a URL and approve the draft.
Start freeList unlimited products free, each with its own page. Launch one on the board. No card.
Why not just use the alternatives
A launch, a pile of directory listings, and a paid submission service each do one part of this. CiteLaunch is the whole thing, built so every part feeds an AI citation.
| What you get | CiteLaunch | Product Hunt | Launch directories | Submission services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent page built for AI answer engines (JSON-LD, no JS) | ||||
| Real dofollow backlink to your site | Some | Some | ||
| Weekly ranked board, not a single launch-day spike | ||||
| Directory submissions done by hand, tracked to live | ||||
| Backlinks re-checked, dropped links flagged | Rare | |||
| Citability score with concrete fixes (AEO Refiner) | ||||
| Technical SEO audit of the site you own | ||||
| Public Q&A and comparison pages that link back to you | ||||
| Free tier, then a one-time price with no subscription | Free only | Varies | Mostly subscription |
Comparing a launch specifically? Read our sourced, plain-English CiteLaunch vs Product Hunt guide.
One plan, everything in it
Your launch, the directory submissions we do by hand, and the tools that tell you whether it is working. Pay once, no subscription.
Join now as an early member
Early members get the biggest benefits and the heaviest discount we will ever run. Lock in a founding price now, keep every feature we add later at no extra cost, and get your product in front of AI answer engines before everyone else. This pricing goes up once we leave beta.
Free
List as many products as you like, and launch one for free.
- Unlimited products in the Supply catalog, each with its own page
- A permanent page with structured data and a dofollow backlink
- One launch on the weekly Launchpad board
Pro
Your category covered, and the full toolset to go with it.
Everything in Free, plus
- Launch up to 5 products on the Launchpad board
- Up to 50 directories, on-topic ones first
- A featured launch that skips the weekly cap
- The full AEO Refiner and the SEO tools
- 200 AI credits a month for the refiner and prefill
- Each backlink checked once the listing goes live
Max
Everything in Pro, plus a year of keeping it working.
Everything in Pro, plus
- Launch up to 50 products on the Launchpad board
- Every available directory, including paid and high-authority ones
- Listing fees covered where a directory charges
- 1000 AI credits a month for the refiner and prefill
- 10 featured launches instead of one
- We chase listings that stall in moderation
- Re-verified every quarter for 12 months, so a dropped link gets flagged
- Free re-runs for 12 months as we add directories in your category
Two things sit outside the plans because they are consumption rather than capability: Launchpad right-rail sponsorship, sold by the day, and AI credits, which every account gets a monthly allowance of.
Compare the plans in fullAEO without the busywork: the short path to getting cited by AI
Skip the schema audits, mention-count dashboards, and domain-rating shopping. Five steps that actually move whether an answer engine quotes you.
What you have at the end: A product page that carries something not available elsewhere, answers its buyer questions in liftable sentences, and is measured by referral traffic rather than rank.
Frequently asked questions
Plain answers about launching and getting cited by AI.
Launch once. Get cited for years.
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