THE BOARD

A Peerlist Launchpad alternative where the rank is paid for, not scored

If you are a developer or a designer with a Verified Peerlist profile and a project you can mark complete, launch it there. It costs nothing, the week is read by people who build software, and a top three finish comes with a badge and a place in the newsletter.

If you are a brand rather than a person, or you want a position you can price rather than a score you can only influence, The Board lists you for a dollar, ranks you by what you paid, and counts the traffic with Fathom in the open.

Peerlist Launchpad compared with The Board: to launch, Free against $1
Peerlist LaunchpadThe Board
To launch
Freewith a Verified profile; individuals only
$1once, on the board today
Featured placement
$29a day at the top of the main feed, per the ads page
$1 overwhatever rank 01 has paid
Attention lasts
1 weekMonday to Sunday, then the next week's page
Until outbidand 30 days at the top wins the season
Reach
Its own900,000 page views a month, self-reported
Fathompage views and clicks, in public

The Board is ours, so read this with that in mind. Every listing on it is a paid placement, its position is decided by money and by nothing else, and nothing on it is editorial. The figures for Peerlist Launchpad were read from its own pages on 6 September 2026 and are linked at the foot.

What Peerlist Launchpad is, and what it costs

Peerlist Launchpad is the weekly launch section of Peerlist, a professional network for people who build software. A launch opens every Monday and runs to Sunday, and each week has its own page that stays browsable afterwards. Anyone with a Verified Peerlist profile can launch a project that is marked 100 percent complete, and only individual profiles may do it: company accounts and agencies launching for clients are barred by the rules. Rank is an aggregate the help centre lists but does not weigh, upvotes, comments, views, link visits and overall traction, and for the first two days the order is random so every project gets the same exposure.

Launching is free. No page on the site or in its help centre quotes a fee, and the guides that list it, LaunchList on 13 June 2026 and Smol Launch in August 2026, call it free. The paid product is the ads page (read 6 September 2026), which is not the ranking: a Featured Launch at the top of Scroll, Peerlist's main feed, from $29 a day; a Launchpad Feed slot at $129 a week; a Scroll Banner at $149 a week; a Side Panel Widget at $199 a week; and a bundle of the four ongoing placements at $404 a week. An ad is reviewed first and refunded in full if Peerlist decides not to run it.

The reach figures are Peerlist's own, on the same ads page: 52,000 active users, 785,000 impressions and 900,000 page views a month across the network, and about 80,000 impressions a week on the Launchpad feed. Third parties put the site at roughly 400,000 to 500,000 visits a month, from traffic estimators rather than a counter on the page. What one launch on the Launchpad gets is not published anywhere.

The price of a place, and the price of the top

Two prices matter: what it costs to be on the page at all, and what it costs to be the one everybody sees first. Drawn to scale, with The Board’s top spot read live from the board.

A log scale: every gridline is ten times the last, which is the only way a dollar and a five-figure sum fit on one line. Prices on the left are Peerlist Launchpad’s as read on 6 September 2026; the top spot on The Board is $101 as this page was built and changes as the board does.

Peerlist Launchpad and The Board, side by side

QuestionPeerlist LaunchpadThe Board
To be listedFree, with a Verified Peerlist profile and a project marked complete; individuals only$1, once, for a listing: a logo, a line and a link
What decides your rankAn aggregate of upvotes, comments, views and link visits, random for the first two daysWhat the listing has paid. Nothing else, and nobody decides
A guaranteed top positionNot on the list. A Featured Launch at the top of the main feed is from $29 a day; a Launchpad Feed slot is $129 a week$1 more than whoever holds rank 01 has paid
How long it lastsOne week, Monday to Sunday; the week's page stays up, the top five get a link and the top three a badgeUntil somebody pays more. Hold rank 01 for 30 days and the season is yours: the standings freeze on a permanent page and every amount resets
Reach you can verifyPeerlist's own figures: 52,000 active users and 900,000 page views a month; outside estimates of 400,000 to 500,000 visitsPage views and outbound clicks counted by Fathom on a public dashboard; every listing shows its own impressions and clicks
RefundsNothing to refund on a free launch; an ad is refunded in full if declinedNone. Every payment is final and the terms (dated 25 August 2026) say so
Who you are dealing withPeerlist Inc., Pune, India, with terms last updated 27 November 2024Dustin W. Stout, Bakersfield, California. Stripe, with a public Stripe profile
Best forA developer or designer with a finished side project and a Peerlist profile people already followA brand that wants a standing position it can price, without a profile, a streak or a score

Eight things to know before you pay either

QuestionPeerlist LaunchpadThe Board
Terms with a date on them✓ Last updated 27 November 2024✓ Dated 25 August 2026
A named operator✓ Peerlist Inc., Pune, India✓ Dustin W. Stout, with a city and a Stripe profile
The price of the top spot published✕ Rank is scored; $29 a day buys a feed feature, not rank✓ On the board, live, to the dollar
Reach counted by a third party✕ Its own figures, on the ads page✓ Fathom, on a public dashboard
Position lasts past a day✓ One week, and the week's page stays up✓ Until somebody pays more; seasons end it
A refund path✓ Nothing to refund; an ad is refunded if declined✕ None. Every payment is final
No curator between you and the page✓ No editor; a Verified profile and a capped week✓ None. Money decides, nobody else
On the page for a dollar✓ Free✓ $1, once

How The Board works, for somebody leaving Peerlist Launchpad

There is no Monday. A listing on The Board is a logo, a line and a link, it costs a dollar, and it is on the page the moment the payment clears, at whatever rank a dollar buys on a ladder sorted by what each brand has paid. Nothing is scored: no upvotes, no comments counted, no random first two days, no streak behind the vote. The amount is the rank, every amount is public, and a brand can list without a profile or a person standing in for it.

The week does not end. The position holds until somebody pays more, and rank 01 costs a dollar over whatever the holder has paid. Hold it for thirty days and the season is yours: the standings freeze on a permanent page and every amount resets, with every brand still on the board. What Peerlist reports on its ads page, The Board hands to Fathom, which counts the page views and outbound clicks on a dashboard the site cannot edit, and every listing shows its own impressions and clicks beside the count.

Where Peerlist Launchpad falls short, and where it wins

Falls short
  • It is for people, not brands. Only individual profiles may launch, agencies are barred by name, and the launch hangs off a personal profile whose following feeds the score.
  • The score is an aggregate the help centre lists but does not weigh, and the first two days are random. The prizes go to the top five and the top three; below that, the week is a page in the archive.
  • The reach is Peerlist's own and it is for the whole network. The ads page says 900,000 page views a month; what one launch on the Launchpad gets is not published.
Wins
  • It is free, and the audience is the right one for a developer tool: the ads page puts 58 percent of it in software engineering and another 22 percent in founders and CTOs.
  • A week is longer than a day. Most launch sites give you until midnight; Peerlist gives you until Sunday, and the week's page stays up afterwards.
  • A top three finish comes with a badge, a newsletter feature and a social post, and the top five get a link from the network itself.

Which to pick

Pick Peerlist Launchpad if
  • You are a developer or designer with a Verified Peerlist profile and a project you can mark complete.
  • People will upvote and comment in the first week without being asked, which the rules forbid.
  • The top three badge and the newsletter feature are worth a week's attention to you.
Pick The Board if
  • You are a brand, a company or an agency, which Peerlist's rules do not allow to launch.
  • You want a position you can price today rather than a score settled over a week.
  • You want the traffic counted by somebody who is not selling the placement.

Claim a spot from $1

A listing is a logo, a line and a link. Rank 01 costs $1 more than whoever holds it, every amount on the page is public, and the traffic is on a Fathom dashboard anyone can open.

Questions people ask about a Peerlist Launchpad alternative

Is Peerlist Launchpad free?
Yes. No page on peerlist.io or in its help centre quotes a fee for launching, and the guides that list it call it free. What Peerlist sells is on its ads page, read 6 September 2026: a Featured Launch at the top of its main feed from $29 a day, and weekly banner and widget slots from $99 to $199, none of which is a rank on the Launchpad list.
How does Peerlist Launchpad rank projects?
By an aggregate score the help centre describes as upvotes, comments, views, link visits and overall traction, without saying how each is weighed. For the first two days of the week the order is random, so every project gets the same exposure before the scoring shows. Asking for upvotes is against the rules.
Can a company launch on Peerlist Launchpad?
No. The rules say only individual profiles may launch projects, and SEO and marketing agencies are prohibited by name from launching for clients. A launch needs a Verified Peerlist profile and a project marked 100 percent complete. The Board has no such rule: a listing is a brand, and whoever pays for it holds it.
How long does a launch on Peerlist Launchpad last?
One week, from Monday to Sunday UTC, and the week's page stays browsable afterwards. The top five projects of the week get a link and the top three get a badge, a newsletter feature and a social post. A position on The Board has no week: it holds until somebody pays more.
Is The Board a Peerlist Launchpad alternative?
For being seen by people who watch new brands, yes, and it is a different mechanism. Peerlist scores a week of upvotes, comments and views on a personal profile; The Board is a public leaderboard where every listing is a paid placement, the order is what each listing paid and nothing else, and it is open to a brand as much as to a person.
What does The Board cost compared to Peerlist Launchpad?
Peerlist Launchpad is free to launch on, and its paid feed features start at $29 a day. A listing on The Board is $1, once; taking rank 01 costs $1 more than the holder paid, and every amount on the page is public. Nothing bills again unless you choose to raise.
What happens when somebody outbids me?
Your listing drops one place and stays on the board; what you paid never goes down. You get one mail naming who passed you and what taking the place back costs, and not another until you have made a move of your own. You can raise by any whole-dollar amount or leave it where it is. Waiting is free.
Can other brands damage my listing?
Yes, and it is part of the game. Any brand can buy one of four kinds of sabotage against a listing, which changes how it looks or whether its link works for a few hours, never what it paid or its real rank. It wears off on its own, you can clear it early or buy protection ahead of time, and nobody is told who attacked whom.
Do I get a backlink from The Board?
Not one to buy the listing for. Peerlist gives its top five a link; The Board's outbound links go through a counted redirect, and the badge you can embed carries rel=sponsored, which is what an honest paid placement has to do. Buy the position for the people who see it and click it, both of which are counted and shown.

Sources

Read on 6 September 2026. Prices on these sites move, and a figure here that no longer matches its source is a figure to tell us about: hello@toptheboard.com.

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