Launch your tool
Every tool gets one launch week and competes on the same board. What you pay for is when you go live and how visible you are around it, never the votes themselves.
If you submit today, here is when you go live
Queue length- Free 1 to 2 weeks
- Free with badge Next Monday
- Starter Next Monday
- Featured Next Monday
Queue length is an estimate based on current submissions. Paid tiers are placement only. Ranking is decided by votes, and we never adjust a counter.
Launch tiers
Paid once, per tool. No subscription.
Free
$0 No card needed
Join the queue, or wear our badge and skip it.
- Permanent listing once live
- Competes in a full launch week
- 1 to 2 week queue
- Add the Tailkits badge to your site to launch next Monday instead
Starter
$15 One time
Skip the queue with no strings attached.
- Everything in Free
- Launches next Monday, no badge required
- Pick your launch week up to 6 weeks out
- Maker dashboard with vote history
Featured
Most picked$39 One time
Launch week plus two weeks of placement after it.
- Everything in Starter
- 14 days featured on the homepage
- Hot marker on your row for 14 days
- Pinned to the top of your category
- Mention in the weekly newsletter
Ongoing placement
Monthly, not tied to a launch weekThese buy visibility around the board, never a position on it. Every placement carries the same Sponsored label wherever it appears.
Sponsor
$99 per month, cancel anytime
One surface, always the same one.
- Inline card inside the leaderboard, never given a rank
- Block in the weekly newsletter
- Cancel any time
Partner
$199 per month, cancel anytime
Every surface on the site, for as long as you keep it.
- Homepage rail, directly above the leaderboard
- Banner across the top of every category page
- Sidebar card on every tool detail page
- Block in the weekly newsletter
- Priority placement on search and tag pages
Partners share the rail in rotation. Two or three cards show per page and the order is shuffled on every visit, so no spot is permanently buried and no page turns into an ad block.
Ask about PartnerWhat a partner card looks like
5 sold, 3 shown per pageNorthwind
SponsoredManaged Postgres with branching, built for review apps
Foundry
SponsoredShip design tokens from Figma to code in one command
This slot is open
Reach developers browsing this week's launches.
Same layout in every slot, including the unsold one. We do not disguise paid cards as organic results and a sponsored row never receives a rank number.
Questions this raises
- Can I pay for votes or a better rank?
- No. Paid tiers change when you launch and where you appear around the board. The counter only moves when a person votes.
- What is the badge?
- A small Tailkits mark you add to your site. It skips the free queue because it sends people back to us, which is the trade.
- Can I launch the same tool twice?
- No. One launch per tool, one week of competition. Major rewrites are handled case by case.
- Do refunds exist?
- Before your launch week starts, yes, in full. Once you are live the placement has been delivered.
- How many sponsors show at once?
- Two or three cards per surface, drawn from 5 partner spots and reshuffled each visit. We cap it there so the placement keeps working.
- Does a partner card outrank a real tool?
- Never. Partner cards sit outside the board, carry no rank number and are excluded from every sort. The list underneath is untouched.