Launch platform · checked 10 October 2026
Developer tools, launched in weekly batches and voted by developers
DevHunt has a free route, and paid plans from $19 one-time. The listing we checked marked its link to the product nofollow.
Listing is free; free tools get a launch week assigned from the launch queue; links on free listings are nofollow.
$19 one-time — Paid launch
Marked nofollow — search engines are asked not to pass ranking credit. DevHunt says it depends on the plan.
What we read: https://devhunt.org/tool/pdfly - 'Visit website' rel='nofollow noopener'; https://devhunt.org/tool/astracode - 'Visit website' rel='noopener' only (FAQ: free listings nofollow, paid launches permanent dofollow)
150K page views per month, 40,000 newsletter subscribers, 41,632 developers signed up, 7,136 tools launched, domain rating 65 per Ahrefs (DevHunt /advertise) Their figures, not ours.
Not in the Tranco top-1M list of 9 October 2026 — a small site by traffic.
| Plan | Price | Stated wait | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paid launch | $19 one-time | maker picks the launch week | choose any launch week; spot in the weekly newsletter; permanent dofollow link |
| Boosted launch | $49 one-time | maker picks the launch week | listed above $19 and free launches on equal votes, on the site and in the weekly email; own post on X |
| Home page strip ad | $149 a week | — | strip placement shown on the home page |
| Home page inline ad | $89 a week | — | inline slot in the weekly launch list |
Each tool gets a permanent page and a weekly launch with developer votes, a newsletter mention for winners and a winner badge. Suits developer-facing products, including AI coding, agent and MCP tools; non-developer products are not accepted.
DevHunt has a free route, and paid plans from $19 one-time. The cheapest paid listing is Paid launch. Other paid options: Boosted launch at $49 one-time; Home page strip ad at $149 a week; Home page inline ad at $89 a week.
Yes, with conditions. Listing is free; free tools get a launch week assigned from the launch queue; links on free listings are nofollow.
Free route: launch week assigned from the queue (length not stated). Paid launch: maker picks the launch week. Boosted launch: maker picks the launch week.
DevHunt says it depends on the plan. The listing we checked marked its link to the product nofollow.
Account required (sign-in). Tool must be for developers (open source, APIs, SDKs, CLIs, DevOps, AI agents and MCP servers and similar). No NSFW tools or services that sell fake engagement. Voters must sign in with GitHub or Google.
Read on 10 October 2026. Every fact above comes from DevHunt's own pages.
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