LaunchOnIt MCP Server

Connect your AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT) directly to LaunchOnIt — the weekly launch platform and discovery directory for modern SaaS, developer tools, and AI startups.

With the LaunchOnIt MCP server, agents can search live software listings, monitor trending products on the live weekly leaderboard, inspect historical podium winners, check available launch slots, and autonomously draft startup launches.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Real-Time Startup Search: Search hundreds of launched tools by keyword, problem statement, or tech stack, ordered by community upvotes.
• 🏆 Live Weekly Leaderboards: Query live rankings for the ongoing launch cohort (resets Sunday 23:59 UTC) or query past ISO weeks.
• 🥇 Hall of Fame Podium: Retrieve the top 3 weekly winners and trending startups from recent launch cycles.
• 📅 Launch Calendar & Slots: Inspect free launch slots in upcoming weekly cohorts along with launch plans and pricing.
• 🚀 Autonomous Product Submission (Human-in-the-Loop): Provide a website URL to draft a complete startup listing. LaunchOnIt automatically scrapes the site, drafts title, tagline, description, and categories, and returns a private review link for the founder to inspect before publishing.

🛠 Available Tools

1. search_products

Keyword search across launched products on LaunchOnIt. Matches name, tagline, and description, ranked by community upvotes.

• Parameters:
  • query (string, required): Keywords (e.g. "email marketing", "postgres ui").
  • limit (integer, optional, default: 10, max: 25): Number of results.
• Example Prompt: "Find me top-voted developer tools launched on LaunchOnIt related to database backups."

2. get_weekly_leaderboard

Returns ranked products for an ISO week based on community upvotes. Defaults to the live running week.

• Parameters:
  • week (string, optional): ISO week format YYYY-Www (e.g. "2026-W39"). Omit to fetch the live active cohort.
  • limit (integer, optional, default: 20, max: 50): Number of products to retrieve.
• Example Prompt: "What are the top 5 trending products on LaunchOnIt this week?"

3. get_product

Detailed breakdown of a specific startup listing, including tagline, problem solved, target audience, pricing model, tech stack, social links, and upvote counts.

• Parameters:
  • slug (string, required): The product slug from launchon.it/products/{slug}.
• Example Prompt: "Can you get details on the startup ricracroe from LaunchOnIt?"

4. get_winners

Retrieve the top 3 podium finishers from recent weeks (the Hall of Fame on /winners).

• Parameters:
  • weeks (integer, optional, default: 4, max: 26): Number of previous cohorts to fetch.
• Example Prompt: "Show me the #1 product winners from the last 4 weeks on LaunchOnIt."

5. get_launch_calendar

Check remaining free launch spots for the live week and future cohorts, plus details on Free, Launch ($19), and Growth ($39) tiers.

• Parameters:
  • weeks (integer, optional, default: 4, max: 12): Number of upcoming weeks to view.
• Example Prompt: "When is the next open free launch slot on LaunchOnIt?"

6. submit_product

Starts a startup launch draft from a product URL. Scrapes metadata, generates a curated listing draft, and returns a private founder review link.

• Parameters:
  • url (string, required): The homepage URL of the product.
  • title (string, optional): Custom product name.
  • tagline (string, optional): Short tagline (10-40 characters).
  • description (string, optional): Startup description.
  • pricing_type (enum, optional): "free", "freemium", "paid", "open-source", or "free-trial".
• Safety: Safe & non-destructive. No listing is published live and no payment is taken. The tool produces a private draft URL where the maker can sign in, review, and confirm publication.

🔒 Security & Privacy

• Read-Only by Default: Product discovery and leaderboard queries are read-only and publicly accessible without authentication.
• Founder Verification Required: submit_product produces a private checkout/review draft link. No product goes live without explicit human founder verification.
• Defenses: Built-in SSRF protection against private network scraping, prompt injection sanitization, and strict IP rate limiting.

⚡ Quickstart & Installation

Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "launchonit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://launchon.it/api/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}