Introducing LaunchFill: new AI tools, every Monday

Hundreds of AI tools ship every week. Most of them are never seen by the people who would use them: they launch on a busy day, sit on a list that scrolls past in an afternoon, and are gone.

LaunchFill is our answer. It is two things on one site.

A weekly launch board

Every Monday at 00:00 UTC a new batch of AI tools goes live on the home page. For the whole week — not one day — visitors vote, and the board ranks the week's launches by those votes. On Sunday night the board freezes, moves to the archive, and the top three get a winner's badge for their site.

A week is long enough for a maker in any timezone to tell their users, and for a visitor who checks in once a week to see everything. Each week has a limited number of places, so the board stays short enough for every launch on it to be seen.

A directory of the AI tools people use

Every approved tool keeps a permanent page — what it does, who it is for, what it costs — filed under a category, with an alternatives page that lists the most similar tools. Launch week or not, that page stays, and it is the page people find when they search for a tool by name.

For makers

• Launching is free. A free launch takes a week from the free queue, from three weeks out — or one week out, with a dofollow link, once our badge is on your site.
• Submitting takes a minute. Paste your URL and the form fills itself from your homepage; you check and correct it.
• Every submission is reviewed by a person, against published guidelines.
• Paying is optional: a priority launch ($9.90) lets you pick your week, including this one; a sponsor week puts your tool beside the board for seven days.

For everyone else

Come on Monday for the new batch, vote for what you would actually use, and if you would rather get it by email, the Monday digest is one field away on the home page.

Submit your tool or see this week's launches.