Comparison
TinyLaunch vs ShipDR
These are not competing products and this page is not going to pretend they are. If you were about to launch on TinyLaunch, launch on TinyLaunch. The comparison worth having is narrower: TinyLaunch also sells submissions to 110 directories, and that is the one place the two overlap, because submitting and getting listed are not the same event.
What TinyLaunch offers
Straight from their pricing page, read on 29 July 2026. Prices change; check theirs before you spend anything on the strength of ours.
- Standard Launch, free. Live on the homepage for several days, with the badge and the backlink going to top-ranking products.
- Premium Launch, $39 per launch. Skips the queue and advertises a “guaranteed high authority backlink”.
- Submission Service, $279 one-time. Submission to 110 directories, chosen by product category, with a submission report at the end.
- Featured spots, $30 or $15 a week. Paid placement at the top of the page or mid-feed.
The gap a submission service cannot close
The $279 buys submission to 110 directories and a report saying it was done. It delivers exactly that, and a week of filling in 110 forms is a real thing to want back.
What it cannot buy is the listing. Whether a directory publishes you, how long it sits in a moderation queue, whether the link it eventually gives you carries a rel that passes anything, and whether the page carrying it is one Google will read, are all decided by the directory after the form is gone. No service can promise them, and the honest ones do not. That is why the deliverable is a report of submissions rather than a list of links.
The thing worth internalising
A submission is an event you control. A listing is a decision somebody else makes, days or weeks later, and nobody tells you when it goes the other way. The distance between those two is where directory budgets quietly disappear.
What the free queue actually gave us
We have launched our own products on TinyLaunch through the ordinary free queue. Both listings went live, and when our checker read them, the link back to us carried nofollow, on pages that were otherwise perfectly indexable. One of them took three days from submission to appearing.
Read that narrowly, because it is a narrow finding. Two listings, on the free lane only. Their free tier says the badge and backlink go to top-ranking launches, and we were not one, so this is not their $39 Premium lane and says nothing about it: we have never bought Premium and have no reading on what it delivers.
You do not have to take our word for any of it, which is the point. Paste any TinyLaunch listing into our dofollow checker and read the rel yourself. It is free, there is no account, and it works the same on every directory you are considering.
Side by side
| TinyLaunch | ShipDR | |
|---|---|---|
| Lists your product to an audience | Yes, that is the product | No, we list nothing |
| Submits you to other directories | Yes, 110 of them, $279 one-time | No, you submit |
| Tells you whether a submission went live | Not part of it | Fetches the page and reads it |
| Reads whether the link is dofollow | Not part of it | Yes, from the anchor’s rel |
| Checks the page is indexable | Not part of it | noindex and robots.txt, per listing |
| Notices when a link disappears | Not part of it | Daily sweep, tells you what changed |
| Charts your Domain Rating | No | Yes, free, daily |
| What it says about DR | “Increase your Domain Rating” | Nothing. It is Ahrefs’ black box |
Most of that table is not a scoreboard. TinyLaunch is not missing a verification feature any more than we are missing an audience: they are different products, and the only row where we are genuinely making a different choice is the last one.
The one row we would defend
TinyLaunch sells the submission service on raising your Domain Rating. We will not make that claim about anything we sell, and it is worth explaining why rather than just declining.
DR is Ahrefs’ own score, computed from Ahrefs’ own crawl, by a model nobody outside Ahrefs can see. Directory links also have sharply diminishing returns: the first few are the cheapest links a new product will ever get, and the fiftieth is not like the fifth. Anyone promising a number is promising something they do not control.
So we chart your DR daily, for free, and put it next to the things that are actually observable: which listings went live, which links are dofollow, which pages are indexable, which ones stopped being any of those. Why we refuse the “how many links to DR 20” question is its own page.
How they fit together
Launch on TinyLaunch. Record the submission, and paste the listing URL when it shows up. From then on the page gets read on a schedule: the link is there or it is not, its rel says what it says, the page is indexable or it has quietly turned noindex, and if any of that changes you hear about it. If you did buy the 110-directory service, that is precisely the case where tracking earns its keep, because a report of 110 submissions and a list of the links that actually exist are very different documents.
Questions people actually ask
Is ShipDR an alternative to TinyLaunch?
No, and it is worth being plain about it. TinyLaunch is a place to launch: you submit a product, it appears on their site, and you may earn a badge and a backlink. ShipDR does not list products at all. It tracks the submissions you make to places like TinyLaunch and verifies whether each one actually produced a live link. They sit at different points of the same job, so the realistic answer for most makers is both, not either.
Does TinyLaunch give a dofollow backlink?
Their free tier states the badge and the backlink go to top-ranking launches, and their $39 Premium Launch advertises a guaranteed high authority backlink. We have not bought Premium, so we have no reading on that lane. On the ordinary free queue we do have data: two of our own listings came back nofollow when our checker read the page, on pages that were otherwise indexable. That is two listings on one lane, not a verdict on the platform, and you can check any TinyLaunch listing yourself with our free dofollow checker rather than taking our word for it.
What does the $279 submission service actually include?
Their pricing page says submission to 110 directories plus a submission report, targeted by product category. That is what it delivers and it is delivered honestly. What no submission service can include, theirs or anyone else’s, is the listing itself: whether a directory publishes you, how long it takes, whether the link it gives you is dofollow and whether the page carrying it can be indexed are all the directory’s decisions, made after the form is submitted.
So is the submission service worth it?
That depends on what your time is worth, and it is a real trade: 110 forms is a genuinely tedious week. What it does not buy is certainty about the outcome, which is why the report at the end lists submissions rather than links. If you buy it, the useful next step is to track those submissions so the report becomes a set of verified links or a list of things to chase.
Will submitting to 110 directories raise my Domain Rating?
Nobody can tell you that, and we will not. DR is Ahrefs’ own model computed from their own crawl, and no tool, ours included, controls what it does. What is knowable is everything underneath it: whether each listing went live, whether its link is dofollow, whether the page is indexable and whether it is still there next month. We report those because they are observable, and we chart DR beside them as context rather than as a promise.
How much does ShipDR cost compared to TinyLaunch?
Adding a website and charting its Domain Rating is free with no card. The backlink engine, which is the submission tracking and verification, is $10 once per website with no subscription. That is not a like-for-like number against TinyLaunch’s $279, because the two buy different things: theirs is the labour of submitting, ours is knowing what came of it.
Can I use ShipDR to track a TinyLaunch listing?
Yes, and it is the ordinary case. Record the submission, paste the listing URL when it appears, and the checker reads that page on a schedule: whether your link is still on it, what its rel says, whether the page has turned noindex, and whether robots.txt still allows Google to fetch it. If any of those changes you get told, which is the part that matters months later when nobody is looking.
Submitting is the easy half. Knowing it worked is the half nobody does.
ShipDR tracks every directory submission you make, fetches each listing on a schedule, and reports whether the link is live, dofollow and on a page search engines can read. Adding a website and charting its DR is free; the engine is $10 once, per website, no subscription.
- Every listing rechecked on a schedule, not once
- Live, dofollow and indexable, read from the page itself
- Told the day a backlink drops or flips
Adding a website and charting its Domain Rating is free, no card. The backlink engine is $10 once, per website, with no subscription.