# Nick Launches

> Nick Launches helps developers build and launch AI products faster with practical tutorials, AI tool reviews, launch directory walkthroughs, and product launches.

## Site sections

- [Home](https://nicklaunches.com/): live product launches and weekly rankings
- [Blog](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/): tutorials, AI tooling reviews, launch playbooks
- [Products](https://nicklaunches.com/products/): every product launched on Nick Launches
- [Launch directories](https://nicklaunches.com/tools/launch-directories/): vetted directories to submit your product
- [Dev resources](https://nicklaunches.com/resources/dev-resources/): tools, templates, and references for builders
- [Tool reviews](https://nicklaunches.com/reviews/): scored reviews of builder tools, with sponsored ones labelled
- [About](https://nicklaunches.com/about/): who runs the site and why it exists

## For agents and developers

Nick Launches is reachable programmatically. Reads are anonymous. Writes need a connection, which a human approves in a browser, and an agent can open a launch draft but can never publish, pay, or pick a launch week.

- [API and MCP](https://nicklaunches.com/api-mcp/): what the agent surface is and how to connect
- [Documentation](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/): full reference for the MCP tools and the REST API
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP): https://nicklaunches.com/api/mcp/
- REST API base: https://nicklaunches.com/api/v1/
- OpenAPI spec: https://nicklaunches.com/api/v1/openapi.json

## Recent blog posts

- [Week 15 Recap: A Bigger Board, Thinner Votes and a Product Hunt Launch That Came 13th](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-15-recap-august-16-2026/): The featured board nearly doubled to 22 launches while total upvotes stayed flat, so a free listing on 16 votes finished ahead of eighteen of them. Week 15 on Nick Launches, plus an honest account of our Product Hunt day.
- [Nobody Signed Up After Launch: How to Tell If It's Distribution or the Idea](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/nobody-signed-up-after-launch-distribution-or-idea/): Your launch got no signups. Four checks, in order, to work out whether nobody found it or nobody wanted it, and what to do about each.
- [Launching Is Not One Day](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/launching-is-not-one-day/): A guest post on what happens after launch day: writing every submission answer once, posting URLs you can measure, and checking which directory listings actually link back.
- [AI Assistants Read PeerPush 5 Million Times a Month. Here Is What They Look For in a Product.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/peerpush-ai-assistants-product-visibility/): What AI assistants extract from product pages, why they get small products wrong, and the steps that make any product readable by AI. From PeerPush's crawler data.
- [Where to Launch Your Startup in 2026: 5 Platforms and What Each One Is Actually For](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/where-to-launch-your-startup-2026/): Where to launch your startup in 2026, compared honestly: four launch venues and one catalog that also measures whether anyone noticed. With current DR data and the do-follow conditions each one buries.
- [Week 14 Recap: Real Feedback, Proof Over Claims and a Pixel-Art Solar System](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-14-recap-august-09-2026/): A free launch outranked twelve of the thirteen featured. A pixel-art solar system took #2 on Product Hunt and its buyers ignored the pricing model it was built around. Week 14 on Nick Launches, plus 20% off everything until midnight.
- [Week 13 Recap: AI Visibility Audits, Traffic Verification and Terminal Testing](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-13-recap-august-02-2026/): Your weekly roundup of fresh launches shaping how we work and build: the full 13-launch featured board led by Free AI Website Audit, the free weekly winners, 855 upvotes cast, the builders to watch, and three things that shipped on Nick Launches this week.
- [How to audit your site's AI visibility with Claude Code and MCP](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/ai-visibility-audit-claude-code-mcp/): A real walkthrough of auditing a site's AI visibility from the terminal: measuring mentions in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode over MCP, and acting on what came back.
- [Week 12 Recap: Website Scanners, WordPress Speed Fixes and AI Terminal Agents](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-12-recap-july-26-2026/): Your weekly roundup of fresh launches shaping how we work and build: the full 17-launch featured board led by FreeScan.app, the free weekly winners, 881 upvotes cast, the builders to watch, and everything new on Nick Launches this week.
- [Week 11 Recap: Free Site Audits, Tweets to Markdown and Agent-Built MVPs](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-11-recap-july-19-2026/): Your weekly roundup of fresh launches shaping how we work and build: the full 17-launch featured board led by BetterDB, the free weekly winners, 919 upvotes cast, and the builders to watch.
- [Week 10 Recap: The backlink playbook.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-10-recap-july-12-2026/): Week ten on Nick Launches: 819 live products, domain rating at 63, and the exact backlink playbook that got it there — plus three prospecting tools worth bookmarking.
- [Week 9 Recap: Small traffic, high intent.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-9-recap-july-05-2026/): Week nine on Nick Launches: a quieter launch week, 744 live products, and domain rating at 61. Fewer clicks came in, but the ones that did stayed. AI search sends less traffic and better traffic, and that split is the whole story.
- [Week 8 Recap: Shipping is the easy part.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-8-recap-june-28-2026/): Week eight on Nick Launches: 667 live products, domain rating at 60, and a timeline that kept circling one truth all week. Shipping got easy. Getting found is the job now, and nobody is teaching that part.
- [Week 7 Recap: Cool, needed, found.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-7-recap-june-21-2026/): Week seven on Nick Launches: 79 launches, domain rating at 57, and a timeline that circled one gap all week. You can build something cool, even something needed, and still get zero users because nobody found it.
- [Week 6 Recap: How to rank a brand-new product.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-6-recap-june-14-2026/): Week six on Nick Launches: 462 live products, 977 newsletter subscribers, and a timeline that spent the whole week on one question, how do you get a brand-new product found in 2026 with SEO and GEO together.
- [Week 5 Recap: You'll never feel ready.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-5-recap-june-07-2026/): Week five on Nick Launches: 364 live products, 766 newsletter subscribers, and a timeline that spent the whole week arguing about one thing, when a product is actually ready to launch.
- [Week 4 Recap: Coding got cheap. Distribution didn't.](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-4-recap-may-31-2026/): Week four on Nick Launches: a quieter directory week, traffic still compounding, and a timeline full of founders telling us where they're actually stuck, and what they shipped.
- [Week 3 Recap: We asked founders what actually moves a launch](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-3-recap-may-24-2026/): Week three on Nick Launches: the build came together (Launch Guides, a builder toolkit, a faster static site), and founders told us what really moves a launch.
- [Week 2 Recap: What shipped on Nick Launches](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-2-recap-may-17-2026/): Week two on Nick Launches: 158 live products, 253 signups, 223 newsletter subs, and 85 launches that went live this week.
- [Launching directory submissions: get listed on 30+, 60+, or 100+ sites](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/launching-directory-submissions-addon/): We now do the manual directory submission grind for you. Add it to any launch, or attach it to a product you already shipped. 20% off with DIRECTORY20 through May 31.
- [Week 1 Recap: What shipped on Nick Launches](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/week-1-recap-may-10-2026/): First week of Nick Launches: 76 live products, 138 signups, 128 newsletter subs, the Find Users tool, and a new self-host guide for Hermes Agent.
- [7 Open-Source AI Agent Frameworks Worth Testing in 2026](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/open-source-ai-agent-frameworks-2026/): A hands-on tour of 7 open-source AI agent frameworks: Agent Zero, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, ZeroClaw, NanoClaw, Evolver, EvoAgentX. What each one does and when to pick it.
- [AI News Digest: Salesforce Headless 360, Codex enterprise, GPT-Rosalind](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/ai-news-april-21-2026-openai-codex-enterprise-gpt-rosalind-headless-ai-willison/): April 21, 2026 AI digest: Salesforce drops 'Headless 360' with no browser required, plus OpenAI scales Codex to enterprises and launches GPT-Rosalind for life sciences.
- [AI News Digest: Opus 4.7 costs ~40% more, llm-openrouter, Datasette in Sheets](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/ai-news-april-20-2026-llm-openrouter-datasette-claude-token-counter-openai-hyatt/): April 20, 2026 AI digest: Claude Opus 4.7's new tokenizer inflates tokens by 1.0x to 1.35x at the same price, llm-openrouter 0.6 ships a refresh command, and Datasette lands in Google Sheets.
- [AI News Digest: KIMI K2.6 Incoming, Qwen 3.6 on M5 Max, Claude System Prompts Leaked](https://nicklaunches.com/blog/ai-news-april-19-2026-kimi-k2.6-qwen-m5-max-claude-system-prompts-chatgpt-diagnosis/): April 19, 2026 AI news: KIMI K2.6 announced, Qwen 3.6 rivals Claude on M5 Max, Simon Willison diffs Claude system prompts, and ChatGPT diagnoses a rare disorder.

## Dev resources

- [Free Coding Agent with NVIDIA Nemotron: Self-Host on a Cheap VPS](https://nicklaunches.com/resources/dev-resources/free-coding-agent-nvidia-nemotron-self-host-guide/): Run a free cloud coding agent using NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super (120B) and an open-source agent like OpenCode. Step-by-step setup on Hetzner, Netcup, or Contabo for under €5 a month.
- [Self-Host Hermes Agent on a Hetzner VPS: A Practical Guide](https://nicklaunches.com/resources/dev-resources/hermes-agent-self-host-hetzner-vps-guide/): Run Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent 24/7 on a €5 Hetzner VPS. Step-by-step setup with Telegram integration, systemd persistence, and security hardening.

## Tool reviews

- [Wysera Review: One AI That Posts, Answers, and Follows Up](https://nicklaunches.com/reviews/wysera-review/): Wysera bundles social posting, a CRM, and client follow-up behind a single AI that drafts and waits for your approval. Here is what it does well, what it hides, and who should skip it. (4/5, sponsored placement)

## Documentation pages

Each page also has a raw markdown mirror, linked second, which is the cheaper one to read.

- [Introduction](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/): Search the Nick Launches catalog, audit a site before it launches, and open a launch draft, from an agent or from curl. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/index/)
- [Quickstart](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/quickstart/): Add the MCP server to your agent, run an anonymous search, then approve a connection and open your first launch draft. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/quickstart/)
- [Authentication](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/authentication/): There are no API keys to create. The first write returns a one time approval link, you click it once, and the agent is bound to your account. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/authentication/)
- [Install](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/install/): Add the Nick Launches MCP server to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/install/)
- [Tools](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/): The seven tools the Nick Launches MCP server exposes, what each one needs, and what it returns. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/)
- [search_products](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/search-products/): Plain language search across every product that has already launched on Nick Launches. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/search-products/)
- [get_product](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/get-product/): The full listing for one product, by slug. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/get-product/)
- [check_launch_readiness](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/check-launch-readiness/): A preflight audit of any URL. Scores the site, names every reason a listing would be sent back, and hands back the fix. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/check-launch-readiness/)
- [submit_product](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/submit-product/): Opens a launch draft from a URL. It cannot publish, pick a plan, pick a week, or pay. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/submit-product/)
- [list_launch_directories](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/list-launch-directories/): The catalog of launch directories Nick Launches tracks, for planning a submission campaign. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/list-launch-directories/)
- [get_my_launches](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/mcp/tools/get-my-launches/): Status, plan, requested week, upvotes and impressions for every launch on your account. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/mcp/tools/get-my-launches/)
- [Overview](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/api/overview/): Base URL, versioning, content types, authentication and the full endpoint list for the Nick Launches REST API. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/api/overview/)
- [Products](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/api/products/): Search the catalog and read a single listing over HTTP. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/api/products/)
- [Launch readiness](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/api/launch-readiness/): Audit any URL over HTTP before you submit it. Same audit as the MCP tool. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/api/launch-readiness/)
- [Submissions](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/api/submissions/): Create a launch draft over HTTP. It cannot publish, pick a plan, pick a week, or pay. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/api/submissions/)
- [Rate limits](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/rate-limits/): What is metered, how it is counted, and what to do when you hit a limit. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/rate-limits/)
- [Errors](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/errors/): One error vocabulary across MCP and REST, with what each code means and what to do about it. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/errors/)
- [Roadmap](https://nicklaunches.com/docs/roadmap/): The MCP server is the first piece of a builder toolkit, not a submit endpoint. Here is what lands next. (raw: https://nicklaunches.com/api/docs/roadmap/)