How to Submit Your Product to ComingUp, and Why the Image Is Not Optional
ComingUp is a free daily launch board. You fill one form at /submit, choose the date your product goes up, and from that date it sits in that day's ranking, ordered by votes. One product per account per day, and there is no payment step anywhere in it.
The form marks two fields optional, and one of them is the whole listing. The 5,633 records that carry an image are exactly the ones the board shows, and the 1,334 that carry none are exactly the ones it does not, out of 6,967 in the catalog. Their pages still exist and stay indexable. They are simply not on the homepage and not on their own day page.
The label reads Images and the line under it reads "Add screenshots or images of your product (optional)". It is the field that puts you on the board. The endpoints behind the homepage and the day pages return only listings that have one, and the code that renders those lists in the browser then loads each first image and keeps only the ones that resolve. So an image hotlinked from somewhere you do not control takes the card with it the day it stops answering.
ComingUp submission at a glance
| Feature | ComingUp |
|---|---|
| What it is | A daily launch board, ranked by votes |
| Where | /submit, signed in |
| Account | Email and a 6-digit code, or SideProjectors |
| The form | 8 fields, 6 marked required |
| The optional one that counts | Images |
| Cost | Free, no paid tier |
| Rate limit | One product per account per day |
| Launch day | You pick it, today or later |
| Listings a day | 58, median of the last 30 |
| Top of the day | 12 to 16 votes, on all 30 |
| Voting | An account, 24 hours old |
| Your link | One nofollow anchor, 311 of 320 (9 had no URL) |
| Your page | index, follow with Product schema |
| On the board | 5,633 with an image, 0 without |
| Domain | DR 0 on Ahrefs |
Per comingup.io, its robots.txt, its public JSON endpoints, the deployed Vue bundle that renders its forms and every listing page sampled below, read on 20 August 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker; no second provider was queried. The submit form's fields, labels, placeholders, character caps, required markers and validation strings are read from the deployed chunk that renders it at /submit, and match the owner's screenshot of the live signed-in form. The site is Laravel behind Cloudflare: its browse surface (/, /days, /day/{date}, /p/{slug}, /tag/{tag}, /category/{slug}, /u/{username}) is server-rendered, while /submit, /auth and /admin are a Vue single-page app. Google AdSense (ca-pub-6852353067012885) and GA4 (G-07HZ8LV5MB) run on every page. robots.txt is two lines, User-agent: * and an empty Disallow, and names no sitemap; /sitemap.xml answers HTTP 500 with a Laravel Server Error page and /llms.txt answers 404. The sign-up screen links Terms and Privacy Policy, and both URLs return the site's own Page Not Found. The catalog census is complete rather than sampled: /product/data?id= was fetched for ids 1 to 9,925 with no errors, returning 6,967 records, 6,906 of them status live and 61 status pending. Separately /products?date= was fetched for all 273 dates from 1 January to 30 September 2026 with no errors, returning 5,633 records across 182 populated days, and SSR day pages were counted against it on three dates (99, 50 and 48 listings, matching exactly). The 5,633 the day endpoints return are precisely the 5,633 records carrying at least one image; the 1,334 with an empty images array, 1,320 live and 14 pending, appear on no day page. 74 of those 1,334 were then opened directly, the 14 filed through the form plus 60 live records at random: 74 of 74 answer 200, carry the same index, follow robots meta, are their own canonical and emit one Product block, and 74 of 74 are absent from their own category page. None of the homepage's other lists carries one either: /products/top for week and month at limit 50, and the most-commented and recently-added blocks in /products/sidebar, hold no record with an empty images array. Every one of the 6,906 live records carries a data.imported_from value: sideprojectors 4,115, hackernews 1,844, reddit 947; the only 61 without one are the pending records. 6,106 records also carry data.simulated true, and source_id values take the forms sp:, hn: and reddit:. Those 61 are the records filed through the form: all 61 store their description in the block editor's JSON shape (a time value and a blocks array) where all 6,795 imported records with a description store a plain string, and all 61 carry a gravatar.com avatar where the imported records carry api.dicebear.com ones generated from the username. Of the 5,633 the board shows, 3,049 carry a tagline and 2,584 do not, 18 categories are in use with Other the largest at 990, and 8,519 distinct tags appear. Over the last 30 completed days, 21 July to 19 August, the board carried 1,775 listings, a median of 58 a day against a minimum of 31 and a maximum of 99; the top score on each of those 30 days fell between 12 and 16, third place between 11 and 13, the median listing held 8 votes and 547 held none. Across the last eight Saturdays the board carried between 30 and 49 listings a day, while the median for every other weekday sat between 50 and 59. 320 listing pages, a stratified sample of up to 45 per month plus the 47 pending records inside the day-view window, were fetched: 320 of 320 answer 200, carry meta robots index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, are their own canonical and emit exactly one JSON-LD block of type Product; the 311 with a product URL each carry exactly one external anchor, rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" with ?utm_source=comingup.io appended, and the 9 records with no URL carry no outbound anchor at all. The site declares a schema.org SearchAction whose target is https://www.comingup.io?search={search_term_string}, but the parameter does not filter: the homepage returned 173 listings without it and 172 with search=pixtext, and there is no search input anywhere in the markup. Tag pages take the raw tag string, so /tag/lead-generation renders zero listings while /tag/lead%20generation renders 75; /tag/seo renders 83 against the 83 records carrying that tag, and both tag and category pages stop at 100 with no pagination. SideProjectors documents the integration on its own help page under the heading Cross-posting to ComingUp, and comingup.io's only third-party sign-in is Continue with SideProjectors. The domain was registered on 27 December 2019 through Porkbun with a privacy-service registrant, carried unrelated sites in the Internet Archive's 2021 to 2024 captures, and its earliest launch-board record is dated 10 February 2026. Submitator submits here as part of its catalog: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with DR shown, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
How to submit to ComingUp, step by step
- 1
Make the account before launch week, not on the morning
Sign-up takes an email and a password of at least 8 characters with an uppercase, a lowercase, a number and a special character, then a 6-digit code: "We sent you a 6-digit code. Enter it below to complete your registration." There is one alternative, a button reading Continue with SideProjectors, and it is the only third-party sign-in offered.
- 2
Check whether SideProjectors has already listed you
SideProjectors cross-posts its members to ComingUp automatically, in its own words: "Once our team approves your project on SideProjectors, we automatically submit it to ComingUp for you." 4,115 of the catalog's records carry that import marker. ComingUp has no search box, so run a site:comingup.io query on your product name before you spend a submission, because you only get one a day.
- 3
Get the people who will vote for you registered a day early
Votes order the day, and a fresh account cannot cast one: "New accounts can vote after 24 hours." The clock runs from registration, not from your launch, so a group that signs up on launch morning is a group that watches. Send them the sign-up link the night before.
- 4
Write the tagline into 80 characters
The box is capped at 80 with a live counter under it and the placeholder "A short description of what your product does". It is the line printed under your name on the day page, and 2,584 of the 5,633 listings the board shows have none at all, so a written one is most of the difference between a card that says something and a card that says a name.
- 5
Pick the category, then up to five tags, and keep the tags exact
18 categories are on offer and Other is already the biggest at 990 listings, so choose the one a reader would filter by. Tags take one to five and you can type new ones. They matter beyond the card: a tag page carries every listing that holds the tag until it hits 100, which is deep archive for anything specific and a queue for anything broad.
- 6
Put the address you actually want people landing on into Product URL
It becomes the single outbound anchor on your page, with ?utm_source=comingup.io appended and rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" on it. That makes it a referral path rather than a ranking signal, so send it at the page that converts rather than at a bare homepage.
- 7
Upload an image, and host it somewhere permanent
This is the field that decides whether the listing reaches the board at all. Give it a real screenshot rather than a favicon, and put it on a URL you control and will not move, because the board's own rendering drops any listing whose first image fails to load.
- 8
Choose the launch date on purpose
The picker refuses anything before today and accepts any day after it, and the note reads "Your product will appear on the homepage on this date". Saturdays are the thinnest day on the board: a median of 37.5 listings across the last eight, against 50.5 to 58.5 for every other day of the week.
- 9
Press Submit Product, then take the URL to an indexer
The toast reads "Your product has been submitted successfully!" and drops you in My Products, where the listing reopens as Edit Product if you want to change anything. Copy the /p/ URL while you are there: sitemap.xml is down and /days links only 19 day pages, so nobody is going to hand that address to Google for you.
The optional field that decides whether anyone sees you
It is worth saying twice, because the form does not say it once. We pulled every record the site will return, 6,967 of them, and compared them against what the day endpoints hand back, which matched the rendered day pages exactly on the three dates we counted by hand. The split is total: 5,633 records carry at least one image and all 5,633 are on the board; 1,334 carry an empty images array and not one of them appears on the homepage, on its day page or in its category.
It is not a quirk of the imported half either. 61 records in the catalog were filed through the form by a person, which shows in two fields nothing else shares: the description is stored in the block editor's own JSON shape rather than as plain text, and the avatar is a gravatar rather than a generated one. Of those 61, the 47 with an image are on their day pages and the 14 without are on none. We opened 74 of the image-less pages, those 14 plus 60 more at random: every one answers 200, carries the same index, follow robots meta as the rest of the site and emits the same Product block, and not one of the 74 appears on its own category page. That is what makes the field easy to skip. Nothing about the listing looks wrong afterwards.
The day you pick is the launch
There is no queue here and no approval to wait on. The date field will not go back past today, so a listing cannot be backdated, and it will go as far forward as you like: on 20 August, 91 listings were already holding dates between the 21st and the 27th. The day is the one you booked.
After that the listing moves down a fixed set of surfaces rather than disappearing. Today's section on the homepage becomes Yesterday's the next morning, and then the day page at /day/2026-08-19 keeps the whole field with the final order printed on it, indexable and its own canonical. Choosing the date is therefore choosing who you sit beside. Across the last eight weeks Saturday ran to a median of 37.5 listings, against 50.5 to 58.5 for every other day of the week.
What the day's field looks like
Bigger than the vote counts suggest, and almost none of it is filed by hand. The board runs a median of 58 listings a day, from 31 to 99 across the last 30, and of the 5,633 listings it shows, 3,003 are cross-posted from SideProjectors, 1,700 are pulled from Hacker News and 883 from Reddit. Not one of those 2,583 Hacker News and Reddit rows carries a tagline, which is why 2,584 cards on the board show a bare product name, and why the eighty characters you write are worth writing.
The scoreboard is small and remarkably steady. Across the last 30 completed days the winning listing never scored below 12 or above 16, third place never left 11 to 13, the median listing held 8 votes and 547 of those 1,775 listings held none. So the arithmetic of a launch here is a couple of dozen people you can actually reach, all of them registered the day before, aimed at a date you chose.
What the listing gets you
A real page, built the way a page should be. Across the 320 we read, every one was its own canonical, every one carried index, follow in its robots meta and every one emitted a single Product block of JSON-LD carrying the product's name, description, image, page URL and publication date. Your name, tagline, description and tags sit in the server-rendered HTML rather than getting painted in afterwards.
The link is one anchor and it is nofollowed: your address with ?utm_source=comingup.io on the end and rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" beside it, on 311 of the 320 pages we read, the other 9 being records that carry no URL at all. Around it sit the surfaces that keep working after launch day: the day page, a category page and a tag page for each tag you chose, all server-rendered and indexable. Both tag and category listings stop at 100 without paginating, so a precise tag holds your listing for a long time and a crowded one moves on.
Getting it crawled is your job
The pages qualify and the plumbing barely helps them. sitemap.xml answers with a server error, robots.txt is two lines and names no sitemap, and /days links only 19 day pages. The rest of the archive is reachable, but only by chaining back one month at a time: each day page carries that month's calendar and a previous-month link, and nothing else points at it. What is indexed is indexed properly: a search for the site's own name comes back with eight of its listing pages alongside the homepage.
So finish the job yourself. Copy the /p/ URL the moment the listing is live and put it through an indexer, the same way you would with any page you care about on a domain you do not control.
We fill the field they call optional.
An image that loads, a tagline inside 80 characters and a date chosen on purpose rather than left on today. That is this one. The next one wants something else entirely, and you pick all thirty of them yourself.
ComingUp review: is a listing worth it?
Worth a slot on your list, on two conditions you control. Submission is free, the page you get is properly built and indexable, and the ranking is decided by a number of votes small enough that a couple of dozen people you can actually reach will settle it.
The conditions are the image and the date. Upload one that will keep loading, or the listing exists without ever appearing on the board; book a date and have your voters registered before it, because a fresh account cannot vote for 24 hours. The link is a referral path rather than a ranking signal, so point it at the page that converts. Do both and you are in that day's ranking, on a page that keeps working long after the day, for the price of a form.
Upload the image. Book the date.
Free, one product per account per day, eight fields at /submit and six of them required. All 5,633 listings the board shows carry an image and the 1,334 without one appear nowhere on it. Votes order the day and a new account has to wait 24 hours to cast one, so register your people the night before. Every directory we file for you.
FAQ
What is ComingUp?
A free daily launch board at comingup.io. Every listing carries a launch date, the ones sharing a date are ranked against each other by votes, and each gets its own page at /p/{slug}; the ones carrying an image also hold a ranked place on that day's page. The site describes itself as somewhere to "Discover the best new products launching today", and its sign-up screen calls it "the fair product discovery platform".
Is ComingUp free to submit to?
Yes, and nothing on the site offers to make it faster for money: there is no price anywhere in the form, no upgrade beside it and no /pricing page to find one on. What a listing costs you is an account and your one submission for that day.
How do you submit a product to ComingUp?
Sign in, then open /submit. The page is headed Submit a Product and the line under it reads "Share your product with the community. You can submit one product per day." You fill eight fields, six of which are marked required, set the date you want to launch on and press Submit Product. The listing then sits in your My Products list, where you can reopen it as Edit Product and Save Changes.
What does the ComingUp submit form ask for?
Product Name, Tagline, Category, Tags, Product URL and Launch Date carry the red asterisk. Description and Images do not. The tagline is capped at 80 characters with a live counter under the box, Tags takes one to five and lets you type new ones, the category list holds 18 entries and the launch date field will not accept a date before today.
Is the ComingUp Images field really optional?
Only on the form. We pulled every record the site's own endpoints return, 6,967 of them: the 5,633 that carry an image are exactly the listings the board shows, and the 1,334 that carry none are exactly the ones missing from the homepage and from their own day page. We opened 74 of them, and 74 of 74 were missing from their category page too. Upload one, and host it where it will keep loading, because the code that renders the board loads each listing's first image and keeps only the ones that resolve.
How many products can you submit to ComingUp in a day?
One per account. Try a second and the form replaces itself with "You've already submitted a product today. Come back tomorrow to submit another one." Nothing stops you coming back the next day.
Can you schedule a ComingUp launch in advance?
Yes, and it is the point of the form. Launch Date is a date picker whose earliest allowed value is today, so you cannot backdate a listing but you can book any day ahead, and the note under it reads "Your product will appear on the homepage on this date". On 20 August, 91 listings were already holding dates between the 21st and the 27th.
Who can vote on ComingUp, and when?
Anyone with an account that is more than a day old. Voting needs a sign-in, and the homepage tells a new account "New accounts can vote after 24 hours" with a countdown beside it. The clock starts at registration rather than at your launch, so anyone you plan to ask should sign up the day before.
How many votes does it take to top ComingUp?
Fewer than the size of the field suggests. Across the last 30 completed days the winning score never left 12 to 16 and third place never left 11 to 13, while the median listing sat on 8 votes and 547 of those 1,775 listings had none at all. Those 30 days carried 1,775 listings between them, a median of 58 a day.
Does a ComingUp listing link to your site?
Yes, once and nofollowed. 311 of the 320 listing pages we read carry exactly one outbound anchor, pointing at the address you submitted with ?utm_source=comingup.io appended and rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" on it; the other 9 are records that gave no URL, so their pages link out nowhere. So the value here is the page, the day ranking and the referral click rather than the link.
Does a ComingUp listing get indexed?
The page is built for it and the discovery is left to you. All 320 listing pages we fetched answer 200, are their own canonical, carry a robots meta of index, follow and emit a Product block of JSON-LD, and a search for the site's own name returns eight of its listing pages alongside the homepage. But sitemap.xml answers with a server error, robots.txt names no sitemap and the /days page links only 19 day pages, so the reliable move is to take your /p/ URL to an indexer yourself.
Am I already on ComingUp through SideProjectors?
Possibly, and it is worth checking before you spend a submission. SideProjectors runs a cross-post to ComingUp and documents it under the heading "Cross-posting to ComingUp": "Once our team approves your project on SideProjectors, we automatically submit it to ComingUp for you. You don't need to create a separate account or re-enter any details." 4,115 of the 6,967 records in the catalog carry a SideProjectors import marker. ComingUp itself has no search box, so the quick check is a site:comingup.io query on your product name.
How long does ComingUp take to review a submission?
The site publishes no review time anywhere, and the form does not ask you to wait for one: the date you set is the date the listing is scheduled for, and the note under the field reads "Your product will appear on the homepage on this date". Treat that date as your deadline and have the image and the voters in place before it.
Does Submitator submit to ComingUp?
Yes, this one is on our list, and it is a fair illustration of why the list is worth handing to somebody. The field that decides whether you appear is the one marked optional, and the date is a decision rather than a default. Our pricing is one-time rather than monthly: $29 buys 30 directories, $49 buys 60 and $79 buys 100, and you choose them yourself in the dashboard with each DR on the card. A rejection comes back as +1 directory, and there is a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
More submit-to guides.
One form here. Twenty-nine more, each with its own rules.
Thirty directories for $29, one payment, and you pick which thirty in the dashboard, with the DR printed on every card. Here the decisive field is the one marked optional. On the next one it is a logo, and on the one after that a repo nobody told you about.