Terms of service

What Just Launch is

A public board where people commit to a launch date for their product, up to 30 days ahead, and an automated checker verifies whether the product is online when the timer ends.

Your commitment is public and permanent

• Once committed, the URL cannot be changed. The date can be moved earlier, never later; every move is public.
• Dates beyond 30 days (up to 180) are a paid option. The fee buys the longer window, nothing else: the commitment, the check and the public result are the same. It is not refunded if you abandon.
• The launch URL is hidden on every commitment until the timer ends; the site's icon and the age of its domain are shown. You may also hide the name and the description. When the timer ends, everything is public, whatever the result.
• Commitments cannot be deleted. You can abandon one; abandoning is public too.
• The result (shipped, missed, abandoned) stays on your public profile.

Verification

The checker's classification is a label with evidence, not a verdict. We show the raw signals and screenshots, and you can contest a check from your project page for manual review.

What you may not submit

Scams, phishing, malware, adult content, impersonation, content that infringes rights, or anything illegal.

Moderation

We may suspend or remove any entry at our sole discretion, including after reports. Suspended entries are hidden from the public.

Guest Launches

Guest Launch entries cite public announcements by third parties with their source. They are not commitments made on this platform by those parties.

Sponsors

A clock slot is a paid placement: a row inside the launch list, always labelled Sponsored and always showing what was paid. You buy the time left on a slot, at the price shown when you check out, and the row goes up as soon as the payment lands and comes down at the slot's deadline. There is no renewal. Payment goes through Dodo Payments, our merchant of record, who invoices you.

We may take a row down at any time if it breaks these terms or we simply judge it wrong for the site, and we refund the payment in full when we do. After the deadline we may leave a sold row up a little longer, marked OVERTIME: that time is a bonus at our discretion, it is not part of what you bought and it is never guaranteed. Sponsors have no influence on checks, results or the order of launches, and we don't endorse what they sell.

A sponsored excuse is the other paid placement: one slot under one numbered excuse on the excuses page, where your line is the punchline of that excuse. Nineteen of the excuses have one; the rest never will. You buy one period at a time, by the month, by the year or once and for good, at the price shown; there is no renewal and nothing is ever charged unless you buy it. Only one period can be booked ahead of the one running, and whoever pays first gets it: being the current sponsor is a head start, not a right.

The excuse itself is never edited, never softened and never for sale: only the line under it is yours. We remove punchlines that attack people or mislead, and we may take a slot down at any time if it breaks these terms or we judge it wrong for the site; when we do, we refund the part of the period you did not get. A sponsor may change their line, their link and their icon through the private link we email them, at any time during their period.

No warranty

The service is provided as is, without guarantees of availability or accuracy of the checks.