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Weekly product launch platform and directory for startups and indie makers

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LaunchStall scores 73 of 100: 41 of the 50 base points, 33 of the 50 agent-layer points, no penalties.

Earned

41 of the 50 base points above the line, 33 of the 50 agent-layer points below it.

73

3 prompts away

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19

Taken back

Earned, then taken back by penalties.

1

Still open

Behind the checks below, with prompts in Pro.

7
Penalties0
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Through a bot’s eyes

“LaunchStall is a weekly product launch platform and directory for indie makers, startups, and SaaS founders featuring limited launch slots, leaderboards, and permanent product pages.”

Simulated from the response GoodForBotsBot received on , not a live answer from any AI assistant.

What it can read, and what stays hidden →

What a bot can read

A language model reading this input learns about a weekly product launch platform designed for indie makers and startups. The homepage and llms.txt provide details on how the platform works, including weekly launch editions, voting leaderboards, streak rewards, and free domain tools like availability and rating checkers. The llms.txt file significantly expands the context by providing explicit links to pricing, archives, guidelines, software alternatives, and a catalog of recent and current week launches. JSON-LD data reinforces the site identity as an organization focused on product launches and startup directories. Pricing details mentioned include free tiers alongside premium options and advertising costs starting from specific dollar amounts.

What is LaunchStall?

LaunchStall is a weekly product launch platform and directory built for indie makers, startups, and SaaS founders. It operates similarly to other discovery sites by offering limited weekly launch slots, an upvote leaderboard, and permanent product pages with SEO optimization.

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Designed for creators seeking exposure, the site features weekly editions starting every Monday, community streaks, and free tools such as domain availability and rating checkers. Additionally, the platform provides advertising options and structured categorization for launched products.

3 prompts, 20 points

For Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. The score moves after the next scan.

+10score from 73 to 83

Serve Markdown when asked for it

None of the 4 pages read pass. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.

Read prompt

+5score from 83 to 88

Mark up content so a reader can find it

None of the 4 pages read pass fully; 4 partly. The homepage is partly structured: The outline jumps from h1 to h3, which the standard forbids.

Read prompt

+4.2score from 88 to 93

Publish a sitemap that parses

robots.txt names a sitemap, but it could not be read (robots.txt unavailable: Cannot read robots.txt for http://localhost:3800: port 3800 is not a web port.).

Read prompt

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13 more prompts in Pro

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Ready-made files

Pro drafts these for this site.

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A ready-made llms.txt and robots.txt

Pro drafts both files for LaunchStall from its scan, keeps only links and rules our parsers can verify, and hands them over ready to review and publish. It never changes the score.

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Readable base

40.8 / 50

Passes.

3.3 of 3.3 points.

robots.txt is valid, with 2 user-agent groups.

Half passes.

4.2 of 8.3 points.

robots.txt names a sitemap, but it could not be read (robots.txt unavailable: Cannot read robots.txt for http://localhost:3800: port 3800 is not a web port.).

Passes.

8.3 of 8.3 points.

All 4 pages read pass. The homepage describes itself to machines as Organization, WebSite, SearchAction in valid schema.org JSON-LD.

Half passes.

5 of 10 points.

None of the 4 pages read pass fully; 4 partly. The homepage is partly structured: The outline jumps from h1 to h3, which the standard forbids.

Passes.

8.3 of 8.3 points.

33 of 33 assessed homepage navigation links expose usable destinations.

Passes.

4.2 of 4.2 points.

306 of 306 assessed homepage links and buttons have a nonempty accessible name.

Passes.

2.5 of 2.5 points.

2 of 2 assessed homepage form fields meet the static naming and field-semantics checks.

Passes.

2.5 of 2.5 points.

316 of 316 assessed homepage controls and role declarations meet the static role, state and relationship checks.

Passes.

1.7 of 1.7 points.

All 4 pages read pass. The homepage declares itself as its canonical URL.

Agent layer

32.5 / 50

Passes.

11.3 of 11.3 points.

/llms.txt is well formed: 41 links across 5 sections.

Half passes.

3.8 of 7.5 points.

/llms.txt is partly descriptive: only 56% of links carry a description.

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Passes.

12.5 of 12.5 points.

/llms-full.txt serves the site's content as markdown (23 KB).

Fails.

0 of 10 points.

None of the 4 pages read pass. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.

Passes.

5 of 5 points.

States a position on 14 AI crawlers, across 3 purposes (training, search, user-fetch).

Fails.

0 of 2.5 points.

No usage declaration found in robots.txt or the final successful homepage response header.

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Penalties

− 0

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 15 points.

Our crawler reaches the page without being challenged.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 20 points.

Nothing on the homepage tells a crawler to skip it or to withhold its snippet.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 25 points.

The captured homepage HTML contains 362 content words; completeness is not assessed.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 25 points.

robots.txt allows every known search and user-fetch crawler to reach the homepage.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 10 points.

The homepage is served over HTTPS and returns HTTP 200.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 3 points.

The homepage provides both a non-empty title and meta description.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 3 points.

The homepage is reached in 0 redirects.

Passes.

Penalty: 0 of 3 points.

The homepage reached a plain crawler in 266 ms.

Agent capabilities

1 of 11 · no points

Each one found adds +1 to the badge.

Passes.

+1 on the badge.

Publishes an API catalog describing 2 APIs.

Half passes.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

/auth.md is published but links neither OAuth protected-resource nor authorization-server metadata, so an agent cannot discover where to authenticate.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No AI Catalog published, so no MCP server card can be discovered.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No A2A Agent Card at /.well-known/agent-card.json, and none listed in an AI Catalog.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No usable Agent Skills index was found at either well-known path or in the AI Catalog.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No WebMCP declarations were found in the collected HTML or inline scripts. External scripts were not inspected.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No Web Bot Auth key directory at /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No HTTP 402 payment challenge on the homepage or robots.txt, and no manifest at /.well-known/x402.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No ACP discovery declaration established at /.well-known/acp.json.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No UCP discovery declaration established at /.well-known/ucp.

Not applicable.

Adds +1 to the badge when found.

No public AMP discovery declaration established. Private or hidden agents may not advertise one to our crawler.

Access & usage policy

Who can read this page, and for what purpose?

GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request. No indexing restriction was observed in the supported homepage directives.

Sampled URL: https://launchstall.com/

Declared crawling rules

No matching refusal for this URL was found for the listed identities.

Sources and scope: declared crawling rules
  • Declared allow · Scan admission

    • GoodForBotsBot/1.0 (+https://goodforbots.com/bot)

    The recorded robots admission decision allowed our crawler to proceed.

    GoodForBotsBot admission along the homepage request chain

    https://launchstall.com/

    robots.txt is present and valid

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • goodforbotsbot (Site diagnostics)
    • * (Default robots group)
    • mistralai-index (ai-search)
    • kimi-searchbot (ai-search)
    • amzn-searchbot (ai-search)
    • meta-webindexer (ai-search)
    • exasearchbot (ai-search)
    • aiwebindex (ai-search)
    • shapbot (ai-search)
    • yandexadditional (ai-search)
    • yandexadditionalbot (ai-search)
    • mistralai-training (ai-training)
    • kimibot (ai-training)
    • ai2bot (Unknown)
    • webzio-extended (ai-training)
    • kimi-user (user-fetch)
    • amzn-user (user-fetch)
    • diffbot-user (user-fetch)
    • firecrawlagent (extraction)
    • webzio (extraction)
    • meta-externalfetcher (user-fetch, agent)
    • amazonbot (ai-training, product-improvement)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://launchstall.com/

    https://launchstall.com/robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

  • Declared allow · robots.txt

    • oai-searchbot (ai-search)
    • claude-searchbot (ai-search)
    • perplexitybot (ai-search)
    • duckassistbot (ai-search)
    • gptbot (ai-training)
    • claudebot (ai-training)
    • applebot-extended (ai-training)
    • chatgpt-user (user-fetch)
    • claude-user (user-fetch)
    • perplexity-user (user-fetch)
    • mistralai-user (user-fetch)
    • google-extended (ai-training, grounding)
    • meta-externalagent (ai-training, product-improvement)
    • ccbot (open-dataset, ai-training)
    • googlebot (search)
    • bingbot (search)
    • applebot (search, ai-training)
    • cohere-ai (Unknown)

    No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group. This is a declaration, not an access test.

    Acquisition of https://launchstall.com/

    https://launchstall.com/robots.txt

    User-agent: googlebot
    User-agent: google-extended
    User-agent: bingbot
    User-agent: gptbot
    User-agent: oai-searchbot
    User-agent: chatgpt-user
    User-agent: claudebot
    User-agent: claude-user
    User-agent: claude-searchbot
    User-agent: perplexitybot
    User-agent: perplexity-user
    User-agent: applebot
    User-agent: applebot-extended
    User-agent: ccbot
    User-agent: duckassistbot
    User-agent: meta-externalagent
    User-agent: mistralai-user
    User-agent: cohere-ai
    allow: /

    robots.txt is present and validStates a position on AI crawlersAllows search and user-fetch crawlers

Observed access

GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request.

Sources and scope: observed access
Coverage and interpretation
  • Crawler coverage includes the registered identities and up to 50 user-agent entries from robots.txt. Source excerpts and detail groups are bounded; omissions are labelled.
  • Observed access describes GoodForBotsBot only. Other crawler entries describe declared rules, not tests of those operators' access.
  • Coverage is the sampled homepage response and collected robots.txt files. No indexing or citation is guaranteed. Usage preferences are declarations, not a legal determination of permission.
  • This explanation adds no points or penalties. Any score effects belong to the linked checks.
  • AIPREF and Content Signals keep their own definitions. AIPREF search can include processing used exclusively for search; training preferences are not a blanket ruling on every search process.

In its category

7th of 32 in Directories & Aggregators

  1. 1SwipeToLaunchswipetolaunch.com
  2. 2SaaS Cubessaascubes.com
  3. 7LaunchStall · this reportlaunchstall.com

The prompts above would take LaunchStall to 93, 2nd in its category.

To the prompts ↑

Category average 59. The percentile appears once the catalogue holds a few hundred sites.

Scanned

Site profile

Login
Detected
A sign-in button in the page header
API
Detected
An API catalog
Commerce
Not established

It decides which conditional checks apply. “Not established” means no proof in what we read, not proof of absence.

Scan details

Every scan is kept. Pro draws the history as a chart →

Scanned
31 Oct 2026
Rubric
0.9.0
Requests
24
Fetched
4.5 MB
Took
14.8 s
Homepage
266 ms · direct
Pages read
4
robots.txt
allowed
Which pages the scan read

The homepage and up to three pages from the sitemap and homepage links. Structured data, page structure, Markdown negotiation and typed links check each page read and take the median page; other checks read the homepage.

  • Homepagealways read
  • /products/coinsyncerproduct · linked from the homepage · read
  • /docs/clidocumentation · linked from the homepage · read
  • /categoriescollection · linked from the homepage · read

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