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Rank 69 · BLP 54

Awwwards

Juried site of the day. Prestige, not a user pipeline — unless you sell to designers.

CommunitiesAlways onFounded 2009Reviewed September 2026

Awwwards is a design award. You pay to be judged. Sites of the Day get traffic from designers and a lasting badge. Most submissions do not win. That is the product.

Submit only if the marketing site is actually exceptional and you sell to people who care about that. A CRUD SaaS with a template landing page is wasting the fee.

A room, not a submit form

Should you launch on Awwwards?

Launch here only if you can take the local rules and stay in the thread.

Awwwards rewards presence more than a scheduled card. A cold account will not invent a crowd here. Post only if you already belong, or pick a fairer board first. Audience: Designers, agencies, and people who collect SOTD screenshots.

Do not stack this with another comment-heavy launch on the same morning. Show HN, Reddit, X, and Product Hunt all want the same hours.

When: A different day from Product Hunt. After the one-liner has survived a smaller room.

Launch here if

  • Genuinely exceptional marketing sites
  • Agencies and design tools
  • A prestige backlink if you win

Skip if

  • Average SaaS landing pages
  • Budgeting the fee as ‘launch traffic’
  • Products without a public site worth judging

This page answers Awwwards only. For an ordered stack by stage, buyer, and goal, use the shortlist recommender or the four-week sequence.

Launch window

When to show up

Always on — no hunter clock

List when the facts are true. Do not treat this as launch day. A quiet afternoon is the right time.

What money buys

Free vs paid

Listed cost

Paid submission to the jury (confirm current fee)

High-quality if honored; submission itself is not the prize. Winner pages persist for years.

Paid options

See vendor

The submission is the paid option; honors are editorial

Ship kit

Do this before you press submit on Awwwards.

  1. 01Post as a member, not a cold link dump
  2. 02One comment-heavy room per morning
  3. 03Stay in the thread until the questions stop
  4. 04Same one-liner you used on the last board

Stack with

Same launch month, different job — not a second hunter day.

Timing

Awwwards does not compete for launch-day hours. Do it on a quiet afternoon so the hunter morning stays free.

How to submit

  1. 01

    Only submit if the site is the product

    Motion, craft, originality. Read recent Sites of the Day before you pay.

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Sources and limits

Traffic and authority figures are planning ranges from public 2025–2026 reports, not platform-official guarantees. Scores last reviewed September 2026. Rules and prices change — confirm on the vendor site before you pay.