Rank 43 · BLP 61
Lede Press
A daily public edition of product stories, with one contextual product link.
Lede Press is a daily index of product stories, not a logo directory and not a launch-day leaderboard. Each live page names the product, says who it is for, and contains one product link in a sentence. On the reciprocal free plan and the $29 plan that anchor is dofollow: no nofollow, sponsored, or ugc. The free nofollow plan uses rel=nofollow and does not ask for a site credit.
Projects are free. One reciprocal page and one nofollow page are allowed per project. Reciprocal and nofollow share five free slots a day at 08:00 UTC; a page that misses the day’s five waits in the queue. A $29 page skips that queue, goes live the day it is ready, and adds an SEO, AEO, and GEO edit, FAQ schema, Article and product structured data, an llms.txt listing, a richer Markdown twin, a custom image, a Pinterest pin, IndexNow, and up to three homepage relaunches. No site credit is required on the $29 plan.
The publisher’s own pricing page says SEO agencies commonly charge $500 to $1,000 for coverage on a site you do not run, and it also says the domain rating of ledepress.com is 0. Treat the $29 as the price of a public article you can open the same day, not as a ranking guarantee. Inspect the live anchor after publish. The longer comparison is /get-editorial-backlinks.
Evergreen listing
Should you launch on Lede Press?
List here. Do not treat Lede Press as launch day.
Lede Press is a catalog page, not a hunter room. There is no 18-hour comment thread to win. The value is a crawlable URL, a possible backlink (Dofollow on the reciprocal free plan and the $29 plan. One link in the article. A separate free plan is not followed), and showing up when someone — or an assistant — compares tools.
Do this on a quiet afternoon, with the same one-liner you used on AlternativeTo and your homepage. Paying for a featured slot before the free listing exists is usually backwards.
When: Any week. Best in week 0–1 so the page exists before humans arrive from a board.
Launch here if
- A daily-edition write-up that explains the product in plain language
- A dofollow contextual link at $0 with a site credit, or $29 with no credit
- Replacing an opaque $500 agency guest post with a URL you can open
Skip if
- Buying a domain-rating number — the publisher states DR 0
- A Product Hunt-sized launch crowd
- A comparison shortlist (Listed Press) or a long buyer explainer (Piece Press)
This page answers Lede Press 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
Free reciprocal or free nofollow, one each per project
Dofollow on the reciprocal free plan and the $29 plan. One link in the article. A separate free plan is not followed. Permanent edition page after it leaves the day’s index.
Paid options
See vendor
$29 per page, unlimited: dofollow, SEO/AEO/GEO edit, schema, llms.txt, pin, IndexNow, up to 3 relaunches
Ship kit
Do this before you press submit on Lede Press.
- 01Name, category, and pricing identical to your own site
- 02One accurate screenshot
- 03Do this on a quiet afternoon — it is not launch day
- 04No invented user counts; assistants copy them
Stack with
Same launch month, different job — not a second hunter day.
Timing
Lede Press does not compete for launch-day hours. Do it on a quiet afternoon so the hunter morning stays free.
Ask AI
Opens your assistant with a ready-made prompt about Lede Press
How to submit
01
Create a free project
The project is the product. Plans are chosen per page, not as a subscription you have to keep.
02
Pick the link attribute you actually want
Reciprocal free is dofollow and needs a credit to ledepress.com while the page is live. A text link is enough; the badge is optional. Nofollow is free and needs no credit. $29 is dofollow, unlimited, and skips the five-a-day queue.
03
Open the live URL and inspect the anchor
The record is the published page. Confirm rel matches the plan. A screenshot of the pricing table is not the link.
Tips
- Use Lede when you want a daily-edition story. Use Hed Press when the opening has to carry who, what, and for whom.
- Do not staff this as launch morning. Product Hunt and Show HN are different jobs.
- The $29 pass is editing and distribution. It is not a promise that Google or an answer engine will cite the page.
Questions people ask
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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.